Can someone summarize Game of Thrones for me? All seasons. In 280 characters? I don't watch it. 
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Replying to @BeckyGMartinez
The world is facing an existential threat that only a few understand. Instead of heeding warnings, terrible families vie for control as the threat grows. Writing and character development is great first five-ish seasons.
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Replying to @richarddmorey @BeckyGMartinez
I mean... this sounds like us and climate change.
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Replying to @o_guest @BeckyGMartinez
I always took this to be the subtext. The last two seasons have been a bit...frustrating...if you read appreciate subtext because these larger themes seem not to matter as much any more.
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Replying to @richarddmorey @BeckyGMartinez
I mean I don't watch GoT, I just read about it online because other people watch it. If so, that's deep. Tangent: but seems like ever since Lost (again, have not watched it) and Passions (have, when a teen) that SF&F and soaps (GoT, Walking Dead, etc.) have kind of merged.
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Replying to @o_guest @BeckyGMartinez
Soap operas were just dramas that happened to be marketed to middle-class women working in the home in the 20th century, right? I didn't watch them, but I can't imagine there was anything unique about them from a dramatic perspective. All drama has the same core elements. >
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> "Soaps" has a pejorative use, but this may has to do with the people's perception of their demographic. Didn't read much fantasy, but mid-20th century sci-fi was in *dire* need of people that could write about human characters and their relationships...
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Replying to @richarddmorey @BeckyGMartinez
I watched some soaps as a teen like Passions and María la del Barrio, not sure the dramatic devices are used or have been used outside soaps until recently. The way they used emotional drama and cliff-hangers is a special mix and other styles of shows like SF&F, e.g., Doctor Who
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or Poirot are (or used to be) more self-contained. I personally have no issue with the devices used by soaps in the general sense but they are addictive AF (for me at least).
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Replying to @o_guest @BeckyGMartinez
At least in episodic TV sci-fi, I identify the beg. of this with Moore-era ST:TNG (overarching plot lines, cliffhangers, etc). Not sure if that’s acc but most evening TV then was self-contained. Tough: imagine trying to catch up on a series without easy access to old episodes...
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*nods* More mystique though too. Australian kid's SciFi as a child was probably way cooler and atmospheric exactly because I missed episodes.
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