What is Games of Thrones even about?

[Explicit Teemo Nudes]

Ha! Though I'd say Lannisters are the Slytherins, I could see Malfoy and Joffrey being BFFs. Targaryens Ravenclaw. Baratheons/Starks are Gryffindor. Pyke can be Hufflepuff cause I hate them. Or the Tyrells.

Yeah, but I was thinking more of the emblems shown in those video thumbnails :P

[Deleted]

Brother and Sister are banging, start a civil war to cover it up, shenanigans ensue.

[Bathory]

Imagine Lord of the Rings.

Comparing the two, I feel like LOTR was way more boring than GoT. But, different mediums and opinions and all that.

[Tempguy]

Comparing the two, I feel like LOTR was way more boring than GoT. But, different mediums and opinions and all that.

I first didn't like his synopsis , but the more I read the more I agree.

And yeah, GOT is more interesting to me too since I don't like the cheesy fantasy type stuff and the traveling is dull as shit for me. I think GOT is more interesting cause the people seem real, we can understand their mindsets and desires, and gossip and secrets are fun.

Imagine if Legolas planned in killing all the dwarfs he ever met but only we knew his real intentions? It would make the books and movie a hell of a lot more interesting suddenly. Toss in elf bewbs and twat and suddenly we have a series I am VERY into.

[Adam Jensen]

Boobs and civil war.

[Lime]

So many people obsessing over the fact that it has nudity... what even.

Thank Season 1 for that. You know, the whole: "Here's 10 minutes of nudity per episode" season.

[Budong]

Tits and wine.

[endersblade]

It's a soft-core porno with a light fantasy setting, involving incest, midgets and dragons. Any character you find yourself liking will, at some point, get killed, mutilated, flayed alive, burned alive, eaten, beaten, shot, stabbed, raped, abused, and/or tortured. Not necessarily in that order and certainly more than once per season, if not per episode.

And more T&A than even that terrible show with Lucy Lawless in it. No, not Xena.

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It's a soft-core porno with a light fantasy setting, involving incest, midgets and dragons. Any character you find yourself liking will, at some point, get killed, mutilated, flayed alive, burned alive, eaten, beaten, shot, stabbed, raped, abused, and/or tortured. Not necessarily in that order and certainly more than once per season, if not per episode.

And more T&A than even that terrible show with Lucy Lawless in it. No, not Xena.

Isn't that the strong point of the show itself? There's no "Oh this guy is a main character, he won't die" thus no suspense is created, ever.

[Hisholyness]

Never watched it. Can you explain it to me in your words?

Zombies are trying to kill humanity. A civil war puts all of humanity fighting amongst themselves as zombies grow in power. Dragons.

[Shadowferal]

It's a soft-core porno with a light fantasy setting, involving incest, midgets and dragons. Any character you find yourself liking will, at some point, get killed, mutilated, flayed alive, burned alive, eaten, beaten, shot, stabbed, raped, abused, and/or tortured. Not necessarily in that order and certainly more than once per season, if not per episode.

Martin makes one angry for what happens in the books, and then tells you that you can't do a thing about it.
After reading the fourth book with zero emotional payback, I said to hell with this series.
I read fantasy for entertainment and to set my imagination on fire. (And a Song of Ice and Fire had become less and less entertaining with every chapter.)

Any character that comes to the for and tries to be a hero digs their graves simply by being good, just and honorable.
I'll stick to fantasy where good eventually triumphs. I'll stick to stories where evil eventually is redeemed (which is even better. Being a tad cynical, I tend to see both of these ideas as very much fantasy)

[Deleted]

Never watched it. Can you explain it to me in your words?

its allready in the title: its a " Game of Thrones".... I dunno what is there hard to grasp?

[announced]

its a kick ass medieval story, filled with supernatural monsters, swordfighting, nudity, adventure, and action. In season 1 several noble families fight for power, meanwhile in Pentos a girl of noble heritage travels with her brother on a journey through foreign lands.

it has lots of surprise deaths though, and yes some you will see coming and some are just shocking, but thats what separates it from other shows, nobody is really safe. (aside from a few main cast members)

[Darkeon]

Intrigue, light-porn and swords 'n dragons.

[Tempguy]

Isn't that the strong point of the show itself? There's no "Oh this guy is a main character, he won't die" thus no suspense is created, ever.

People say that and to an extent it is. When you really don't know if your character will live or not, the stakes are real.

However, the real strength is the characters. The fact you give a shit about them. Even the villains have redeeming qualities and they seem very human. Just killing characters isn't the real feature.

However, Martin took his fetish too far and now there are only a handful of characters we care about. And we already feel pretty damn confident a few of them are not dying anytime soon. Jon, Dany, tyrion, Sansa, Arya, Jaime. So what does that leave us? He is trying (and failing) to toss random throwaway PoV's at us in every chapter and the character's do not stick. And when they die it feels like we wasted our time even reading about their plotline.

Just my take on it.

[interceptor]

Its good just watch it your self. Its much better that way

[Deleted]

It's about a bunch of nobles killing each other over imagined laws and the zombie apocalypse.

[pblasque]

From what I read (just the first book), I'd say it is focused on politics (power play), even though it is within a fantasy setting. Those elements are just to hold the characters within a border (the Wall), also they serve as a tool (dragons) to show who has power.


I may be totally wrong, but that is the feeling I've got.

[MrLachyG]

Horses and mermaids and shit

[Feredir]

Its about climate change?