Modern Nonsense: Game of Thrones has a Scale Problem

Game of Thrones is just too friggin' big. I'm sorry, it is! In this video about Game of Thrones (mostly the show more than the books), I talk about my issues about the Scale of this classic fantasy story. It's just too big! The royal lines are too long, the lands too gigantic, the history too well documented, and the technology too primitive despite having ages to figure it out. I give a bunch of examples of real world situations for why Essos in particular is way too gigantic.

I like Game of Thrones a lot... but man, whenever I think about the worldbuilding it gives me a headache. Lord of the Rings has it pretty bad too, but at least there you can pretty much excuse it with magic and that most of the people aren't human. There, if a royal line is four thousand years old, it's probably Elves, who live to be like, 600 anyway. So I'm ok with that.

Here's another video of mine about some WILD stuff that went down in Norway involving butter:    • Modern Nonsense: The Norwegian Butter Crisis  
And here's one about why the Fermi Paradox doesn't make a lot of sense:    • Modern Nonsense: The Fermi Paradox  

Music credit:
Monkeys Spinning Monkeys by Kevin MacLeod
Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/4071-monkey...
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Scheming Weasel (faster version) by Kevin MacLeod
Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/4326-schemi...
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Also the writers of the Game of Thrones and Civilization VI soundtracks.