GoT: Most of the characters were downright irritating. F@$%&/* plotholes F@$%&/* a loooot everywhere. York vs Lancaster. Game of England.
The man doesn’t know how to tell ’bout battles or magic things. Sex sex sex nudes and tits and blood and raping. F@$%&/* a lot characters that comes to the battle sayin’ “Aghaghh!! I’m dead!” and stuff.
Fantasy? Just the cheap porn with the girls. If almost we can say Arya “it’s a girl”. I can’t believe that character. Please.
GoT, A song of ice and fire… equals WC “literature”. That’s a commercial nonsense without backstories and poor worldbuilding. Lots of marketing. An unforgetable oblivion

Tony Stark is the only Stark that rocks.
Cheers!

Having said that, I read through all 12 of the Sharpe books that Bernard Cornwall wrote before it became popular (yes, read them back-to-back) but then quickly tailed off once I got to the ones he wrote after the films were produced. They just weren’t the same after that. Oh well.

The HBO series does a remarkable job paying attention to detail when building the world, and I give them kudos for trying to stay as close to the source material as possible. But that is also their downfall because there are things that work in a book that don’t translate well to the screen. Heavy politics is one of them. Plus, I can’t get really emotionally involved in the characters because I’m expecting anyone I start liking to die and that’s too close to real life for me to find it entertaining. Some people like the “no one is safe!” trend that fantasy is taking. Me, I wanted to read and watch fantasy to get some relief from the horrors of reality, not have them shoved in my face in technicolor.

So far I’ve only read the first book and watched the first season. I doubt I’ll read the rest of the books, but I may watch the rest of the series. Eventually. Maybe. Or maybe not.

Thanks for showing that there are other people out among the wilds of the internet who aren’t enamored with Game of Thrones.

Searching for someone to back up your thoughts on the internet is always going to work. Just because a lot of people see it that way doesn’t even make it a valid observation. And, come on, at the very least it’s a “good” daytime soap set in medieval times. I mean, have you even seen a bad soap?

Anyhow, soaps tend to trivialize events in the face of a character’s emotions or feelings, but Game of Thrones is the opposite. It trivializes emotions in the face of events.

While the series might be a history as it happens, the problem I found is that it is impossible to tell what kind of a story a history of something is until it is all done. When the series reaches some final conclusion, then it will be easy to tell who the main characters really were with others becoming minor regardless of how much page time they got.