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I've been binging this, and it's striking how much this feels like Game of Thrones with jokes and fewer dragons. (It's about equally horny, although happily, it all seems to be consensual, which isn't really the case in much of GoT.)
If anything, though, I feel like I'm getting more gaming ideas from this show than I do from many overt fantasy shows. The creepy patriarch of the church at first appears to be just a gross villain, as many members of court do, but rapidly becomes more complex, as almost everyone in court does. I could definitely see playing a cleric (or running an NPC cleric) who combines both a genuine passion for their religion and their god with being someone who needs a whole lot of psychotherapy and who communes with his god with hallucinogens and chafes at the restrictions he believes his god put upon him.
Similarly, Peter is a villainous character -- cavalier about others' deaths and capable of snapping and killing someone on the spur of the moment -- who turns out, later on, to be a genuinely devoted and caring father. It's not the normal evil emperor type one sees.
Anyone else watch it? It appears the series is dead after three seasons, so there's about 30 episodes available on Hulu (in the US).
If anything, though, I feel like I'm getting more gaming ideas from this show than I do from many overt fantasy shows. The creepy patriarch of the church at first appears to be just a gross villain, as many members of court do, but rapidly becomes more complex, as almost everyone in court does. I could definitely see playing a cleric (or running an NPC cleric) who combines both a genuine passion for their religion and their god with being someone who needs a whole lot of psychotherapy and who communes with his god with hallucinogens and chafes at the restrictions he believes his god put upon him.
Similarly, Peter is a villainous character -- cavalier about others' deaths and capable of snapping and killing someone on the spur of the moment -- who turns out, later on, to be a genuinely devoted and caring father. It's not the normal evil emperor type one sees.
Anyone else watch it? It appears the series is dead after three seasons, so there's about 30 episodes available on Hulu (in the US).
