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[ArtBest23]

If I'm suddenly interested, do I need to go back and start at Season 1, episode 1?

And if I don't, and go ahead and watch this season's shows, would that ruin it for me later watching the first six seasons?

[justintyme]

I'd start at the beginning. The show is based on a series of books that are really just one long story. Everything builds on things that happened earlier, and there are a lot of moving pieces and political intrigue.

Plus, imo, it is really worth the watch.

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[Youth Coach]

Yes, in order to watch the series, you kind of have to start at the beginning so you understand everything that is going on in the present.

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[cthskzfn]

Agreed. Start at 1-1. I binged a couple of years ago- worth it.

I didn't find a potato chip in my beard though.

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[Randy]

I like to watch action TV/movies when I am working out. A one hour TV show goes in about 40 minutes on the elliptical. I like action much more than drama because I generally get caught up in it the action and work out harder and the time passes more quickly. For example - Walking Dead, Arrow, Flash, Black Hawk Down, Lord of the Rings, 24 all worked pretty well for me. While I liked Better Call Saul, it is not a workout video for me.

So with that as background - I too have never seen 10 seconds of Game of Thrones. Would it be good for what I'm doing?

[justintyme]

[Queenie]

If you don't want to watch six seasons of the show, you can always hit a good recap page.

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[cthskzfn]

I wouldn't call GoT "action" in the usual sense, either.

I wouldn't be such a fan if that's all there was to it.

That's said, there's plenty of blood, gore, sex, fighting, etc.

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[Randy]

Thanks. I might see a few of the initial episodes and decide from there.

[GlennMacGrady]

Definitely start from 1-1. Otherwise, you will miss all the convoluted and shocking plots, intrigue and character growth of the sprawling cast as they've changed, grown older and died.

I binge-watched the entire first six seasons this winter. The one hour recap that's available for season seven doesn't remotely capture the sweep of the first six seasons.

If you just tuned into 7-1, which I watched last night, you would have no idea of the meaning of the first scene in a dining hall. You would also see a dwarf with almost no lines on a ship with a blond, also with almost no lines, and some dragons. You would have no idea that the dwarf and blond have been among the main characters in the story. And that same non-recognition would similarly apply to about 10 other important plot characters who will almost seem like random or almost invisible secondary characters in 7-1.

The Game of Thrones is about the power plays, intrigues, plots, murders and battles that seven families keep making against each other to rule the known world, all against a mythological and somewhat magical background history. Meanwhile, in the far north, the real evil is coming after all of them. All this takes years to develop.

Each episode of GOT usually has three or four major plot lines going at the same time, among which the episode shifts back and forth. To understand these plot lines in any given episode, you really need the background of all the previous ones.

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