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It is because this series is likely to be the death of decent fantasy literature?

In the same way Stephen King's work was the death of horror literature, maybe.

How so?

Anything mainstream is the devil.

And if you like easily consumable entertainment, you are probably also a satan worshiper.

Game of Thrones is mainstream? Really?

DA

I'm not in the fandom, but from what I can see it kind of is? It seems the show right now. My mother hates most fantasy with a passion, and she a) knows about GoT, and b) has watched enough to have the odd opinion. It does seem to be rather mainstream.

Are you an idiot? It is #6 on the New York Times best seller list.

AYRT

I thought the secret was about the series? Sounds like you're just trolling the thread, as your boilerplate response is "you are/are you/you must be an idiot"

I ran across someone the other week that thought it was perfectly acceptable viewing for families with young children.

I wept for the future of civilisation.

...WHAT.

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I love the show, but it is in no way appropriate for kids under 13. 13-17 is iffy, depending on the kid, but I was watching R-rated movies with plenty of sex and violence at 12, and my mom wasn't terribly concerned. I had the maturity level to understand the media I was consuming was not real and wasn't to be imitated.

It most certainly is.

Just from a "geek" standpoint, I kind of laugh if someone calls themselves a fantasy nerd but they've only read Game of Thrones. I don't mean to be elitist or anything, but I don't think there's anything nerdy about liking something so mainstream? Unless you're really obsessed with it and know everything about it, I guess.

HAHAHAHAHAHA

you think they can pull off a massively expensive production like that without it being mainstream?

it's not like it challenges any norms or anything either. it's nicely retro for the time when men were men etc.

/big fan

I love GoT and yes, I'd consider it mainstream. Maybe not so much the books until the TV show started but these days everyone I know, no matter who they are, has watched at least a couple of episodes or heard of it... and the books sell very well.

I can understand your POV, anon. More than anything, he's been so involved and immmersed in the TV series that I'll be amazed if Book 6 resembles the book canon at all.

I don't think this is fair at all, even as a GOT hater. His writing (hopefully) won't affect anyone else's fantasy writing, besides I suppose a bunch of fan copycats? But I do feel sad if people think of Game of Thrones when they think of the fantasy genre. To each their own, and all, but I hate to think of GRRM as an icon in the genre.

Of course it won't influence many fantasy writers beyond a smidge (apart from as you say the wannabes), but it WILL affect who gets published.

There is that info going round that publishers are growing more reluctant about long epic fantasy settings because of how GRRM is screwing his publisher over with what he's doing with GoT right now.

So, yes, a part of the fantasy genre is going to go out of style for a while because of it.

Nothing of value will be lost, as far as I'm concerned. I never was a fan of the loooooooooooong epic fantasy book series, at all. Prolly a failing on my part, but I could just never do it. I haven't even made it all the way though Narnia or LOTR yet.

Yeah, but some people liked those. They didn't deserve to have their hobby ruined by GoT/GRRM.

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ecause of how GRRM is screwing his publisher over with what he's doing with GoT right now.

What is he doing to his publisher? /curious

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You sound like you have a stick up your ass.

Maybe you've got to accept that just because you're a nerd for a certain genre not everything in that genre needs to be to your liking or absolutely identical. As far as fantasy goes, there are far, far shittier things.

baaaaaw