Game of thrones

Everyone I speak to seem to rave about it so I finally sat through the first 3 episodes of the first series, I'll be honest it's bored me rigid up to press, so a question for folk who watch it, is it a slow burner? I still can't decide whether to stick with it or not.

 

It's a load of *****, I know a lot of women that like it, so it's bound to be crap, made up nonsense

 

Yes but you also hang about with Whitey!!!!

 

I love it, never watched it till Sky Living showed it from 1st season last November and now its probably my favourite.

Sometimes you do get slow episodes which are abit meh.Stick till end of 1st season then decide

 

Depends what you're in to. I can't think of anything worse: magic and dwarves and dragons and far away kingdoms and what a load of *****. But I think all that Lord of the Rings kind of nonsense is *****, so I was never going to like it. If it was a choice between watching a directors cut of The Hobbit or cutting me own **** off, I might choose the latter. However, those in to all that stuff think it's excellent. If you like that kind of thing then stick with it. If you're not, chuck it away and put The Wire or Breaking Bad on if you've not seen them.

 

In each series, it seems to be pretty steady up until the last 3 episodes or so, then all hell breaks loose.

That being said, I don't think I've met anyone over the age of about 30 who enjoys it.

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I agree it's a right load of *****, not for me at all I'm more of a The Wire, The Affair, Luther, Life on Mars,
Peaky Blinders, Broad Walk Empire, Sopranos, kinda kid

 

this is my kind of stuff as well, I thought Boardwalk Empire was brilliant,

 

I'm doing the same. On episode 3 of season 2 now. Still ain't got a clue who everyone is. The ones I did got killed.

Stick with it, it does take more than the first 3 to get into.

 

Im a big fan watch the full 1st series then decide if its for you or not, it will take a while for you to figure out who is who initially.

 

I'm 44 and I like it. Its a program that requires commitment though - you can't half watch, otherwise you'll not know who anyone is. It might be set in a mythical place, but its really just a Machiavellian political power struggle with swords and boobs. Oh, just about every character you like will die.

 

Brilliant series, my favourite thing on TV. As someone said above, they are pretty slow burners until the last few episodes of each season. Worth siting through them just for that though.

I'd say it gets really good from the end of season two onwards. First few episodes of season one are slow.

 

I love it. But if it's not really your thing, I can understand.

 

Can't stand Lord of the rings myself but quite like game of thrones. It helps that early on there isn't really that much high fantasy or magic, and quite a lot of historically-inspired politics and war. It also steers well clear of most fantasy stereotypes- elves and dwarves and trolls and the suchlike.

There is the occasional bit of magic, but I tend to not like those episodes! Game of thrones is definitely absolutely nothing like Tolkien, which is tedious high nonsense.

 

I quite like it, but as far as I can see the general plot line throughout is along the lines of, ride about a bit, meet somebody cut cut slash slash, woman whips her t**s out, quick shag, repeat from beginning

 

It was described back when it came out as 'the Sopranos with swords'.

Not got elves and orcs and stuff like that in it.

It's set in a medieval setting (loosely the war of the roses), and the author said that the only fantasy elements involved are things that people back then believed in. The 'dwarf' in the show is a dwarf as in a modern-day meaning of the word - a short person (don't know how to describe what I mean in a PC way).


I think it's quality, if you can't guess

 

I was probably being unfair, I've only watched one episode in full and seen bits as my wife watches it. But anything like that just turns meet straight off.

 

I'm other way round. Love the Lord of rings/hobbit etc, but game of Thrones is a borefest I just can't get into.

 

I just like good TV. Lots of things mentioned on here (Sopranos, Breaking Bad et al) I would say are some of my favourite TV ever (though nothing touches Twin Peaks).

I really like it - having read the books it helps though, like the books, it has a tendency to be reduced down to basically, people talking ('That reminds me of a story I was told once...' - that kind of thing). There are some really fantastic standout episodes and there are some real duds - the current season that has just ended has more than its fair share of the latter but one or two of the former.

I'd say stick with it but, if you aren't really fussed after the first series I suspect you won't be fussed by anything else that comes along. It merely gets more nuts!

 

I quite like it, but if you watched the first three and aren't bothered then I would pack it in, because the tone is set pretty early with this show. I didn't think I'd be bothered about it, but I recorded and watched the first couple and it was much better than I thought, even though it has that knuckle dragging wife beater from the Manor in it, so I've stuck with it.

Loads of well known faces pop up in it. Even Wilko Johnson turns up at the end of the first series!