I blame the Battlestar Galactica reboot. That was insanely successful while being dark and moody, so networks in the coming decades kept trying to chase that kind of success in their own shows by making them dark and moody as well. Game of Thrones seems like someone decided to take a LOTR-like medieval world and give it the tone of Battlestar Galactica.
I blame the Battlestar Galactica reboot. That was insanely successful while being dark and moody, so networks in the coming decades kept trying to chase that kind of success in their own shows by making them dark and moody as well. Game of Thrones seems like someone decided to take a LOTR-like medieval world and give it the tone of Battlestar Galactica.