I watched the first episode of the first season and did not find anything attractive in this series, maybe the sex scenes made it so popular? What do you think? On social networks, this series is called the best in the history of cinema, but I think this is the focus of a PR company.
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Because, despite being set in a fantasy universe, it is closer to life than most fiction in several important ways.
First of all, any character can die. I'm not sure this was ever done before. Normally, you have your core cast, and whatever trouble they are going through, the question is how, not whether, they'll get out of it.
Life doesn't work like that, and neither does GoT. You can't assume someone is safe just because they are central to the plot, or a lot of time and effort has been invested in fleshing them out, or they are a child and nobody likes to think about dying children. Anyone can die at any time, and you don't get any build-up, any sequence of events leading inexorably to a tragic end, any attempts to create a narrative that would make death somehow meaningful and so on. It's just another day for all they know, and then they die, that's all.
Same with things that happen in the plot. You know Chekhov's gun? The principle that states, if there's a rifle hanging on a wall in the first act, it must be fired in the third act. It was meant for 19th-century theater, but people still do it.
Again, it's not a thing that happens in life or in GoT, which makes both unpredictable. Somebody does something on the screen, you know where this is going, been there done that could as well switch to another channel, but that's not how things are unfolding. Most fiction is made the way math problems are presented: you have a car driving from point A to point B, not a 2007 green Ford with faulty transmission being driven from point A to point B by an overweight guy who often forgets things and may have to go back for a minute to pick up his keys. In real life, you don't know what will turn out relevant to something else, and GoT does the same.
Besides, it's just aesthetically pleasing. You have your castles, your deserts, your severe northern landscape. They are each color-graded differently, and the rest of the aesthetic is dictated by the environment, which helps avoid visual fatigue. The costumes are excellent. The dragons are silly in essence but extraordinary in terms of the VFX.
I don't think sex has anything to do with it. It's 2019, you can't spend ten minutes online without seeing someone's boobs. I looked up Def Con talks on YouTube the other day and for some reason still got a banner with some chick's crotch in it. For all the gasps about sex in GoT, it's mostly implied. Characters talk, but in a brothel. A guy is drinking, you see him from the waist up, then a prostitute unfolds into the frame, dialogue follows that clarifies she was sucking him off. A guy bones his sister, it's a major plot point because they have children and she is royalty, you see the actual boning once for two seconds and they are both dressed. And so on: nothing you haven't seen before
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