Recently I’ve spotted a strange trend in the world of movie and tv series reaction vloggers on youtube. There are still many creators reacting to Game of Thrones, and when they finish, they usually make a poll about what they should watch next.
Besides House of the Dragon, of course, the logical choice would be The Last Kingdom, after all the idea of “Seven Kingdoms” comes straigh out from the Anglo-Saxon history. But it also deals with the big question what does make a good ruler or leader. And they have really awsome battle scenes.
Actually, any other medieval-ish fantasy (there are plenty out there) would do.
Also, if you want to watch a rather classic tv-series, there is Rome.
But I witnessed several times, that Bridgerton won the poll. OK, the show has a very large and very active fandom. And of course, why not. Despite the infantile, emotional unmature imagination of the Regency era, it’s still a quality production in many ways, and has its moments worth reacting to.
But please, don’t try to persuade vloggers saying this show is similar to Game of Thrones.
What do you mean it’s similar? How? Why?
I would really like to understand the reasons.
Are you someone who ususally watch tv-series set in our present time, therefore those rarely occasions when you watch period dramas make them similar to each other?
Or are you from the US, watching stories where mostly US actors talking with American accent, so those ones where British actor speaking mostly with RP English make these show feel like similar?
Because these would make sense from an individual point of view. These can be someone’s own experience of watching tv-series.
But in any other sense these shows are as much different as possible. And saying these show are similar can be quite misleading.
I’m aware, that we are at the edge of collapse of basic human interactions (just think about how we can’t have normal conversations on social media without misunderstanding each other anymore), but I still think that when someone says, that a show is similar to Game of Thrones, other people understand it that way, that the show, like Game of Thrones, is about power and leadership, an there are political plots and scheeming, also battles set in medieval-ish enviroment.
And surely not about the oversimplified re-imagination of the world of 18th and early 19th centurian novel of manners genre, what basicaly Bridgerton is.
