Why do normies say that Game of Thrones isn't a fantasy?

Why do normies say that Game of Thrones isn't a fantasy?

Is it that fantasy is "uncool" or some shit?

game of thrones is post apocalyptic sci-fi

It's more of a soap opera t b h.

Because it's so random and everyone can die!

Nobody says it isn't fantasy and the success of LOTR proves that normies like GOOD fantasy
There is just too much trash to take the genre as a whole seriously

It wasn't fantasy when it started. It went to shit when gypsy lady "revived" Carl Drogo with black magic and Renly was killed by a "nothing personell" shadow babby.

I came to post this damn it

Yeah it wasn't fantasy in the first scene when ice people and their pet zombies attacked a group of humans.

That part was pretty gay too. The series should have just been about the power struggle between the various houses and ended with the war of the five kings. The zombies, dragon and magic should have never been there in the first place.

They're useless since they're going to get defeated in a lame way.

Just read War of The Roses and shut your goddamn mouth then.

>I like this fantasy series except for the fantasy parts
lel

Many of them are just unaware that there's such thing as low fantasy and high fantasy.

Doesn't GoT count as high fantasy anyway?

The show really got popular based on its "realistic" elements, not its fantasy elements. People watched it for power struggles, sex, and betrayals. It's definitely fantasy, but the fantasy elements were more subtle in the early seasons. With season 7 on the other hand any semblance of clever scheming has been tossed out the window in favor of dragons, dragons, and more dragons.

Was he ever right about anything? Thetas, obsidian microchips, nuclear fallout... Anything?

>1st season had hardly any fantasy elements
>1st season was by far the best season of the show

I can feel my pecans powering up right this moment

are they even saying that it isn't fantasy?

it does

GoT is high fantasy, it's no more realistic than LOTR (which is pretty much the archetypal work of high fantasy).

Season 3 had barely any

Please give me one exanple