This article comes fromDen of Geek UK.
When HBO first announcedGame of Thronesmany winters ago, it was with the pitch The SopranosinMiddle Earth.
And, in those early years,Game of Thronesmore than lived up to that promise.
Martins saga was in the characters and their relationships, in the refreshing complexity that underpinned everything we saw.
Our honorable hero had a bastard son from a wartime fling.
His noble wife treated said bastard with vicious, undeserved scorn.
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Its funny to think back now and remember that magic was once just a fringe aspect of the series.
Fast forward to 2019, and its impossible to imagine a version ofGame of Throneswithout dragons or White Walkers.
In 2019, were essentially watching a straightforward fantasy epic with more swearing.
Maybe in some ways this was inevitable.
It just took the scenic route to get us there.
But would this be satisfying after eight seasons of following our central characters grow, change and develop?
Maybe I would be less cynical about this if George R.R.
