Quote from: KdogLots of nasty people in that show.  I see it as VERY addictive gratuitous violence.  Pure entertainment and nothing wrong with that, but that is all it is.

Less violent than your average cop show or action hero or war movie, just older weaponry.  Because you only see bombs dropped and explosions the violence seems cleaner.  Many more people end up dead though.

As opposed to most of those shows, this had consistently good acting and writing that fleshed out the chacters and what their motivations and psychology was.  It demonstrates how money and power corrupt people, allowing evil to grow and flourish.   Its also one of the few depictions  I have ever seen of how incestuous the whole system was to createe classes of "highborn" and "lowborn" people.

The magic and fantasy aspects weren't overdone as they usually are in fantasy depictions of the pperiod, and there was a lot of parallels to the evolution of modern religious philosophy.

My main complaint with the show was the final season and how they tied it up at the end.  I found it inconsistent with the rrest of the series and very unsatisfying.  The actions of the characterrs weren't consistent with their prior behavior and it was too facile.  But I guess they were just tired of it and looking to tie up the loose ends.  I could have done it better.  ;D

Anyhow, it gave me a much needed break from modernity and the utter stupidity of today's Game of Thrones.  In one of the nicer tie ups at the end, one of the heroic figures poisons an entire house of one of the nasty families at a feast.  Very satisfying vengeance.

Finally the most important lesson here is that the wisdom "violence never solved anything" is patently false.  The entire history of politics is that the ONLY thing that ever solved anything was violence.

RE