Why does Game of Thrones have such a large, almost fanatical following? I watched the first seven episodes of season one and I just don't quite get it. A few of the characters are engaging some of the time while the others I do not care for.
What am I missing, anons?
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I don't get it either user. I suspect the show is just a cover to allow normies to watch porn with each other in a subtle way.
>I just don't quite get it
a brain apparently
Why do people care what Captain Butthurt and Snidy Quipstein think?
normies like it for the same reason they like bill nye. they think it's some sort of deep political intrigue epic fantasy when really it's quite simplistic. the only thing that sets it apart is a large budget.
I used to be in the same position as you but recently I've massively changed my mind.
I'd recommend looking into the backstory to have a bit more of an understanding of the world and characters. Comicbookgirl19 on YouTube has an excellent Game of Thrones history series that you should watch.
I would say the show starts getting gret around the 3rd season and the 4th is my personal favourite for various reasons. The show takes it's time with the plot and character development and you're not going to get a good feel of it from the first 7 episodes.
There's a reason it's so insanely popular. No tv show of this scale has ever been attempted before, the work that goes into every single episode without you even noticing is staggering.
Overall it's just very high quality television and you should catch up the the end of season 6 before the new season starts because you won't want to miss out on watching it while it's still on TV.
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butthurt GoT fans BTFO
> the first seven hours of a popular TV series is not long enough to "get it"
It sounds like a waste of time.
It is the highest budget TV show in history. People are fanatical for the same reason they are fanatical about capeshit.
>Comicbookgirl19 really exists and does this.
Do yourself a favour, OP: wait for the hype to die down, possibly a few years after the show has finished and then try again. I've found myself enjoying things more when they're not incessantly and obsessively talked about and overrated.
Until then, find something else to watch. No point forcing yourself to watch more of something you don't particularly like much.
The first season is literally the intro. Nothing happens.
Seasons 2,3 4 and 6 were excellent. 5 was a bit shit.
The production design is insanely good, the characters are fully fleshed out, the plot is interesting, and the writing is good enough. There's no reason to hate on it as much as the autistic virgins on here do.
phew, glad i didn't waste my time with this show then
Based dikkko poster
This. Some people just have to vehemently hate everything popular because it gives them some sort of validation about their taste in things. Most people grow out of it in their late teens but most people who browse this site still have that mindset.
Because my friend, it is usually white males who are the mass following.
They don't understand that there is better kino out there that us coloured people enjoy.
I understand giving a tv show time to find its footing, but I shouldn't have to wait two whole seasons for it to be good.
An example of damage control.
What style of art is this?
I want some for my apartment
Season 1 and 2 are the best ones. If you don't like season 1, then you either won't like the series or you are a normie and will like the even more dumbed down later seasons.
It's mostly contrarianism, which is just autism combined with narcissism.
You could say the same thing about most tv shows. I've said the same about Breaking Bad before to a friend who didn't like the first season much. That's just what happens with tv shows, plots escalate, characters change. For example, a character like Jaime Lannister has changed dramatically over the course of the show. Plus there are like 5 plots going on at the same time. You can't expect them all to move at breakneck speed.
What if you're not contrarian and you simply just couldn't engage with the series?
wtf I thought it's just a pasta
The first season is the best. If you're already not interested, quit now.
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I said "mostly"
thats the plebest opinion ive read today
the reason i hate it is because they killed off all the good characters for shock value. now theyre stuck with a bunch of retards running around. the characters are painfully one-dimensional.
its my favourite show because they killed off all the evil white men and now only strong powerful women are left
female target audience
Finish the first season, you're almost through it. Then decide if you want to start S2.
The game hasnt even nearly started yet. That was all just explaining the rules.
I only watched the first episode. I found it extremely boring and poor, I expected some good heroic fantasy but it looked as bad as Peter Jackson LOTR. The only thing that seems ok is the costumes and sets, what a waste.
By the end of the episode I knew it was just a soft porn TV flick for horny teenager, the sex seems so out of place
this
If you do get into it, quit after season 4
they just love to obsess over every bit of minutia that doesn't fit with the books.
Not that it didn't get bad when they didn't use Martin's source material but their autistic screeching over every line is something to behold.
>ONLY CAT! ONLY CAT!
it's viKANGZ kino for the white man and the white woman .. mixed with SJW elements. its a cultural marxist / middle ages muh fatherland muh allegiances nostalgia cognitive dissonance shitfest.
it's pure unabashed escapism
You are a pleb.
You probably enjoy the works of David Lynch.
Its literally for faggots and women.
I had a gay friend from work obsessed with this shit show and he let me borrow season 1. I got passed the first episode and half of the second before turning it off. The entire time I was thinking to myself "I'd rather be watching the Sopranos"
After I turned GoT off I popped Sopranos in for the 100th time and had a much better time.
I guess it's just the good production values, some pretty decent acting, and a grand fantasy story. Fantasy shit has always been surprisingly popular, but it's generally given a shit budget.
>for shock value
My impression is that it isn't for that, it's just that GRRM honestly feels that more people should die in these sorts of stories, because battles and the like are messy, and people die.
Dropped before season 6 finale.
Dorne is objectively retarded.
The only reason I ever started to watch it is because I was a DnD GM in college and my players annoyed me into watching it. It has quite a few pros. Namely:
>muh realism. They're not afraid to kill off important characters It all goes to shit when you realize the REAL protagonists are all safe and won't be killed.
>muh scale. It's the only fantasy setting I've seen that shows you several aspects of its society: the poor, the clergy, the military etc.
>muh characters. You get a lot of different personalities. Eventually you're bound to find one you like and GRRM will kill him
>muh intro. Dope intro track.
>muh plot twist. It has A LOT of them and they are, for a good part, good.
Then it all went to shit when the hacks took over. If you're going to watch it, stop on S4.
>judging a 6 season long series (unfished) based on the pilot
you know it first got popular after season 3 or so right?
Fucking moron. Kill yourself please.
Here is all you need to know about Game of Thrones. Ten realize the show is tenfold worst than the books.
>the writing is good enough
Except when it isn't. E.g. the sandsnakes, and many other such cases.
>omg HBO showed cocks xD
>because you have no cock :D
>le witty dwarf
>I drink and know things xD
>le "big" battles
>stronk weemyn
I think it's because there's a lot of sex and nudity on the show, I mean, I've heard one of the actors on the show compare GoT to an old 70s German porn movie: huffingtonpost.co.uk
Anyway, I think the Lord of the Rings trilogy is better, because of the action sequences. Although I've been watching some Game of Thrones lately, but on Youtube, and only for the violent battles and action scenes. I don't watch Game of Thrones on television or watch it streaming online, since I don't have the HBO channel and because I can just watch real porn on pornhub.
I haven't read any of the Game of Thrones/A Song of Fire and Ice books. Are they any good?
Shame the English translation to the Witcher are subpar. The books are very good.
But GoT has only had one good season. The first one. The rest has been mediocre to garbage.
tim and eric awesome show is better than got and with a lower budget. fuck you middle earth wow magic the gathering faggots. go get your dick wet and chug A beer jesus christ
>It all goes to shit when you realize the REAL protagonists are all safe and won't be killed.
Or worse, will be resurrected by meme magic
The image you posted calls the book series by its correct name, why can't you?
No he explicitly kills those who would cause a lot change to the story.
Who did this art of mike? Is there a name to that style of art? I really love it
A Song of Ice and Fire (not Fire and Ice if you go looking for it) starts pretty solid but kinda went downhill for me when he started just going into schlock fantasy territory. Like there's just literally actual dragons now. And it's frost zombies, okay. We kinda had a neat political intrigue and possibly interesting and unique threats thing going on beforehand here, but by the time you get to/past Dance of Dragons (which is entirely a book that recaps what characters that didn't appear in the book right before it have been doing without actually moving time or the plot forward) it just really falls off the cliff. Plus he starts fake killing off characters among all the real kills and only the worst ones that provide the least to the story other than acting as convenient sources of killing off actually worthwhile characters end up being fake deaths and coming back.
The first couple books are actually very enjoyable but it ends up going nowhere and I think the TV show ultimately had a lot to do with him getting sloppier and lazier aswell.
it didn't hold my attention until the very end of the first season when the dragons were born. then as the story went on i was more and more invested as i found myself waiting to see the major villains be killed off and was thrown for a loop when a bunch of the main heroes died.
Normies.
>it didn't hold my attention until the very end of the first season when the dragons were born
This is also worth mentioning. The TV GoT fans seem to be absolutely in love with these normiest of normie hype moments, but it was probably the single biggest groan inducing moment to get to in the books, because everything else had been much more unique, subtle and interesting when it came to supernatural things or mystical threats.
Then literal actual dragons just pop out, they act pretty much like animals (decently smart bird of preys but still...) and they'll even spit fire for you on a command word that is so cringy, lame and clichee'd that just having it saying "Fire" in regular language would have been the better option.
And pretty soon after that "oh no" moment comes in the books where you go "Oh no, it's all going to turn out to be basic fucking schlock shit when the cards are down isn't it?" everything starts going exactly that direction.
>the pooular kids who made fun of me in high school for reading ASOIAF now attend Got viewing parties and cosplay as their favorite characters.
Honestly at this point you can almost take mainstream commercial success as a sign of something not having any lasting or profound cultural impact. It's Brave New World-tier white noise/occupation generation.
Think of all the shitty hype series like Lost and Heroes that were flavor of the month and then went nowhere and left nothing worthwhile behind nor are likely to be remembered by people as influental to them.
Then you look at something like Scrubs, which is dearly beloved by many and I reckon more than a few people would say an episode or two had a profound influence on them or some of their thinking, but the entire time the show struggled to be a success and to get renewed for another season or picked up by a different network, yet if we're looking at cultural impact I can guarantee you it will be remembered a hundred times more than any of that other garbage.
For anyone worried about muh feminism
>sand snakes killed
>Rhaegar divorced elia and remarried Lyana, muh Jon is legitimate
>Yara's fleet gets pwned by Euron
>There's a reason it's so insanely popular
Because of idiots.
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Gotta get rid of all of them big forces for change you spend all that time building up or something might happen.
I really like GoT. What I hate is the fanbase, the mayority are normies who say that is the best thing ever created even comparing it to Breaking Bad.
sometimes I get the feeling that people only watch game of thrones because everyone else watches it and nobody actually enjoys it but just watch it to know the current relevant pop culture it represents and seem "normal" and have something to talk about.
This
This. Also think fat neckbeards connect to the fantasies of elder fat neckbeard.
I'd recommend finishing the first season but if you still don't like it you might want to drop it.
Main things the show has going for it are political intrigue, suspense, watching characters plan and outplay one another, and production values. And shock value, honestly.
One thing it has done which no other show has is have a massive fucking budget and the special effects of a Hollywood blockbuster. I'm sure other anons can cherry pick a few moments that look like shit, but for the most part the big battles really are quite a spectacle. I'm not advocating watching the show for this alone as you'd end up bored for most of it. But I can't think of any other show that comes close to matching GoT in terms of scale of production values.
This is literally the Star Wars Prequels defense.
After some googling and research I believe the style of art is "Abstraction". Not "Abstract" because it still does try to look like something from the real world, but "Abstraction". I'm not 100% sure though. I've asked on /gd/ aswell but still waiting for a response.
Thanks HBO! I'll be sure to renew my subscription!
PURGE!