I have to tell y'all something about how I got started. My girl actually asked me why I never watched GoT back in January. "Two reasons. #1: HBO. We don't have it. #2: everyone who watches it is all 'OMG! YOU HAVE TO WATCH IT! How can your call yourself a man and not like GoT?! It's the very essence of life, the crown jewel of everything mankind has accomplished! To say you don't like GoT is to say you are not human! It has boobies! You don't like boobies?!"
She knows me, so she got it. But still said "Well I think it sounds interesting. Thought maybe we could watch the first episode or 2, see what we think."
Listen, all I knew about the show was that it was medieval, and there was some 'slow' dude on it. Swear. That's it. I didn't know about the zombies, didn't know about the dragons.
Medieval.
Some main character is slow.
That's it.
First episode. First SCENE. These blue-eyed things take this crew out, one dude escapes, tries to tell folks about them, they don't believe him and he gets beheaded for abandoning his people. Dad is using it as a teaching moment with his son. "If I can give the sentence, I can swing the sword."
Nah, I'm out. I'm not feeling this one little bit.
End of the episode.
Incest. Little boy sees through a window in a tower he was climbing, gets pushed down by the brother who was banging his sister, and of course he thinks he killed the kid.
Zombies, using beheadings as teachable moments, incest, child murder... what... the actual... eff?!
Nah, man. No.
We keep watching a few more episodes. More incest, some pale brother feeling his pale sister up, she gets married to some super-Aztec type dude, receives a wedding gift of 3 dragon eggs that I assume are fossilized or just super old or something.
Nope. She does some ritual and hatches the 3 eggs. Pale sister who was getting felt up by her brother... has dragons.
Why not? Zombies, the life lessons of chopping someone's head off, incest, child murder, and now dragons. Of course.
But of course by the time the dragons were hatched... *sigh*... I was in.
I was attached to the compelling story lines that had begun at that point, and wanted to see where they went.
And now here I am, eagerly anticipating S7.
And like I mentioned, I definitely effs with Dany and Tyrion, but my 3rd favorite character is probably Jon Snow. And again, I'd be fairly impressed if anyone could reason why. To me, it's fairly obvious.