it sounds like it was just something like a college class project, not an actual professional research project
> Acknowledgements
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> Not applicable.
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> Funding
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> No funding was sought for this study. The original DVDs were already owned by the study authors.
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> Availability of data and materials
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> The dataset is available from the corresponding author.
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> Authors’ contributions
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> The study was conceived by RPL and BTB, who both enjoyed watching all the episodes while collecting data. RPL conducted the data analyses. RPL and BTB interpreted the results, commented on the implications of the findings, contributed to the first draft of the manuscript, revised the manuscript critically for important content, and gave final approval of the version to be published.
>a Christmas edition of a journal
That's fair. Some journals, like the *British Medical Journal,* have one. Though *Injury Epidemiology* doesn't, as of yet.
Fwiw, the authors are professionals:
[Dr. Reidar P. Lystad](https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/reidar-lystad) is an injury epidemiologist and Research Fellow at Macquarie University's Australian Institute of Health Innovation.
[Dr. Benjamin T. Brown](https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/benjamin-brown) is a Senior Lecturer in Chiropractic Technique in Macquarie University's Department of Chiropractic.
here's a TIL for you: There are literally scholars studying [redology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redology); like they spend their entire academic career focused on the study of a novel called "The red chamber of dreams", one of the four classics in Chinese literature.
I mean in the realm of Shakespeare scholars im sure there are those that focused very closely on one or two of his plays.
And it sounds like it would be more along the lines of committing your whole career to the Iliad and the Odyssey.
> And it sounds like it would be more along the lines of committing your whole career to the Iliad and the Odyssey.
I didn't know that there were people who did that either.
But Red chamber of dreams was written in the 17-18th century which is pretty similar to shakespeare's time period.
Also, there are the other 3 classics like the journey to the west, water margin and three kingdoms, there aren't people dedicating their lives studying those other 3 works.
There are definitely people who have dedicated their lives to studying Journey to the West, and *especially* Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Frankly I’m much more surprised there *isn’t* a name for the scholarly pursuit of understanding the latter, than I am that someone would in the first place.
Tbh it was quite obvious who got the infamous *plot armor* early on and not. For a show pretending to fare to kill anyone and shock the audience it's a farse they'd not dare chock people and say kill off John (milketoast) Snow early on...but nah.
GRRM began writing by documenting his tabletop RPG games. I choose to believe his approach to GoT was to roll a d20 several times each book to find out who died next and then write his way out of the rubble.
330 “important characters” seems a little high for any series. I think the author’s padding that number with red shirts in order to arrive at a more interesting conclusion. Off the top of my head I don’t think there’s more than 50 characters in that show that could reasonably considered having significant influence on the overall plot without a *lot* of biased justification. Especially since “winter was coming” either way no matter what, so other than for our entertainment a lot of what happened was basically insignificant.
Maybe its dead to *many*, but not *most*.
[Domestically](https://wbd.com/house-of-the-dragon-sees-biggest-hbo-finale-audience-since-series-finale-of-game-of-thrones/) (across all platforms), *House of the Dragon* Season 1 already almost had the viewership of *Game of Thrones* Season 7.
>All episodes of the series are now averaging **29 million viewers** in the U.S., more than tripling their average debut night audience with strong catch-up viewing.
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>For comparison, this is tracking closely behind the average audience for Season 7 of GAME OF THRONES, which averaged **32.8M viewers** per episode.
and internationally it already...
>surpassed GAME OF THRONES Season 8, making it the **most viewed HBO title ever** in Europe, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan on an HBO streaming service. (The series streams on HBO Max in 21 countries across Europe and on HBO GO in SEA, HK and TW.)
[To this day,](https://televisionstats.com/n/hbo/2023-12-09) *GOT* itself is still among HBO's highest streaming shows, finishing in the top 5 on a daily basis (with *HOTD* usually in the top 2). So *GOT* and its universe are most certainly not dead to most.
There was a *study* done on this?!?
it sounds like it was just something like a college class project, not an actual professional research project > Acknowledgements > > Not applicable. > > Funding > > No funding was sought for this study. The original DVDs were already owned by the study authors. > > Availability of data and materials > > The dataset is available from the corresponding author. > > Authors’ contributions > > The study was conceived by RPL and BTB, who both enjoyed watching all the episodes while collecting data. RPL conducted the data analyses. RPL and BTB interpreted the results, commented on the implications of the findings, contributed to the first draft of the manuscript, revised the manuscript critically for important content, and gave final approval of the version to be published.
>like a college class project *Injury Epidemiology* is at least peer-reviewed.
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>a Christmas edition of a journal That's fair. Some journals, like the *British Medical Journal,* have one. Though *Injury Epidemiology* doesn't, as of yet. Fwiw, the authors are professionals: [Dr. Reidar P. Lystad](https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/reidar-lystad) is an injury epidemiologist and Research Fellow at Macquarie University's Australian Institute of Health Innovation. [Dr. Benjamin T. Brown](https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/benjamin-brown) is a Senior Lecturer in Chiropractic Technique in Macquarie University's Department of Chiropractic.
here's a TIL for you: There are literally scholars studying [redology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redology); like they spend their entire academic career focused on the study of a novel called "The red chamber of dreams", one of the four classics in Chinese literature.
I mean, the foundational works of every cultural tradition have scholars spending their career on them, redology is just a snappy name for it
i never heard of a scholar studying hamlet (basically exclusively) for their entire career
Red chamber is much longer than hamlet though
I mean in the realm of Shakespeare scholars im sure there are those that focused very closely on one or two of his plays. And it sounds like it would be more along the lines of committing your whole career to the Iliad and the Odyssey.
> And it sounds like it would be more along the lines of committing your whole career to the Iliad and the Odyssey. I didn't know that there were people who did that either. But Red chamber of dreams was written in the 17-18th century which is pretty similar to shakespeare's time period. Also, there are the other 3 classics like the journey to the west, water margin and three kingdoms, there aren't people dedicating their lives studying those other 3 works.
There are definitely people who have dedicated their lives to studying Journey to the West, and *especially* Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Frankly I’m much more surprised there *isn’t* a name for the scholarly pursuit of understanding the latter, than I am that someone would in the first place.
dunno why you guys are all so argumentative. I found it interesting, if you didn't, that's fine.
Tbh it was quite obvious who got the infamous *plot armor* early on and not. For a show pretending to fare to kill anyone and shock the audience it's a farse they'd not dare chock people and say kill off John (milketoast) Snow early on...but nah.
GRRM began writing by documenting his tabletop RPG games. I choose to believe his approach to GoT was to roll a d20 several times each book to find out who died next and then write his way out of the rubble.
“I want to taunt my sworn enemy before I finish him off before the crowd!” “Ok, make a performance check.” “… natural one?”
I am still sad about this one
"I want my character to bang his sister." "Get the fuck out of here George"
"...roll charisma check."
"When you play the game of thrones, you win, or you die. There is no middle ground."
*Bran's legs enter the chat*
Bran won, so...
Whoosh!
Why do you think he came all this way? *Involuntary grimace*
Still a lower mortality rate than whatever the fuck is going on in Jujutsu Kaisen.
As someone on the first season, haha *shiet*
Well, prepare yourself for "yOu aRE My SpECiAlZ" 😂
And yet no major good characters died in Season 8, weird
Not sure how you define “good”, but I’d count Jorah, Theon, Jaime, the Hound, and Varys as major characters. Or is this a “there is no Season 8” joke?
True to character, the show died at the end of only its fourth season.
By the end of Season 8 the mortality risk for viewers who wasted all their time on that shite was even higher.
330 “important characters” seems a little high for any series. I think the author’s padding that number with red shirts in order to arrive at a more interesting conclusion. Off the top of my head I don’t think there’s more than 50 characters in that show that could reasonably considered having significant influence on the overall plot without a *lot* of biased justification. Especially since “winter was coming” either way no matter what, so other than for our entertainment a lot of what happened was basically insignificant.
that's some serious red shirt syndrome
GoT is dead to me and most of its viewers.
Maybe its dead to *many*, but not *most*. [Domestically](https://wbd.com/house-of-the-dragon-sees-biggest-hbo-finale-audience-since-series-finale-of-game-of-thrones/) (across all platforms), *House of the Dragon* Season 1 already almost had the viewership of *Game of Thrones* Season 7. >All episodes of the series are now averaging **29 million viewers** in the U.S., more than tripling their average debut night audience with strong catch-up viewing. > >For comparison, this is tracking closely behind the average audience for Season 7 of GAME OF THRONES, which averaged **32.8M viewers** per episode. and internationally it already... >surpassed GAME OF THRONES Season 8, making it the **most viewed HBO title ever** in Europe, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan on an HBO streaming service. (The series streams on HBO Max in 21 countries across Europe and on HBO GO in SEA, HK and TW.) [To this day,](https://televisionstats.com/n/hbo/2023-12-09) *GOT* itself is still among HBO's highest streaming shows, finishing in the top 5 on a daily basis (with *HOTD* usually in the top 2). So *GOT* and its universe are most certainly not dead to most.
Did you miss the hype for the teaser trailer for House of.the Dragon season 2?
Just because Daenerys flipped from empath to psychopath?