It was dominating the discourse everywhere, be it social media or get-togethers. It took its time, but by the time Ilyn Payne had beheaded Ned Stark towards the end of the first season, the world was hooked.
It was truly a humongous pop culture sensation. Game of Thrones was the biggest thing in the world for most of its life. Long episode runtimes, often deliberate pacing and the herculean task of keeping up with such a huge number of characters and plot threads deterred few of us. The quasi-mediaeval setting allowed the story to be about, mainly, power-struggle, between not just noble houses like Starks and Lannisters but between individuals, with all the requisite murders, betrayals, backstabbing and so on. The show had a cast of hundreds of characters, and thanks largely to the immense depth of its plotting, world-building, consistently excellent dialogue, and top notch casting, Game of Thrones cast a spell upon us, every week from spring to summer. While White Walkers, direwolves and dragons made for admittedly impressive spectacle, the biggest reason most of us watched Game of Thrones was the human drama.
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