Is Game of Thrones an original idea?

Often times TV shows tend to try and paint a picture that somehow links up with the real world. Creating situations that you might come across on a daily or maybe even a yearly basis. That somehow our normal lives can cross paths with our entertainment…Although I am not sure this is ever the case in Game of Thrones.

                It is no secret that Game of Thrones is one of the most popular TV shows out right now. What is it about this fictional? Why can we not seem to get enough? I believe it is because it is not like the real world, that it is not the same old situations told over and over again. It is fresh.

The interesting thing about it is that there are hard core fans of the books and that of the shows, but as we know they do not always clash that well together later in the TV show series. One has to wonder why the show chose to stray away from the books. Is it that the books could not keep up with the thirst of the fans, or was it that the social media has changed the way that we now view movies and TV?

Do we, the people, have the power to stop a TV show from killing off a character? or making an event be pulled from the recording? Are we that far involved that we can affect not only the bottom dollar but the fates of our favorite characters?

I think we do have this power and I think that social media and blogs like this one are the one holding the cards in the final outcome. We have become not only consumers of products and services but in the making of our own entertainment. We just have to have our way no matter what the circumstance are, or who it effects.

This makes me think that we are missing out on true entertainment and the production companies bowing down to the mighty media will not be a good thing for show business. We can already see this in the movies that are coming out now days. They just keep remaking the same movies over and over again. Some of the most recent ones are Point Break, Poltergeist and Charlie and Mad Max to name a few. Where have all the original ideas gone?

There is such a vast well that we can draw as a creative yet destructive species. There is potential in everyone and there are ideas that if brought to life just will not die. I think we see this most in the Indie world. Indie music and movies are becoming more and more part of the norm. We also see this products in like the craft beer and organic foods. There is a movement away the social and cooperate owned media.

That is where Game of Thrones lies, in the feasting and itchy underworld that is an “original Idea”. It dares to go against the norm so much it does not even follow the books it was based off of. It employs mostly actors that are not from the United States and hires ex-porn stars to do nude scenes. How could it not be one of the most unique shows on TV?

Other shows and productions companies should take note from this and the Indie industries and realize that people want they have always wanted…what they don’t have.

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