[freedumb2003]

>>Dress up pornography with good costumes and a good script, and it’s still pornography.<<

I saw a skit (in passing — I don’t even remember who did it) where the posited the “Creative Director” for GOT was a 14-yo kid.

They kept asking him questions about different plot lines, story arcs, etc.

His answer to every question was “More Boobies!”

Based on the 6 episodes I got from Netflix and watched — yeah, that pretty much covers it. That and killing one of the “regular cast” every couple of episodes.

The story lines might have been able to carry it but I find the gratuitous sex and violence much too distracting. I am not a prude but it is, as you say, just pornography with nice costumes and complicated stories. But still just porno.

[trisham]

I’ve tried watching GOT three different times and each time by the 30 minute or so mark, I gave up. Stupid and boring. I don’t get it.

[agere_contra]

You got it.

The only consistently strong plotline on that show was/is the Arya Stark thread with its themes of loss of identity, and assassins with a 3rd person speech code.

So many of the other plotlines are holding patterns or potboilers.

But it is at least a goldmine for memes. ‘You know nothing John Snow’. ‘Winter is coming’.

Also: the Red Wedding was genuinely shocking and dramatic. If you’re going to kill off leading characters, that’s the way to do it.

[mad_as_he$$]

“More Boobies!”

Works every time it is tried.

[Svartalfiar]

His answer to every question was “More Boobies!”

Based on the 6 episodes I got from Netflix and watched — yeah, that pretty much covers it. That and killing one of the “regular cast” every couple of episodes.

Did you read the books? There's much less sex in the books, less descriptive. However, the killing off of major characters is definitely a major theme of Martin's. And, it makes the plot much more realistic.