Why I Was Not Grabbed By Game Of Thrones. Review on Game of Thrones

Hii guys .

I am sharing my personal experience . this is for only season 1.

The Good: Interesting setting, Good direction, Moments of performance

The Bad: Very plot-centered, Light on character development, Most of the performances fail to be superlative.

The Basics: A mythical realm finds its major political figures vying for dominance as their competing machinations collide.

There are any number of popular cable television shows that I have absolutely no interest in. I have, for example, no compelling drive to watch The Sopranos. For all its popularity at the time, The Sopranos did not inspire me to run out and get cable television. Until my wife started reading the book series, I had no compulsion to sit down to Game Of Thrones. It was not that I had an antipathy toward the show, I simply knew nothing about it other than that it was popular, had a fantasy look to it, and was making Peter Dinklage a household name.

Having now done a marathon viewing of the first season of Game Of Thrones(which my wife claims stuck very closely to the first book), I find myself in the position of not siding with popular opinion on the season. The first season of Game Of Thrones was not bad, but it was not truly superlative in any way. In fact, I found myself bored with the first season of Game Of Thrones much quicker than many of my peers for the same reason I was not simply blown away by House Of Cards(reviewed here!). While one of the characters in Game Of Thrones asserts that everyone wants to rule the world, that is not true and it hardly works for characters who are compelling to watch episode after episode. In other words, characters have to have sufficient motivation to be compelling and the reactive nature of most of the characters in the first season of Game Of Thrones is hardly enough to sustain my interest. In fact, the way most of the characters are simply reacting to their immediate circumstances or are motivated by revenge for the wrongs against their family becomes droll fast.

Despite what some have argued to me, virtually all of the characters are motivated by a sense of honor that puts the character on a trajectory to avenge the assassination or betrayal of a family member in the past. In Westeros, a kingdom ruled by the capital of King’s Landing and consisting of seven major territories, the recent history involves many of the middle aged characters having been involved in the usurping of the last – the Mad – King before King Robert was installed to the throne. thats enough .

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