[Blueflag]

I watched one episode and judged it to be a dark soap opera with lots of CGI, sexy women, and unwashed men.

I passed on it.

[ealgeone]

You’ve seen one more episode that I have.

[ThunderSleeps]

I’ve watched the entire thing and you’re not wrong. Basically a soap opera with lots of swords, sex, violence, a smattering of magic thrown in. Really though, most long running series are at their heart soap operas - all about the character development. In that regard “Sons of Anarchy” was a soap opera with motorcycles, guns, and violence. Similarly “Breaking Bad” with money, drugs, and violence. They all draw people in, the show is just a backdrop, the real story is the characters and their interactions.

[MomwithHope]

I passed through a room where it was being watched and saw just less than a minute. Never watched it after that.

[newfreep]

I watched, at most, 5 minutes of the first episode - found it totally boring.

Perhaps I would have enjoyed it a bit more knowing "Sarah Connor (2015)" was in the cast.

[BBQToadRibs]

II have yet to watch it. Doubt I will.

[Rockingham]

As is often the case with the best and most successful popular entertainment, Game of Thrones smuggles in serious ideas that transcend its material and the superficial aspects of storytelling. In essence, GOT is an extended discourse on power from the perspective of Machiavelli and Hobbes. It is of a conservative temperament.

For example, consider Tywin Lannister's instruction to his grandson and king to be Tommen. Tywin gently warns the boy that being a good king requires not piety but wisdom. The author is saying, in effect, "Hey, you social justice types, the world operates on principles other than what you think. Good intentions are not enough. Wisdom is what matters." These days, saying that too sternly could well get you banned from Facebook.

The Walking Dead is of similar effect. Like GOT, it portrays a fallen world in which bad and lethal things can happen in an instant, with good intentions often a snare. During the 2016 election, TWD was loaded with Trump commercials. After the election, my hunch as to why this was so was confirmed: Trump's team had put a heavy ad buy into the show because their surveys found that viewers of The Walking Dead were unusually receptive to Trump and his message.

In effect, The Walking Dead collected and prepped an audience who were receptive to Trump's appeal. Never have zombies and gory makeup been put to a more constructive purpose.

[GingisK]

We’re happy, then, to have your baseless comments on the series. We find them so meaningful.