How historically accurate is this TV show?
>>1235926
Historically accurate to what YOU FUCKING FAG ITS A FANTASY TV SHOW
GRRM claims to have written scientifically accurate dragons, and says one of his triggers is seeing scientifically inaccurate dragons
>>1235926
lel
Other than everyone stabbing each other in the back, not at all.
The religions are very interesting g though.
The seven are very much based on jungian archetypes that appear in many pagan pantheons.
>>1235970
I'm guessing he means wings scaled in proportion to body size and weight.
it's not even good world-building, let alone historical accuracy
the writing is ass too
>stock up on food to last through years of winter
>noble houses that last thousands of years without changing names
Not at all anymore than Lord of the Rings is. It is basically the anti Lord of the Rings, though. Whereas Lord of the Rings idealizes the Medieval, Game of Thrones paints it in the exact opposite strokes, and then adds a lot of porn to make up for the lack of love.
>>1235986
people assume that the drowned god religion is just a cthulhu-style religion, but it's a hypothetical reversal of the ur-myth of the protagonist sky/storm god triumphing over the antagonist water monster/god, seen again and again in indo-european and near eastern mythology: zeus vs typhon, baal vs yam, thor vs jormundgander, indra vs vritra, teshub vs illuyanka, even "the spirit of god was hovering over the waters"
>>1235926
It's not historically accurate to a goddamn thing it's a stupid fucking TV show.
Their depiction of feudalism is pretty accurate
It should've been based on the Thirty Years War instead of the Wars of the Roses. More interesting, the clash between ideologies and the major European powers' involvement in it makes it much more interesting than some feudal succession wars
>>1235926
Pretty accurate. Were you not taught about the Dragon Age in high school history class?
>>1235926
Stop.
>>1236319
I disagree. I think Westerosi feudalism, at least until the War of the Five Kings, is too static.
Of course, the reason for that is narrative convenience, you can't tell a good war story with borders like the Holy Roman Empire and the noble families having lands all over the continent thanks to previous inheritances.
There is also the problem of the lack of cities. Medieval rulers were always granting charters to cities in their domains, to expand their tax base and fuck off with bothersome aristocrats, meanwhile in Westeros there are only five cities, and two of them are glorified villages.
It also gives the false impression to normies that Medieval society was like depicted in the show, that every court was like the Byzantine court, and every medieval war was like an English chevauchee in France during the 14th century.
And that's quite unnacurate too.
>>1235970
you mean ones that are non-existant
Book is so much better in the lore and world building department.
>>1236413
Yup, watched the first 2 seasons to recap for the 4th book and they are shit in comparison
>>1236356
the cities thing makes more sense when you recall that theres year+ long winters in Westeros. honestly Westeros should probably either be a way less developed society on account of everybody fucking starving to death, or a way more developed society with a public granary system and bureaucracy to administrate it like ancient China.
the real problem with Westerosi feudalism is that it isn't grounded in anything. we know where feudalism comes from. it's what happens when you combine the Roman-agrarian system of estate ownership with the Germanic-nomadic gift society. you get land tenure in the case where the big man rewards his followers with his booty, but the booty is 40 acres, and so on down to the earls and the churls. thats the whole reason why that social system ever existed. granted it later expanded into areas where neither Romans nor Germanics ever held sway, but that cultural mixture is the basis for its existence. in westeros feudal society seems to just kind of exist and the westerosi seem to assume its existed forever. tbf Martin doesn't say they are right to assume this, but he doesn't posit any real alternative either.
>>1236319
pffff....no. the stakes are played way too high. most feudal houses were not playing "you win or you die" they were playing "you win or you lose some stuff and have to bend the knee". civil wars were just business during the feudal period.
>>1236445
>the real problem with Westerosi feudalism is that it isn't grounded in anything.
to be fair the "small folk" in the book don't seem to be as restricted as serfs.
>>1235970
The fact they can fly makes it completely unrealistic. also the metabolic rate required required to produce burnable fuel to create firebreath is unreal
>>1235926
>How historically accurate is this TV show?
Not at all. The technology types are all over the place. Muh murder all the time makes no sense when talking about Medieval society.
The world makes no sense. Westeros is like the size of South America with a population of 40 million. It should be Ancient Rus levels of tiny principalities, no way it should be unified.
>>1236476
I disagree, during the Tudor period for everyone who was not a king or a queen being in court was a huge risk as falling out of favour meant death
>>1236793
of course, Tudor period was renaissance/early modern. GOT seems to be medieval(ish). early modern era was brutal senpai.
>>1236594
in the books the free folk aren't stone age.
>>1236801
When would you date game of thrones then I would say its 1500s due due to the use of explosives but a lack of muskets
