Epic fantasy on the screen

My coworkers finally convinced me to watch House of the Dragon, which led me to decide to watch all of Game of Thrones.

My impression is that the same thing that happened to Lord of the Rings happened here. The limitations of the screen force a complex story into becoming just another action movie, and with some added sex scenes in the case of Game of Thrones.

Not surprisingly, the thing that fascinates me the most about the Game of Thrones universe is the religion. The whole Arya Stark narrative and the many-faced God is absolutely fascinating. But you simply can’t trace a slowly unfolding inner journey on a screen. And so all of that gets cut.

That didn’t stop me from picking up the books though! Time to get lost in another slow, meandering fantasy world.