re: Is Vikings > GOT?

Vikings is my favorite show right now. I disagree with people who said it was slow. Ragnar went from planning on going west to becoming the Earl in like 6 episodes.

I really like Vikings but GoT is on a completely different level.

For what it is, Vikings is doing extremely well.

Not on GOT level simply bc of budgetary restrictions but it is a very well made show.

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Vikings started off having to air next weeks episodes on Monday via digital because interest was so low.

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you do realize that GOT did the same thing its first season?

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but come on--writing, plot, acting, etc. are all hilariously bad for the most part.

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Not really. Not at all, imo. Ragnar and Rollo are both solid and Gabriel Byrne was good in it, too. The plot jumps around to touch on certain parts of Ragnar's legend. I actually think it's pretty strong all around. I think they renewed it for another season, too.

I made the mistake of watching the first episode of Vikings with my 11 year old son. . . figured it was on the History channel so it couldn't be too bad. (he loved it btw, and keeps asking me when we will watch the next episode)

As a fan of the ASoIF books for more than a decade, I looked forward to HBO's GoT and for the most part have enjoyed the series. Thankfully, it has gotten alot more people interested in the series, so hopefully GRRM can finally get around to finishing the series before he goes the way of Robert Jordan!

That being said, I still get a kick out of how the show so quickly attained "watercooler" status. It has a good story, a good budget and good actors, but people act as if it is the end-all, be-all of fantasy television.
Regardless of how good Vikings is, it will never reach the same pop-culture level as GoT has. Hell, I have friends who have stated outright that Vikings looks stupid and they "aren't into that sort of show", only to throw a GoT series premiere party a few weeks later
Herd mentality at its finest . . . hence the three separate GoT threads on here each week.

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Herd mentality at its finest

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Sums up GOT fanatics perfectly. I like that Vikings is rooted in history. The characters and events are real and the Vikings plagued Europe for hundreds of years.

Is Vikings > GOT?

Lol, no.

Vikings is good though.

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Sums up GOT fanatics perfectly

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Replace GOT with TWD and we can have a discussion.

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Dude, GOT is in the 3rd season and setting ratings records.

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How is that an argument against vikings? I'm finding the first season of vikings considerably more entertaining than the first season of GOT.

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There were several in between that were slow.

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Are you joking??? GOT has the slowest developing plot lines of any tv show I have ever watched. There have been two different points for me where I had decided before watching an episode that if something major didn't happen, I was done with GOT, but both episodes ending up being just good enough.

It really comes down to your preferences, but GOT's ratio of character development to plot development+action scenes is absurdly too high for my tastes. like in the second episode, they spent 10 minutes showing sansa talking to the other two women about how much geoffrey is an a-hole. Who the frick cares, I dont have time for this shite, i want to see something happening. GOT has to take every single little side plot and conversation in the books and give it screen time - which is great if you read the books, but it gets extremely tiresome if you're just a casual observer.