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I’m rewatching Game of Thrones at the moment and it really is the bestest. It’s so damn ‘epic’ - the character development is exceptional, you really care for the heroes and you really, really hate the villains 
For anyone that wants a good bit of medieval-style conquests, ‘lords and ladies’ intrigue and doesn’t mind a light sprinkling of fantasy elements, this is absolutely critical viewing.
The only caveat to me recommending this is that it requires a strong stomach… it’s brutal and miserable. There is a lot of violence, cruelty and misogyny and plenty of scenes that may upset. This can stray a little too much towards ‘titillation’, especially during the earlier seasons which also have excessive nudity, but I think it wisely recalibrates away from this as the show goes on so that the misery is less titillating and just, err, really hard to watch…?
What a show \o/
Edit: I have some friends to refuse to watch this purely on the basis that “there are dragons”… which is silly because as a whole it’s not really about the dragons / fantasy and is instead much more about the human relationships and conquests. I will tell them that it’s much more like, perhaps, ‘Braveheart’, which they like. Yet they still refuse to watch because they cannot get on board with the idea of ‘dragons’… so frustrating!
For anyone on the fence, I’d say commit to the first 2 episodes and you’ll get a good idea of what’s to come.
For anyone that wants a good bit of medieval-style conquests, ‘lords and ladies’ intrigue and doesn’t mind a light sprinkling of fantasy elements, this is absolutely critical viewing.
The only caveat to me recommending this is that it requires a strong stomach… it’s brutal and miserable. There is a lot of violence, cruelty and misogyny and plenty of scenes that may upset. This can stray a little too much towards ‘titillation’, especially during the earlier seasons which also have excessive nudity, but I think it wisely recalibrates away from this as the show goes on so that the misery is less titillating and just, err, really hard to watch…?
What a show \o/
Edit: I have some friends to refuse to watch this purely on the basis that “there are dragons”… which is silly because as a whole it’s not really about the dragons / fantasy and is instead much more about the human relationships and conquests. I will tell them that it’s much more like, perhaps, ‘Braveheart’, which they like. Yet they still refuse to watch because they cannot get on board with the idea of ‘dragons’… so frustrating!
For anyone on the fence, I’d say commit to the first 2 episodes and you’ll get a good idea of what’s to come.
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