..to think Game of Thrones is Coronation Street with tits and pelts?

[Jewcy]

I am only on episode six of series 1 but I have to say I am finding it interminably dull. Am I missing something here? The acting is shit; there's the ubiquitous (and puffy-faced) Sean Bean spouting forth in his Sheffield timbre; the fat bloke from The Syndicate sweating and bellowing all over the place; and I'm sure I've spotted Eric pollard in there somewhere, too. There are lots of whores, bathing and doggy-style sex (not to mention some rather unnecessary schlurping during the fellatio scenes) but very little else to capture the imagination.

What the actual fuck is going on? Where is it going? How come no-one's heard of the missionary position? What's beyond The Wall? Why is there a woman breastfeeding a twelve year-old? I'm so frigging bored of it all I'm only continuing to watch in the hope that Tyrone and Fiz turn up and get down to some bumming in Ye Olde Rovers Return.

Someone help me to see the light?

It does get better.

It got better for me when a few key things happened, but I agree with you, the first season was dire.

Hmm..

Series one was good! Series two is more violent, so if you prefer that, it might be worth hanging on?

You've only got four episodes left of series one, so it's only four hours, but it may not be worth it if you don't like it. It seems to be something people either love or hate. Never heard it get compared to corrie, though!

I hated it I dont get it at all I normally like stuff like that but I think it is pretentious twaddle I watched 2 episodes

I can't believe I've hung on this long, euphemia. I've read so much praise for it on mumsnet and there were little frissons of excitement in anticipation of series 3 so, naturally, I was thrilled when we got SKY last week. I'm gutted that it's turned out to be a pile of steaming horse shit

Caja, my Corrie reference is down to all t'Northern accents. Seriously, if I close my eyes it's like being at my sewing machine at Underworld

YANBU, it's utter shite.

I love it

I'm northern so I don't mind the accent

Winter is Coming

Ah. I have just seen all the other threads discussing GoT. Sorry to be a bore

YABVU

The stories and the writing are very different to Coronation Street (or at least to how it was the last time I saw it - has Corrie got a shitload better in recent years?).

my friends love it I am when they comment about how good it is, DD bought her boyfriend the leather bound book for his christmas he clapped like a demented seal when he opened it

Yanbu its a pile of pretentious wank and the books are no better!

DD tried to get into the books she is going to the exhibition with her boyfriend I dont think she really likes it either

YANBU to not like it or for it to not be to your taste.

YABU to say it is like Coronation Street, unless by that you mean contains people with Northern accents.

TBH i have never see doggy style in corrie is there a corrie late night somewhere that I have missed

It's had a few dragons over the years though mrsjay

Coronation Street is a story about people.
Game of Thrones is also a story about people.

The way the people fuck one another over in Game of Thrones is a bit more bloody.

I much prefer Game of Thrones. :o

I don't get why it's being called pretentious though? Most odd.

Me neither Wren, it's not trying to pretend to be anything or copy any age from history, it's came from someone's imagination

What a ridiculous comparison.

You are free not to enjoy it but your critique could do with some work ;-)

People kept telling me it'd get better but I didn't have it in me to persevere. I thought it was rubbish.

Trill, I think you'll find I said this further upthread: ..my Corrie reference is down to all t'Northern accents. Seriously, if I close my eyes it's like being at my sewing machine at Underworld

Mama, go and buy yourself a sense of humour

To be fair, I enjoyed the horse having its head cut off and whatsername eating a horse's heart. Crumbs. You'd think I was equinaphobic

So when Christopher Eccleston was the Doctor, was Doctor Who "Corrie with more aliens"?

(lots of planets have a North)

Is it all the "John Snooooo" pronunciation?

I must admit, the thought never crossed my mind, but I always said Downton Abbey was Corrie with tails and pinnies.

If you're waiting for me to apologise for the Corrie reference.. thy'll be waitin' a fookin' long time.