Game of Thrones

[matt819]

I didn't read the books and couldn't get into the TV series. My wife has read all the books. Go figure.

What I'm stupefied by is the fact that what happens on GoT is a news event. Many websites have GoT daily updates on episodes as well as reader and viewer responses. True, we've elevated musical groups to similar statuses over the past 50 years and more. And that's irritating as well. But the kind of free promotion to George RR Martin and his books and the series is unprecedented, and just plain weird, IMHO.

Maybe I'm just a curmudgeon. I am, after all, getting on in years. And it's not as if I'm obsessing. But it's just so damned irritating.

[PoliticAverse]

1. With so many choices it's not the same as it used to be. Are you old enough...

to remember when _everyone_ knew that JR had been shot?

[matt819]

7. Absolutely

Though I didn’t watch that series either. And, of course, without the internet you weren’t necessarily confronted by it everywhere you turned.

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. M*A*S*H*....remember that show?

The whole country cried when one character was killed in the show, and the final episode of the show broke records
of number of viewers.

Then we come to Breaking Bad..........I


But I get your point re: more exposure of a show because internet.

[Yavin4]

2. It's the last show of the TV monoculture.

As we move into streaming services, most people won't watch the same show simultaneously any more.

[Nictuku]

3. It is the talk around the water cooler at work

.... people are having fun discussing the possibilities, and the meaning of this or that.

At my work, discussion of politics is definitely a no no, and so to see so many people coming together to discuss something that they consider fun is a good thing.

I came up with one today: Why was that white horse waiting for Arya like that? My thought is that Bran and warged it to go be there when she needed it.

[GemDigger]

4. " Bran and warged it to go be there when she needed it."

That is a very interesting thought.

[Quemado]

5. I'm glad I never watched it.

I've seen a lot of whining on YouTube about the current season of GoT. I'm not a fan of fantasy. I don't want to watch a show in which, on average, 14 people get killed per episode.

[hlthe2b]

6. The cost PER EPISODE to produce has run from $2million to a whopping $15 million this season...

There is nothing else on this scale on tv. That's why. Even if it is not your genre (and I'd say that personally about myself), it is still incredibly well produced and well cast.

[mainstreetonce]

8. If anyone didn't watch but wanted to get in on the ending

I really think you can watch season one and then go right to eight.
Season one will acquaint you with every main character who is being discussed in all the theories about the end.

Most of the middle seasons contain a lot of subplots you don't need to know to enjoy the ending.

[PoliticAverse]

10. Hey it's not like the books where you have to wade through 10 pages of what someone had for lunch.