Originally Posted by
Sloppy Joe
Wow, I guess the following excerpt from my blog is going to piss a lot of you off. I was writing about my perspective on 'American' things while living abroad for the last year. I have since finished season one and like it a little bit more but still stand by what I wrote:
TV:
I have heard the most about Game of Thrones and Walking Dead from the internets throughout the last year and am currently halfway through the former. The medieval fantasy genre never really appealed to me; I do like Lord of the Rings but found the movies a bit monotonous until I read the trilogy. I don't know if it’s the antiquated English or the seemingly endless horseback jaunts through forests but anything medieval usually sets my brain into full-blown ADD mode. My initial impression of Game of Thrones is that it feels like fan fiction written by a sixteen year old whose primary interests in life are fantasy RPG's, movies chock full of gratuitous violence like Braveheart and 300 and explicit pornography. *Spolier Alert* Over the first six episodes I have witnessed a horse decapitation, an eight year old being breastfed and Tommy Carcetti from The Wire ‘tutoring’ a pair of prostitutes while metaphorically musing on the meaning of life. It's safe to say that I don't really see the appeal to anyone over twenty. I might give Walking Dead another chance when I run out of other things to watch but was bored after the first three episodes. I need more than zombie gore to stay entertained.
Wow sorry to hear that. If your looking for a really good USA TV sitcom, I don't think you would be disappointed in Sons of Anarchy.
I also have an opinion on why many of us Americans, may feel differently than most Europeans, about these kind of medieval fantasies. Just don't have time now. Try SOA though, I would be shocked to hear you don't like it.