When I was a TV-obsessed pre-adolescent, I loved the series Three’s Company. Technically, I was probably too young to be watching it, but all the “adult” humor flew right over my head1 as stuff that grown-ups must think is funny. I just treated it like a live-action cartoon. But even as a pre-teen, I quickly got frustrated with it. This is dumb. They could easily avoid all of these wacky hijinks just by explaining the misunderstanding! I mention that to establish that I’ve got a long history of fundamentally misunderstanding how fiction works. For the record, I really despise Game of Thrones as well, for being nothing but contrived conflict and despicable behavior among irredeemably awful characters, just to satiate audiences’ bloodlust to see people get tortured and brutalized, I guess. It went past “not for me” to kind of quietly judging the people who like it. I guess I’m also mentioning all of that to procrastinate, because I don’t want to admit the following: I was really…
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