A friend insisted that I try Game of Thrones, which I’d never watched. I’m finishing watching the first episode of the first season. I don’t have much patience for a show that doesn’t grab me on the first viewing, so this is all I got.

Pros:

• Peter Dinklage
• A couple of female lead characters

Cons

• Not nearly enough female lead characters as opposed to male ones
• The lily-white blonde female lead spends most of the pilot episode being terrified of the foreign people whose queen she has been married off to be. The foreign people just happen to be brown, heavy-browed and violent. Her people are white, blonde and speak English.
• The foreign, brown king gives his new pure-white, blonde queen a gift that actually distracts her from her terror for a few minutes. It’s a horse. It’s white.

Besides that, the time period bores me and nothing happened that made me want to keep watching. So much for me and Game of Thrones.

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