Review: Game of Thrones, the Series

When a powerful production value combines with highly popular script lifted of the books (or at least is based on it), and further enhances it with some great star-cast, thats supposed to be recipe for success. And from what I have seen, Game of Thrones did achieve some amazing success.

However, the series while pretending to rely too much on realism and avoiding allegorical romances of epic fantasy, is more of a sham. Peel away the outer layers of imagined cunning of the plot, and you have something so rudimentary and devoid of substance, that it turns out to be no better than reality show tantrum. Of course, there are few stronger points here and there, but they never develop enough into more meaningful story arcs.

Yes, in reality, people are grey shaded- they have motives driving them onto middle paths more often than not. But most main characters in the GoT series seemingly fluctuate from pure evil to pure good in skips/hops. And that might cause viewers to often be confused about whom to root for. So formula that worked here is not necessarily taking fantasy out of realistic characters but simply make them live in crescendos and crescents. Series developers may have wanted viewers to believe such transitions happened over the time- but that is another failure to which I will come back later. Daenerys’ character is one primary shinning example- girl with empathy in heart just turns evil. Her character was so confused and literally begging to be done justice with in last season. But as I said, its just one example. And…