Just as examples:
- I’ve never played a Pokemon game despite being just the right age where my peers were really into gen 1 as a kid.
- I have yet to watch any of the Alien or Predator franchise movies (except Prometheus, which I didn’t realize was in the Alien franchise when I watched it long ago) but am planning on rectifying that when I can get a chance.
- Oh, and I’ve never seen the “hawk tuah” video.
I’ve tried multiple times, but it doesn’t gel with me. Alt history, like you said, bit also ‘lotr with abundant sex’ just doesn’t sit well with me.
And then the world was devastated by the badly written ending, and I felt vindicated without even having skin in the game.
I don’t really think that LoTR and GoT have that much in common other than both being popular and fantasy. LoTR is high-magic, focuses mostly on a small group or two of people, is done in the context of an impending apocalypse, and follows a quest. GoT is low-magic, follows many different story threads, and is mostly people navigating their political and social environments.
They both have dragons, both have some important characters be nobles, and both are kinda faux-European, but I can’t think of all that many things that really tie the two together. I’d say that most fantasy that I’ve read is significantly closer to LoTR than GoT is.
That being said, I’m basing this on the books.
Oh yeah Tal, my reference point for fantasy is only LOTR. So the people telling me to watch Got because I was a big Tolkien fan might have instilled the comparison in me.
But I lacked the staying power to get a proper comparison