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** Dany has quite the [[Hatedom]]/[[Hate Dumb]] just on her own. Apparently many viewers see her as "the pretty popular girl" and project their [[Wangst]] from high school onto her. This is especially notable among Sansa's more ardent fans, as if the two were in some sort of competition (when there's so far no real evidence the two even know each other exist).
* [[Fantasy Ghetto]]:
** [http://www.slate.com/id/2291119/ Some] of the [http://tv.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/arts/television/game-of-thrones-begins-sunday-on-hbo-review.html early reviews] are placing the series firmly in the ghetto, even so far as to claim [[Network Decay]] of HBO. Not only fantasy / SF blog [https://web.archive.org/web/20120706020817/http://ca.io9.com/5792574/really-why-would-men-ever-want-to-watch-game-of-thrones io9] had a few [[Berserk Button|things to say]] about that, but also [[Internet Counterattack|both fans and other professional critics]] called them out on that outright bias. So much so Troy Patterson recused himself from reviewing the series from that point forward.
** Combine this with fetish fuel. The second review linked above, by Gina Bellafante, claims that all fantasy is boy-oriented, and the sex was added to draw in a female audience (despite much of the sex also being in the source material). The same review claims that "we are in the universe of dwarfs, braids, wenches, loincloth," which seems to indicate that the reviewer didn't watch the show in the first place--or perhaps thinks Tyrion Lannister is supposed to be a Tolkien-style dwarf rather than a human with dwarfism, which goes well beyond [[Did Not Do the Research]] and ''really'' [[Unfortunate Implications|swings for the fences]].
** According to Liam Cunningham, "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=VshOC9l29tQ#t=437s I think it's wrong to call this a fantasy series] [...] it's a proper, magnificent drama show". Because a fantasy ''can't'' be a "proper, magnificent drama," right?
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