Is Game of Thrones overrated?

Most definitely...not. Why? Because it's the only fantasy adaptation I've seen outside of the Tolkien ones that seems to care about being faithful to its source. And it's probably more faithful than those as well. Sure it's made it's share of changes but so far it hasn't done anything overly disappointing. Except perhaps the Season 4 ending. They could have had a major cliffhanger in that (fans of the books will know what or rather who I'm talking about) but instead decided to end on Arya sailing away on Braavos. I'm sure I wasn't the only fan of the novels expecting a much different ending to the season.

Edited by adg211288 - 15 Oct 2014 at 12:06pm

Nope. I agree with what Adam said, but also it's a rare case of great source material falling into the hands of people who were actually capable of adapting it into another form and making the appropriate changes so it'll work, while staying as true to the overall heart of the series. Basically: HBO is a channel that carries the kinds of shows that would never make it onto network television without severe changes that would make them much less effective, and A Song of Ice and Fire is possibly the darkest, most mature fantasy series out there. that would certainly never work on network television, and also way too big and overloaded with material to work even as a series of movies (I can't imagine how many movies Peter Jackson would require to show all the events of book 3, for example: The show took two seasons to go through it, and at times we only got the cliff notes versions of less important scenes, with some stuff entirely removed.) So yeah, the series and HBO are pretty much a perfect fit for each other, so it's not surprising the show is as good as it is.

Oh, I think I know the other thing you're talking about now (the epilogue scene in book 3). I'm glad they didn't do that yet, actually. It's not really something I'm looking forward to. I would have ended with a certain scene, especially because it would have fit in perfectly with how the season started. That, and it was my most anticipated scene of the episode.

Well they changed a fair bit of the timeline for the King's Landing plot, so if you talking about what I think you're talking about that event had already happened by that stage, well ahead of Tyrion's escape. 

I've only seen the odd programme. I always imagined the attraction was all the tits on show. Obviously it's deeper than that then

Hail HBO then

f) never watched it

I've been into fantasy (although I prefer scifi) my whole life and somehow I find SoIaF not very good. I like well written books, with elegant plot construction and focus on quality rather than quantity of characters. Martin's books seem to be quite the opposite in my opinion. Style is decent at best, plots are meandering endlessly, there are too many characters and the sole purpose of their existance is either seize power, resist waves of evil or die in a gruesome way (or both). Now, since I have all fans reading that really mad at my arrogant rant, I'll just tell you what I liked  I think character development in some cases is well thought out and interesting (Arya as the good child shaped by cruelty... everyone is shaped by cruelty in this show by the way, the world is cruel and dictates every move of every character regardless of their moral profile). The world is unforgiving and dark even though I don't like the "let's put dragons into a low fantasy setting because... DRAGONS!" Also, the cult of fire plot is a nice touch. All in all it's a hit or miss story with a decently realistic yet a little hardcore depiction of medieval Britain politics. I like it, but I think with its 95% scores it's just heavily overrated.

Edited by bartosso - 19 Apr 2015 at 8:50am

Yes it is 

Is this the show that has lesbian action? If it is then there is no way in hell that it is overrated