I found out a bunch of my less close friends are huge GoT fans, it's actually pretty great to talk about when you have so many thoughts about it. I only don't talk about it with my one bookreader friend. This one girl described it to me as "the show has absolutely everything I love, except cats". I was curious how other people managed to consume a show so complex, and this guy friend showed me the ipad app he used that portrays all the bloodlines and which is updated every episode. And while we were talking about the show, a friend of his comes by with a hard disk to copy season 3 - his gf had sent him over because she wanted to watch the last season now that it had finished, before they they left on vacation in 5 days.
I just feel kinda proud inside they got it so incredibly right with a fantasy show, which has always been my genre, that it reaches such a broad audience. And this in a time where there are so few shows in the medieval fantasy genre (or "high fantasy" as I think it is called) that I was totally hooked on a mediocre one like Legend of the Seeker and even resorted to watching crap like Xena and Hercules.
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