The series mainstreamed the idea that such suffering is closer to universal than exceptional, that the things we most fear to see and to name out loud are as much a part of ourselves as anything else. Exposure and openness are essential components of empathy.
The young woman she was before Joffrey, Littlefinger, and Ramsay got their claws into her would never have been capable of such willful cruelty, much less of enjoying it. They only taught her which end of the whip she wanted to be on. The show is remarkably empathetic as it witnesses suffering, bringing us into the skins of characters both beloved and hateful. By showing what it feels like to endure trauma, Game of Thrones removes all easy resolution, forcing us to acknowledge the humanity of the characters.
The devastation wrought by the dragons during their growth became an increasingly prominent part of the show, especially after the largest of the three, Drogon, burned a young girl to death at the start of season 5. The dragons are not strictly awe-inspiring. Rather, they become, over time, an expression of the worst excesses of war and empire, of violence on a scale so grotesque that no single person could ever hope to guide it.
The dragons literally separate her from the rest of humanity, carrying their mother high above the armies and cities she lays to waste, freeing her from proximity to the grisly consequences of her ambitions.
For all their size and strength and destructive power, the dragons are fragile, too. The sense of majesty and wonder they bring with them can be shot down, ripped apart, and profaned.
The revelation that they too are just flesh and bone is devastating on an almost primal level, reaching back into our collective childhood to crush something wild and free and beautiful. In that loss of illusion, though, is an opportunity to understand ourselves and the world a little better, to see the cracks in the stories we tell ourselves, the weakness and pain behind the things we idolize and hate.
They magnify and render impossible to ignore the worst distortions of both the fictional Westerosi society and our own imperialist death cult of a nation, a place where every year we accept children shot dead in the streets as the price of law and order, where war never ends even in the shadow of melting ice caps and rising seas.
They are extensions of our cruelty toward each other. Game of Thrones is not a perfect work of art. Its dialogue was often exceptional but never consistently great and the White Walkers were frequently inert as a screen presence. Nothing in television history has given so much screen time over to victims of sexual assault.
Game of Thrones doesn't retell the story of the novel. Rather, the game's story travels a parallel path to the cataclysmic events that rocked a kingdom. You view Westeros through the eyes of two separate characters created just for this adventure, Alester Sarwyck and Mors Westford.
Alester returns to his home of Riverspring after spending the last 15 years in self-imposed exile. Merely walking through the gate should, by rights, make him the ruler given that his lord father recently passed, but his conniving bastard brother, Valaar, stands between him and his rightful seat of power.
Internal conflicts flare up in Alester as he tries to wrestle power away from Valaar without succumbing to the dirty influences whispering in his ears. Way up in the north, Mors calls the Wall home and the Night's Watch his family. Trapped in his own exile after he disobeyed orders during the war that placed Robert Baratheon on the Iron Throne, Mors mercilessly slays wildlings and deserters to stay true to the sacred oath he swore.
When a letter arrives from the Hand of the King commanding him to protect a mysterious woman, he travels to southern lands to keep her safe. Loosing an arrow at point blank range is how to kill with style. Both Mors and Alester are strong figures that have a clear idea of the difference between right and wrong. Alester puts his family and townsfolk above all else. He would rather be humiliated at the feet of Queen Cersei than suffer the wrath of her displeasure. The greater good is a burning flame in the back of his mind, always reminding him that things are better for everyone if he doesn't let his pride get in the way.
Mors couldn't be more different. He acts with his rigid view of morality in mind at all times. To kneel at the feet of evil is to align yourself with wickedness, so he takes the punishment for his choices without wavering in the slightest. Dialogue choices determine how others react to your characters. If you approach a prostitute in Mole's Town with insults on your lips and violence in your heart, she may run away instead of offering you the valuable information you require.
But if you appear to be a pushover, a clever villager might talk himself out of punishment for a murder he committed. There's no morality judge to keep you in line.
You respond in conversations with whatever you most want to say and bear the consequences of your actions. Regardless of what card you play, the world changes slightly as you get deeper into the story. Alliances are frequently forged and destroyed, so choose carefully. There are five different endings based on what you do in the last chapter, but the bigger changes occur throughout the adventure as characters are either present or absent based on how you treated them earlier.
You can just see her scheming! For the most part, Game of Thrones stays true to the world George R. Martin created. A web of intrigue stretches from the crown in the Red Keep all the way north to the Wall. Black Brothers fight wildlings, Gold Cloaks keep peace based on the Lannisters' whims, and everyone mutters quietly of the Others who reside where snow flourishes.
Occasional missteps feel out of place for those intimately familiar with the source material, but aren't egregious enough to take you out of the experience. For instance, as in most role-playing games, you have a healthy assortment of armor to clothe your characters in. However, draping a Lannister cloak over Alester's shoulders is just strange, and there's no reason Strong Belwas' gauntlets should be in a Westeros dungeon. Plus, why are street vendors selling wild fire?
But such discrepancies are nitpicky considering how true to the books most of this game is. The only time the story stumbles is in the dialogue. Certain characters are dangerously close to being gruff caricatures rather than fully realized people, existing only as easy straw men to tear down.
And though the main cast is well acted, supporting characters are woefully inconsistent. Thankfully, the dialogue is good most of the time. And the villains are just as fleshed out as the heroes. Valaar is particularly well crafted. The show would work out equally well with much less nudity and done in a more presentable way. But also the constant excessive use of foul language; here I am thinking of the "F-word" and the "C-word" that most of the characters are using frequently.
It really seems out of place with the setting and atmosphere of the series, plus is also adds a wholly unnecessary level of unpleasantness. I am not a prude, but I think it is so frequent in the series that it is a downright annoyance. You quickly find your favorite character or characters in the myriad of colorful, quirky, scheming, bold, defiant and lovable characters. And likewise, you also quickly find ones that you most definitely do not like or even downright loathe. For me, the King Joffrey character was one that I instantly despised, he really pulled every wrong string in my being.
Nothing against Jack Gleeson as an actor, it was just the character that he portrayed. And as such, when a series manages to instill such a relationship between the viewer and fictional characters, then the series is really worth watching, appealing to you on more than just an entertainment level. The slow build up of various events, and how the events have effects on the various houses and factions like ripples in a pond, really add enjoyment to the show.
And you want to see more and learn what will happen next and see how the epic tale unfolds. Who will live and who will die? Who will stand victorious when the dust settles? I am rating it a solid eight out of ten stars, and the reason for it not scoring nine or even ten stars from me is solely because of the unnecessary nudity and foul language. Great show with dragons, sex, fighting, dwarfs and cooking tips.
Updated after Season 8 Set in a fantasy land though, in many ways, very similar to Earth in the Middle ages the stories of several families and individuals and their quest for power.
In particular, they all want the Iron Throne Good, epic, fantasy drama, based on the books by George RR Martin. Started extremely well: the focus on several individuals, the clever interlocking story lines, the weaving together of family feuds, power trips and pure greed and malice. Add in superb cinematography, settings, scenery and CGI, spot-on performances and some great battle scenes and we had an intriguing, engaging, action-packed drama.
One of the early trademarks of the show was the principle that all characters are expendable: characters, often heroes and seemingly there for the long haul, get killed off in the blink of an eye, and out of the blue.
This is good and bad. On the other hand, it leaves you feeling distant and unengaged. It's difficult to support a character when they could be killed off at any moment. The other issue early on was that there are possibly too many stories being told simultaneously. Too many characters in the story I didn't care about though the previous issue diluted this phenomenon somewhat!
This is particularly so in Seasons 3 and 4. While the plot is good and the characters have depth, it isn't all substance: style plays its part and sometimes the dial is too much over to the style side. Over time, style starts to overwhelm substance. This all said, it does start to come together from Season 5 onwards.
Seasons 1 and 2 were good, and set up the story for some great development in Season 3. Unfortunately, Seasons 3 and 4 drifted somewhat. Season 5 gets us back on track and Season 6 propelled the story forward in a big way. Season 7 is where the individual, seemingly parallel at times, stories start to come together, as we start to effectively get one story, rather than several. It also set up the series for the final season, which promised to be a humdinger. Game of Thrones Season 8 would have to be one of the most eagerly anticipated final seasons in TV history Having created the mythical world and developed the plot to this thrilling climax, spending eight years in doing so, the writers seemed to not know how to end it.
Pacing is uneven, some plot developments are quite laughable deux ex machina, anyone The final episode does tie things up quite neatly but more with a whimper than a bang. Very disappointing, especially considering the build-up. Less drifting in the middle seasons even cull one or two seasons , a tighter final season and no zombies the white walkers were a waste of time - a distraction from the real confrontation and this would have been brilliant.
AlsExGal 3 September If the first season seems boring to you that seems to be the biggest complaint I've heard from people who don't like the show just push through anyway. If by episode 10 you still aren't hooked, I'd be really surprised. It's fantasy medieval material with lots of characters, plots and settings. Almost all of the characters are interesting and multidimensional, supported by very good acting for this type of show and for the immense quantity of characters involved and half a dozen of them bringing really high level acting talent in general.
Almost every character has their own backstory that makes their actions relatable, from Tywin, whose weak father almost lost their family seat, to Joffrey who got told he is the greatest of the world from his birth and became a spoiled brat. Hardly any character has "plot armor", so nearly anyone can die at any second with the momentum changing completely. The dialogue is excellent, based on the excellent writing from the books.
It has terrific world-building, a lot of attention to detail, amazing production value in every technical aspect soundtrack is amazing, cinematography is impressive, the locations are great. There are great battles and special effects. It is full of unexpected but consistent plot-twists, and it's extremely focused on details and foreshadowing, which makes every scene potentially important and provides a rich ground for theories on future plots and speculation on answers for the dozens of mysteries the show introduces.
It is highly immersive and dark, good things happen to bad people all the time, as bad things happen to good people, which is frustrating and infuriating most of the time, but that makes it so unpredictable and also helps with creating connections to the characters and making you really invested in what's going to happen next.
Being a GoT fan, I greatly admired the writing here and great to see bold choices in writing made. Season 6 was quite a downer with quality slipping in casting choices, but it picked up later on thankfully. I had to watch this because others were watching it and I tried to be open minded and see what all the fuss was about.
Seriously how did such a silly novel came to screen! This shouldn't have been done by HBO. It' just nerd fantasy fiction. What a derivative story! They just throw in all sorts of shocking and titillating nonsense to make a story but it's all so silly.
There is just so much gross stuff: the incest, the beheading and other dismemberments, the token homosexuals, the gratuitously violent sword fighting and last but not least the "Golden Crown". I'm reminded of what many prominent authors and critics got together to say about Harry Potter: The sight of grown people reading the books is distressing. The same can be said of Game of Thrones. Except Game is full of so many unpleasant characters. The cast tries hard but they are wasted. They are almost all irritating and to kill of Sean Bean leaving only Lena Headey as a cast member of stature!
Can't bear to think of Season 2 relying on the remaining cast. I think the worst part was watching Emilia Clarke talk that strange language for minutes on end. Were there any good points? Just the effort put in production set design and makeup. Jason Momoa does look like a human monster here.
The vaguely British Irish medieval castles and settings are well done. Its just a shame so much effort went into such drivel. It has begun! Martin series of books of adult fantasy fiction titled 'A Song of Ice and Fire'. The 'game' is played by seven families - Stark, Lannister, Baratheon, Greyjoy, Tully, Arryn, and Tyrell - and what we find in the initial episode is a taste of the intrigue to come. Near the castle of Winterfell, Eddard's children discover a dead direwolf and five of its pups still alive.
As the direwolf is the symbol of the Starks, Eddard allows each of his five children to keep one of the pups as pet. A sixth pup is discovered a short distance away from the others. King Robert Baratheon Mark Addy , Eddard's childhood friend, journeys to Winterfell with his family to ask Eddard to become Hand of the King, the top adviser and military commander in the realm, due to the death of the previous Hand, Lord Jon Arryn. Though reluctant to leave his duties and family, Eddard is convinced by his wife to accept the position in order to investigate Jon Arryn's death.
To protect their secret affair, Jaime throws the boy out of a tower window. Where the story goes form here will follow throughout the remaining episodes. Though some would criticize an early report on a series merely at its inception, it seems only fitting that offering a word on encouragement to pay attention to this new series is warranted.
We can only hope that the series continues to build as it progresses. The cast is filled with excellent actors, both seasoned and refreshingly new. Grady Harp. Well the first couple of seasons where good! Game of Thrones has magic, dragons, action, and drama; with a hard does of x rated scenes and nudity. Game of Thrones follows a good mix with some of England's history which give a real feel for the major story line mixed in with magically fantasy.
Regrettably the later years of the series becomes formulated, redundant, and hemmed in; much like the Walking Dead series. Does anyone watch the Walking Dead anymore? Well the killing off of lead characters, and introduction of new characters creates new life for a series. Regrettable the second half of Game of Thrones loses steam like most series.
Definitely one of the best fantasy series ever. I don't think I ever saw a better one. At least I can't remember a better one. I write this after the seventh season and it's still as good as the beginning. That's says it all. The acting is excellent. There are so many different characters, clans and families that it could be difficult to follow if you didn't pay attention. But all the characters are worth watching, every single one of them. And don't get too attached to a character because it could be over for him or her in any episode.
Never saw so many main characters being killed or murdered as in Game Of Thrones. And that's a real good thing because there is always an element of surprise. In every season characters that you would think will survive die. The battles are epic, the story could go in any direction anytime. Betrayals, violence, conquests, incestuous affairs, the show has everything. I'm a devoted fan, so devoted I already have three tattoos about it.
House Targayen rules! DKosty 5 March Yes, this is sort of a middle ages feud, the Lannisters and the Starks and the battles of the 7 kingdoms from north to south. The locales range from the Wall to Winterfell, to Kings Landing. Every episode has opening credits with maps of all the kingdoms which change as events happen. The list of characters grows week to week, and some executions end many cast members stay on the show.
The actor who is in the most episodes is a Lannister played by Peter Dinkvage. While Peter is short in stature, his acting is high in caliber. He is nearly killed early in the series, but like a Phoenix he continues to rise from his own demise to become a power broker for the Dragon Lady. She is a Southern Ruler who owns 3 Dragons and heads a powerful army who wants to rule the 12 kingdoms. Normally, this would be an easy task. Then there are the Starks who rule Winterfell and the North.
To complicate matters, there is the army of the dead. Early on in the series they only make brief attacks on small bands of troops. Then as more people are killed, the amry of the dead gets bigger and bigger and become a bigger and bigger threat. There's a lot of excellent character development in the earliest parts of this series.
The middle age world of kingdoms have many interesting little asides. Then as we wind into the last seasons, an alliance is created to face the army of the dead in sort of a middle age world war.
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