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I watched the season 1. That the show is horrible is an objective fact not in dispute. No one likes Game of Thrones. What people like is the idea of it. They like the idea of a show set in a medieval fantasy world that is more complex and adult than Lord of the Rings. They like the idea of rich characters, byzantine intrigues, and stunning plot twists. The success of the show rests entirely on its ability to give you the impression that it delivered on all those things without actually delivering on any of them.
Game of Thrones is written in such a confusing manner–an astoundingly thin plot driven almost entirely by deus ex machina papered over with an avalanche of characters, scenes, and, well, words–that the viewer is by the end of each episode so bewildered that they are convinced that they just saw something complicated, intricate, and brilliantly plotted. But Game of Thrones is simply a television version of Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings. Stare at one long enough, and you are convinced you can find coherent images among the splatters and streaks. Likewise, the viewer–hereinafter referred to as “the victim”–is drowned in so much narrative noise that their brain sees coherent plot and character development points where there are none.
full: http://partialobjects.com/2013/08/game-of-thrones-a-bad-show-disguised-as-a-good-one-part-1/
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