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Apr 14, 2019

How did a strange work of fiction — which features, among other exotica, dragons, eunuch warriors and the living dead — come to have such a hold on our culture? How Game of Thrones became a global phenomenon: [ On.ft.com Link ]

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Daniel Quinn Apr 14, 2019

Not sure why, but this made me laugh hard. What a great show.

Emanuel Teodoru Apr 14, 2019

So, somebody spent time to index these deaths. I hope the ROI will be higher than doing something actually useful.

Daniel Hooker Apr 15, 2019

A fascination with huge amount of death and gore is absolutely nothing new. The Elizabethans for example were rather partial to it. The Victorian masses loved their penny dreadfuls. Modern audiences love horror movies.

Jorge Freire Apr 15, 2019

“Other mammal” is my favourite.

Sarah Harry Apr 14, 2019

Only read the books. The endless descent into chaos and high character death rate takes some stomaching despite the strong stories. He's given himself a big task in pulling it all back out to a resolution from where he has taken it. I fear he has perhaps gone further down than he intended and the task is just too much.

Muchimba Charity Shams Apr 14, 2019

Only 2 natural causes

Thompson Ong Apr 15, 2019

Wildfire, 18?
excuse me?
(oh wait, important characters)

Safwan Zia Apr 14, 2019

Haven't watched a single episode yet

Soukaïna La Apr 14, 2019

Ha l game of thrones Mehdi JarJar

Zsolt Füri Apr 14, 2019

Looks like a very nice story! Then we are suprised how violent our world is nowadays!

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