[Oztrich Boy]

Unlike the Bible, there is no moral of the story, no redeeming hope. The worst thing about the show is that the overall theme of GoT is utter and complete nihilism.

Not so. It's just the moral lesson is not the easy one: just be good and InShaAllah.

The characters and what they do matters.

"Winter is Coming" Eddard Stark

"Anyone can be killed" Arya Stark

"Perhaps I've made a terrible mistake" Robb Stark

The one overriding theme is that decisions have consequences. And Bad decisions have really bad consequences.

Of course if you are a Christian just watching it for the porn, you may miss that.

[Sirius Lee]

Of course if you are a Christian just watching it for the porn, you may miss that.

Who can forget the blond chick at the beginning with the huge butt and highly asymmetrical boobs coming out of the big bathtub at the beginning?

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Obviously decisions have consequences. That isn't really a spectacular theme anyway, but considering that the one thing about Game of Thrones that almost everyone is aware of is that characters, good bad and indifferent, are capriciously killed off, kind of blunts the argument that that is the point of the show. If the argument is that everybody, including the good, eventually fall and make bad decisions and then pay for it, then my assertion that Game of Thrones is purely nihilistic stands because unlike here in reality, there is no savior to redeem the characters in GoT.

"The characters and what they do matters."

Again, not really. Everybody dies regardless of what they do. Realistic, I grant you, but not really fertile ground for breath-taking writing.

""Winter is Coming" Eddard Stark"

Yeah, we know, because that was aggressively pointed to in the most painfully obvious ways, from the very first scene of those Yeti guys killing people in the woods. GoT 1, subtlety, 0.

""Anyone can be killed" Arya Stark"

Yeah, everybody dies, especially if they're a character on Game of Thrones. Shocker.

""Perhaps I've made a terrible mistake" Robb Starka"

Don't know anything about him, but chances are whether he made a terrible mistake or not, he'll die simply to showcase that special effects can be really convincing.

Lame plot lines dumbed-down for the masses who want to feel like they are following intense political intrigue, with a double dose of sex and nudity and gore to draw in more viewers, with the giant billboards screaming "evil snowmen are coming!" all along the way for good measure.