I don’t watch Game of Thrones. I read some of the first-season recaps on TWOP and watched a couple episodes when I had a free month of HBO, but I’ve never read the source material or delved into the story in any other way.
Maybe my expectations were too high because of all of the media attention the show gets, or because of how people who seem similar to me in matters of taste have embraced it, but I found it to be shockingly boring. Shocking because, even though the show is chock-full of nudity, dragons, rape, and murder, it just could not hold my attention.
I expected to love this show. I love all of the elements of it, all of the things I had read about it. I like fantasy already and was excited that there was going to be such a heavily nerdy show on a network as committed to quality in its production as HBO. The title sequence is amazing. The actors are interesting-looking, and I like that I’ve never seen most of them before. I guess it’s just a case of the whole being somehow less than the sum of its parts.
Everything about the actual show bores the crap out of me and it’s tough to nail down exactly why. The dialogue is certainly a problem. I don’t like how basically modern it is. Here’s an example:
“The Lord of Light wants his enemies burnt. The Drowned God wants his enemies drowned. Why are all the gods such vicious cunts? Where is the god of tits and wine?”
Where is the god who prevents people I’m supposed to respect from speaking like mtv-addicted frat boys? Cause I have a show I’d like him to check out.
The sets and costumes are beautiful, the effects makeup is well-done (from what I’ve seen), I don’t know if the plot is well-crafted but everything is visually lovely (or horrible) as it should be, but the dialogue just really takes me out of this intricately-built fantasy world I’m supposed to be believing in. I would not be surprised if one of the characters mentioned a recent trip to Taco Bell, or was seen chugging a Red Bull. I would not be at all surprised but I might actually be less bored.
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