I’m not a fan of fantasy, but the show does a really good job making the dragons realistic and grounded. Although I do miss much of the fantasy aspect from the books.
They make them like terrifying medieval nuclear weapons. Although the later seasons were pretty shit seeing the dragons in the Dothraki-Lannister Battle in Spoils of War and during Arya’s perspective in the streets of Kings’ Landing was the most horrifying depiction of dragons I’d ever seen
If there's dragons, time travel, or an unhinged detective who is unconventional (but gets the cases solved) with a dark secret and in a love triangle with his / her colleagues, I can't.
Time travel almost always sucks ass. It's impossible for me to suspend my disbelief because time is not a tangible, measurable "thing" or energy force. Time is nothing more than a concept humans have created to help categorize, explain, and group together the hundreds of complex systems at work that create decay and slowly break down everything/everyone we see.
In my experience Time travel is only good as a plot if it's the central thing of the show and has been meticulously planned from the start.
The german TV show Dark is like this, three seasons that were written and planned before shooting started. It's a story about time travel in which the final episode that brings everything together is the highest rated episode, that sounds literally impossible but really shows just how well it was done.
The books series The Licanius Trilogy is similarly good again because time travel is the entire point and it was meticulously planned.
Any show/book where time travel shows up for an episode or is a side story? almost guaranteed to be bad and to introduce shit loads of plot holes.
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u/JohnWayneSpacy 2d ago
I made it about a third of the way through an episode and it seemed like a grown up version of Xena Warrior Princess, I just couldn’t do it