What Makes Shows, Like Game of Thrones, so Lovable?

I think the characters that we love the most the ones we become attached to the ones that become family members if you will we we feel as strongly about these fictional people as we do the living breathing people in our in our world I think part of it is because well we invite them into our living rooms or we sit in a dark Theater with them for hours on end and we love to visit their lives we'd love to hang out with them we relate to their desires we understand their backstories and feel emotion

al about it when they do it something that we don't want them to do bad choices we get really upset and so I think that part of it is not necessarily an obsession but it becomes a very emotional relationship that we have with these people because we see ourselves in them they are us we are them [Music] a good character has a desire that the audience can relate to characters in fictional universes tend to if there's good drama they tend to chase after those desires I like to begin with drama equa

ls danger plus desire and that initial desire can be born of a backstory for example you might have a character whose brother has told her that she's never gonna amount to anything and that becomes a kind of motivational factor it becomes that characters desire I am going to be somebody I'm going to prove to my brother that I can rise up and be a powerful intelligent awesome person and so that's the struggle and it's a desire that we could relate to because maybe someone in our own lives has tol

d us something similar pretty simple plot but it's born out of a back story becomes a desire it becomes a defining moment for a character and desire often becomes destiny that is my destiny I think when a show or film series is coming to an end there's a sense of excitement there's a sense of dread but we know that we want to see that ending we love that show so much we're accepting the fact that it's going to come to an end but it's better to have seeing that show seeing those characters rise u

p in that ultimate conflict if you will and then finally the sort of day numa life will go on we will go on everything will be okay and very soon another story will come along and do the same thing to us all over again when people ask you what happened here thousand the North remembers you [Music] you