Thread:Milks26/@comment-26247132-20160307011504/@comment-26247132-20160622035926

It's marketing tactics gone wrong. They see the popularity of GoT and try to mimic aspects of it to draw the audiences in. I struggled through watching three seasons of GoT and the only appeal I could see was it allows people to watch porn and gore without embarrassment and make them sound pretentious while doing it. *shrug*

Marketers see "shock" and "anybody can die" and "depraved" and other buzz words and think that's why people watch. Well, it was "shocking" when GoT did it (maybe) but when 30947328758432 shows copy, it's not a shock anymore.

Marketers also don't have an appreciation/knowledge for literature so they don't realize storytelling at its core is to ultimately provide escape from reality, not for hacks to present their badly regurgitated and often ignorantly offensive versions of reality.