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Elana Mitchell's avatar

GoT was about two things, politics and a creeping horror/disaster that the audience knows will upend the politics side of things for the characters, so its scope was large from the start.

HoTD isn't even really about politics, it's about relationships, feelings, and love, and on the periphery, misogyny, because the realm's man babies will literally burn it to the ground to put an incompetent man on the throne than bend the knee to a capable woman. Take the dragons out and It's really a medieval Succession.

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John Birmingham's avatar

Feelings!? Oh noes. I watched a feelshow?

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Elana Mitchell's avatar

I'm sorry to have been the one to tell you this 😬

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Michael Barnes's avatar

I enjoyed it, happy to watch the next season.

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Michael Barnes's avatar

Though it goes without saying that the highlight of the series were obviously Natalie Bochenski & Stuart Layt HotD recaps.

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John Birmingham's avatar

But of course!

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Elana Mitchell's avatar

We cannot underestimate how much Nat and Stu's recaps increased the enjoyment of the show.

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Bill H's avatar

Totally agree on the last 2 being the best. There is a noticeable lack of a character or family to root for. As they get closer and sniff the throne they all fall into the old truth... Absolute power corrupts absolutely. The only honorable characters so far are the head of the Kings guard and some of the knights. But maybe next season we will meet the Starks

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John Birmingham's avatar

I thought Daemon was at east interesting, if not honourable. He had an actual character arc. You could see in that last ep that part of him still wanted to be King and even believed he should be, but he'd grown up enough to put that aside in favour of his wife, er, sorry, I meant his niece.

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insomniac's avatar

"...put that aside in favour of his wife, er, sorry, I meant his niece..."

I read somewhere today that accidental incest is a problem up in Queensland. They like spreading the...ah...love...around more than other states.

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Dave W's avatar

Accident- so the person doesn't know that the other person is their wife or their niece?

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John Birmingham's avatar

I'm afraid everyone was very well informed.

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Dave W's avatar

Pretty sure that the Hapsburgs knew exactly what they were doing, uncontrollable drooling and seizures notwithstanding.

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