Meh, sounds stupid. I generally like fantasy but I have zero interest in seeing something like that. Of course, everyone thinks Game of Thrones is must-see TV as well. I finally watched the pilot, didn't even realize it was fantasy until some character mentioned dragon eggs, and when someone asked what I thought of it, I said the show would have worked better if it actually had a plot and storyline instead of random characters engaging in conversation.
Far more offensive to me is that "The Danish Girl" got nominated for an Oscar. Saw a trailer for that movie and its the most blatant liberal propaganda film since Denzel Washington in "John Q". Denzel's film was to promote universal health care and The Danish Girl exists to promote "transgender rights". Fortunately I think the collective response of the general public has been "meh" to the film as well. I hope it doesn't win an Oscar, if it does, it will be Philadelphia all over again. Tom Hanks basically "won" just for playing an oppressed gay guy, nevermind that he sucked in the role and wasn't believable.
The internet was blowing up last night because the first new episode of X-Files got pre-empted for a POST game "analysis" of the NFC football championship. People set their DVR to record it and it cut off the half the episode because of the 30 min. delay so they could show clips and highlights of the game. I never got into X-Files but I don't blame the fans for being royally pissed. Football fans would go nuts if the reverse happened and some team that hadn't played in years was pre-empted for 30 mins. of Star Wars fans talking about the movie premiere.
I got way into Game of Thrones this summer. Even read the books, which are excellent, after I finished watching.
The pilot was, very introductory yes, nothing much happened in it. This review of the pilot sums it up
http://sfdebris.com/videos/tv/gots1e1.php
There are fantastic elements in the series, dragons, ice demons with an army of zombies, a guy brought back to life, face-changing assassins, people taking over the bodies of animals, ect. but it’s more like a medieval political period piece, the “magic” stuff is more complementary to the world which has a real world feel with realistic elements like government debt and banking. Very engrossing to me.
“The Danish Girl”
Disgusting, enough said. I looked up the real guy, his wife left him and he died after his unnecessary genital surgery. Will mainstream audiences ever embrace that kind of thing? I hope not.
I was never into the X-Files, only seen a few eps, but I watched that after the football (yes there was too much boring post-game gabbing, unforgivable in the dvr era for it to run over like that) and part 2 tonight. Interesting, some infuriating lib nonsense in it though, which oddly enough Agent Scully replied to with the excellent line “It’s fear-mongering clap-trap isolationist techno-paranoia so bogus and dangerous and stupid, it borders on treason.”