It may seem a strange thing for an entertainment blogger to confess…but I think you should all know as the hype cranks up again that I have never seen a single episode, not a minute, not even a preview, of Game of Thrones, ever. And I’m OK with that.
“But the characters! The politics! The sexy medieval sex!” is what you are all shouting at me, I know. I certainly understand the intrigue. But in the “Game of Remote” that already goes on at my house, combined with the “Game of Life” (actual life, not the adorable board game from when we were kids, which is now an annoying iPad app, which is way less fun than poking your sister with plastic peg “kids”) there was just no more room at the inn. The hubs and I rarely agree on the fantasy genre (I am a fair to Mid-World fan, he doesn’t even see elves when heavily medicated) and with so many other blood-soaked, mind-chewing political tales out there to choose from, it just didn’t make the cut.
Five fun things about those other kinds of fantasies
I blame television, and the makers of it, for all of the twisty, intriguing, storytelling going on in so many shows today that it’s actually ushering in all-new glory days of television, or whatever the thing that we come to watch one-hour stories on will be called, because traditional television formatting is going to become obsolete. Now, when I’m ready for TV, TV is ready for me — and boy is it ready for me. In the allotted 45 minutes (hour and a half if we had takeout) that we get to relax after the kids are in bed and before we’re doing mutual head-bobbing on the couch, the choices are so plentiful that I’m like a kid in a candied TV store.
The rest of the blame goes squarely on my squishy constitution. There is only so much mayhem, trauma, and tension-filled viewing that I can tolerate before I turn to an episode of The Mindy Project to cleanse my mind of the twisted viewing that came before. And I have already pledged allegiance to Rick & Co. dispensing with walkers left and right - my dance card has no room for Lannisters, Starks or what looks like a very uncomfortable chair.
What about you? What show did you start, quit, or just never bother with?
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