- Every scene is violent.
- I didn't want to get too invested in any of the characters
because then they're gonna get killed.
- What is a "Game of Throne"?
♪ (ragtime music) ♪
- (FBE) So before we jump into today's videos,
we want to know what you can tell us about
Game of Thrones. - Absolutely nothing.
- I don't know a "Game of Throne" is.
What is a "Game of Throne"?
- I can tell you that it's very popular.
I've got friends who are addicted to it.
- I don't watch it. I don't like it.
I tried once or twice, and I just can't get into it.
- I really like it. (laughing)
I had to go back and kind of catch up
and kind of binge it.
- It looks like just-- I love that kind of stuff.
What I've seen of it and what I've watched
on the internet... (sighing) it's just wonderful.
- It's a fantasy.
It takes place in sort of a medieval world
with seven or eight kingdoms, all vying for power,
all vying for leadership.
I've watched it a bit and I wouldn't say
I was a zealous follower.
- (FBE) So since you don't really watch Game of Thrones,
what do you think the plot may be?
- "Game of Throne."
Well, it would be like a chess game because you have
the characters that you're dealing with,
kings and queens.
- I feel that it's fantasy oriented.
There is a battle for the throne-- game of thrones,
as I imagine they're jockeying for position
and trying to take over.
- (FBE) So we're gonna show you a trailer
for the current season that is airing right now,
as well as clips from the previous seasons.
- Oh, whoopie. (laughing)
- All right, great.
Boy, this is very popular.
(silence)
(gate sliding)
- Winter is here.
Oh, Jon Snow. Just-- don't you just--
I just love Jon Snow so much.
- I know that's Jon Snow.
How could anyone not know that?
- It's interesting. It's very interesting.
♪ (dramatic music) ♪
- And that's Daenerys, the blond one.
♪ (dramatic music) ♪
- Even the music is good.
- (Jon Snow) For centuries, our families fought together...
- It sounds medieval.
- Wow!
- (Jon Snow) Despite their differences.
- And Tyrion. (laughing)
- (Jon Snow) Because the enemy is real.
♪ (dramatic music building) ♪
- It's cool.
It's got all the great fantasy stuff.
- (Jon Snow) It's always been real. - Wow.
- Wow!
(battle cries)
- It's captured everyone's imagination.
It's so popular.
- Oh, there's monsters, too.
- The special effects are phenomenal.
♪ (dramatic music) ♪
- It's violent.
- A lot of action, a lot of death, a lot of scary stuff.
- Oh, I just love all this stuff.
♪ (haunting music) ♪
- And a fun time was had by all.
It looks great.
- It just looks wonderful.
I mean, it's so me.
- You just don't know what's gonna happen, you know,
and there's so much coming together,
and it's like, "Oh, what's going to happen?"
I'm afraid to root for anybody
because then they're gonna get killed.
- A lot of killing. I don't see any merit in it.
It's entertainment, but not my type.
- I like historical fiction and going through the past,
but these other worlds or whatever it is,
I just can't get into it.
- (Walder Frey) I feel I've been remiss in my duties.
My king has married, and I owe my new queen
a wedding gift. - Uh-oh.
He's got on chainmail.
- Somebody had a plot. - (Catelyn) Robb!
(scuffling)
(unsheathing dagger)
- (squealing)
- (in disgust) Oh!
- Oh, and she's pregnant.
Oh, man.
(arrows loosing)
(man grunting) - Chaos in the kingdom.
(arrows loosing)
- This does not appear to be a democracy.
(men crying out)
- Oh my god. Very, very disastrous.
- I guess if you watch it long enough,
you get into the people, and then maybe it means more.
- (Catelyn) Lord Walder, enough!
Let it end! Let him go.
Or I will cut your wife's throat.
- (Robb) Mother...
- There's nothing human beings really won't to do
for power and wealth.
- (Bolton) The Lannisters send their regards.
(stabbing)
- I thought Robb was gonna be the guy, you know?
- Oh my gosh!
- (Catelyn wailing)
- I loved how Arya got him in the end, though.
(body collapsing)
- That's a lot of violence.
(throat slitting) - Buh-bye.
(chuckling)
(throat slitting) - Not my thing.
- Ugh! (laughing) That's gruesome.
- I gotta get this and watch this, I swear.
- I just don't get the point why killing scenes
are so popular and why do people accept that?
- If you don't like something, you don't have to kill it.
If I were a young kid, I'd probably have nightmares from it,
and a lot of young kids watch this stuff.
- Everybody was like, "Oh, Red Wedding, Red Wedding!"
And I hadn't watched it yet, so I knew it was coming,
because I can't imagine what a surprise that would have been.
I kind of wish I would have seen it and been surprised by it
because that would have been so intense.
- (FBE) So years after the murder of her family in that wedding,
one of their surviving family members came back.
- Oh, that's wonderful.
- Uh-oh, revenge. I'll just bet you anything.
- (whispering) It's Arya.
- Oh, that's Maisie Williams.
- (Arya) My name is Arya Stark. - She's young.
What's she going to do?
- (Arya) The last thing you're ever going to see
is a Stark smiling down at you as you die.
(unsheathing dagger) - There you go.
- (squeamishly) Oh!
- That's a quick way to power, kill your enemy.
- So a revenge killing...
Again, killing, killing, killing, killing.
What's the point of all this killing?
- Kill everybody? Solve the problem.
- She's so just, you know, a sweet girl,
but she's so brutal.
But she saw her dad get beheaded,
so I guess that changes a person.
- I'm beginning to think there's a lot of messiness
that's going on in the neighborhood.
- She can always call on her dragons.
(dragon screeching)
- Oh, there's Peter.
- Tyrion, he's the best.
- What's got everyone's attention? Those are nasty masks.
- She summoned a dragon.
- That's a fire breather.
- They just made crispy critters out of people.
- Now she's climbing up there. Woo-hoo!
(dragon roaring) - What to do?
- (Daenerys) Fly. - Oh, she's going to ride it.
- It's dragon time.
- Wee!
- How did they film that? That is awesome.
- Up she goes.
- You can fly around on the back of a dragon, wow.
Must be nice.
- I can see where you'd get addicted to something like this.
This is mind boggling.
Special effects just off the charts.
♪ (ominous music) ♪
- These guys... (sighing) They're the scariest.
- Guh.
Oh-ho-ho-ho! Holy cow.
- Oh, look at him.
- You've got the good guys, the bad guys...
and the bad guys are nasty.
- (Jon Snow) Quickly! - It's not gripping me so far,
but I don't mean to be a downer.
- Everything is violent.
- Where's the dragon when you need him?
- Yeah, he's the scariest.
And people need to listen to Jon Snow.
He's seen him.
You gotta believe him that they're out there.
- Oh my gosh, he looks like a devil.
- Uh-oh, what's he gonna do? What's he gonna do?
It's gonna be cool. I don't know what it is.
(corpse inhaling)
- Now he's getting even more people on his side.
- Uh-oh.
- Oh, he got zombies now.
- Okay, so this guy can create the living dead.
- Hordes and hordes and oodles and oodles of violence.
That does not appeal to me.
- I didn't like it when I came in, and I don't like it now.
Every scene, people are dying left and right
in whichever way you can think of.
- I kind of got into it because it reminded me
of medieval times.
- I'm excited to see what happens.
I didn't want to get too invested in any of the characters
because then they're gonna get killed.
- There's so much going on.
It's so powerful and some of it is so good,
and some of it, you're looking at, "Gosh, that is so dark."
But there's a fascination with darkness.
- (FBE) So Game of Thrones is currently in its seventh season
and is planning to end its run after its eighth season next year.
- (gasping) Mmmm.
There's gonna be unhappiness in the land.
- (FBE) So the show is arguably the biggest on TV right now,
with the most recent season's premier reaching over 26 million viewers.
- Well, I'm not among them. (laughing)
- (FBE) The show is so popular, but many people think
elders are not the ones watching it,
so is this a show that elders can enjoy?
- No. Hell no.
All that killing?
That wasn't part of our thing as we grew up.
- I don't think so.
Remember, I lived in an assistant living residence.
That is not something I want to see at my age.
- If you go by me, no,
but I'm not the only elder in the world.
It's such a hard question. We're not a monolith.
There are such different-- like any other generation,
there's some people who would get into it,
and some people who wouldn't.
I think the majority would not.
- I thought it looked great, you guys.
Did it grab me? No.
I'll be really honest with you. No, it did not.
I cannot speak for my fellow elders.
I mean, we had nice ladies who are older than I am
reading Shades of Grey and stuff.
- That's definitely not true.
Like I said, my aunt and uncle, who are quite a bit older than I am,
they love the show.
- A lot of elders can enjoy this show
because it has something for everybody.
It's got defined bad guys and evil, nefarious creatures.
- Well, this elder can.
Life's too short.
You know, I'll give up something else so I can watch this.
I will now be obsessed and a freak, you know?
(sighing)
(testily) Thank you so much, Dallen!
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