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In reply to the discussion: Am I the only person in the world who doesn't give squat about Game of Thrones? [View all]cagefreesoylentgreen
(838 posts)Youtube keeps insisting on showing me ads for the GoT video game or something, probably because I'm searching out The Expanse videos and that always ends up being described as the "GoT of space shows." (A description I resent, btw, but I'll take it if it gets more people watching an actual quality show.)
I've had friends try to get me into Game of Thrones, but the moment I see it's Western European-based fantasy, I'm bored. That setting is easy-mode because a writer doesn't have to explain too much of the worldbuilding. If one wants to spark my interest, give me a GoT like show but set maybe somewhere in pre-European contact Micronesia with cultural traditions and storytelling tropes set in that time. Or any place that's not Europe-like, really.