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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 5828946" data-attributes="member: 9037">See that is what I felt the other poster was saying that the reason so many people like it is because of the death rate and that was why it was so successful on HBO. That violence and graphic sex is the main appeal.  There is this big assumption that people who like the books like it because no character is safe. I can't speak for anyone else but that is my least favorite aspect of the books and sometimes I feel GRRM just does it to be shocking and some of it is gratuitous. I like the world he built. I like some of the characters. I like his mythology. And no I was not saying that the only reason they stayed with it was because it was in the book. I pointed out that True Blood does things that are not in the books though I think i made have said Blood Ties another TV show based on books.The point I was trying to make was that just because HBO chose to follow the books and use the graphic violence and sex not all shows need to be as gritty and realistic to be good, award winning or successful.My real life is hard. I have both major health and financial issues. In my life I have dealt with some pretty dark things. I have seen violence up close and personal. I have knelt in blood desperately doing CPR for a friend who was shot in the head.I watched the man who kidnapped and terrorized my son get a slap on the wrist because his parents had money. I just went through two years of hell worrying that my son was going to lose his battle with cancer.So I really don't want violence and grim and gritty in my entertainment. Which is why I prefer as I said knowing that for the most part the characters are going to be okay and that bad guys will get what is coming to them. I don't always want realism I want to escape from reality.I watched 24, BSG, Spooks and I have read GRRM stuff and some other gritty novels. But I have to be in the mood for them. Right now things are stressful in my life so I find myself reading more light books like cozy mysteries. I know there are murders but they are not gruesome nor the entire point of the novel and the murderer always gets caught. Or romance novels, light Fantasy and Trek and Stargate novels.I am mainly watching things like the Big Bang Theory, White Collar, Castle , Merlin and in movies I have been watching a lot of the old Cary Grant comedies, Doris Day and Rock Hudson movies and a ton of B horror and SF movies from the 50s. And to be crystal clear on this point I am not implying that only people who have never had violence in their lives or don't have stress want gritty realistic shows.Everybody handles stress and bad things differently.</blockquote>

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