Game Of Thrones: 10 Reasons It’s The Best TV Show Ever

3. An Absence Of Archetypes

At first glance it may seem like archetypal characters are in fact everywhere in GOT, but this is quite simply not the case. In characters like Tyrion, at first glance you may think we're dealing with something of a fool, the laughing stock of the family and a jester-like dwarf. But as the show wears on, we see Tyrion is actually one of the most complex characters of all; a philosophical, whimsical man with sharp-wit and a good conscience. The bleach-blonde virgin Daenerys, who gets married off to a foreign king certainly doesn't stay that way for long. She quickly becomes sexually liberated, streetwise and powerful beyond measure, crushing stereotypical gender roles and a fair few man hearts along the way. Even the plotting queen Cersei seamlessly moves between honourable mother and incestuous schemer, impossible to pin down with labels and a world away from what audiences historically expect from a queen. It's this inability to gauge any of the show's characters that keeps us hooked episode after episode, as we truly don't know what's going to happen, or even what we want to happen.