Game of Thrones - Overrated?
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I do think it's good, but not as good as everyone says.. I find it pretty boring and dragging on too long in most parts.. it relies a lot on violence and sexual content, which is cheap and easy to do.
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Some people like it.
Some people won't mind it.
Some people will love it.
Some people will hate it.
I am in the "love it" camp
The sex and violence are vital parts of the show. Some shows use them as shock tactics but for GOT's it's such a important part of the story without it the story would be very very different
It is as good as everyone says it is. The cinematography, special effects, costume design, actors, script/dialogue - It's all second to none IMO. If you don't like the pacing of the story that's your problem but don't mark it down because the show takes its time to flesh out the story/characters because it's all the richer for it!
If anything the slow parts of the show make you appreciate it more when something big happens. A bit like how you need the bad times to appreciate the good times (not saying any part of the show is bad but you know what i mean
Almost every episode is epic with it acting, scripting, special effects, scenery, and cinematography. I can not fault it.
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Game of Thrones is superb quality in both production and storyline. The books are even better.
I love it
It is well viewed and much acclaimed. Not everyone will like it, but many do and it is a success.
What difference does it make to you that there's a huge audience? It's not as if you have to watch it with them
I don't know anybody else who watches it, none of my friends do.
So you can't watch GOT because it has a big audience? I find that quite odd but each to their own I guess.
I don't think it's overhyped or overrated. I'd put in the same bracket as Breaking Bad, Sopranos as great tv shows. Story telling is so good. It's not really the type of show you can watch 1 or 2 eps and pass judgment on the series.
My husband who hates fantasy as much as I love it watches GOT each week and normally he wouldn't touch this sort of thing with a barge pole.
I think if you've been with it since the start you would now probably find it quite difficult to leave it - but if you're trying to start with it coming into it now then you probably won't stand much chance of understanding it - which may be why some people find it hard to 'get into'.
I suspect the "boring and dragging on" parts involving lots of dialogue, character development and political manoeuvring are the actually what makes the show. It sounds as though you like the violence and sexual content bits only.
That was probably the case at the start but I think it's been toned down since the first series.
I get that it's a huge area with different things going on in the various parts of the world but sometimes I feel it's switches too much at times, some of the better episodes have been in my view where it focuses mainly on one particular arc.
There is also one major bugbear I have with the show which may be rectified in the future (I haven't read the books so I don't know if it will)
I also had a WTF! this is cool moment when I watched that scene where they took Craster's last son to an alter and what looked like a leader figure turned the baby into a White Walker simply by touch.
Now the books which I stress I haven't read may explore them further but I think it's disappointing that it feels like that arc is completely dead (no pun intended).
I agree, there's nowhere near as much sex as there was in the beginning, a change which is also reflected in the books themselves so not a great surprise. Violence has always been at the heart of this set of novels with the sex just a byline to it and a reason for the whole Game to begin in the first place (ie the Lannisters).
Totally disagree, that scene was deliberately put in to demonstrate Baelish's utter disregard for anyone else outside of his own ambitions. It showed his indifference, his callousness, his "means to an end" way of dealing both with his girls and with his clients and built up to Ros' sticky end a couple of seasons later, where she was discarded by him having used up her usefulness.
There's an interesting piece on the whole sexposition of GoT here.
The relevant part of the original article (no idea why it's asterisking his name):
My criticism with that particular scene was that it revealed Littlefinger as the manipulative and devious character that (book readers know) he is far too soon. It should have come after the Throne room confrontation not before it because he's basically just straight up told Ned to his face that he's not to be trusted.