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Few television series have captured the country’s attention and imagination like “Game of Thrones.” Other shows are actually as complex (like “Lost” or “Westworld”) and other shows have experienced rabid yet broad fandoms (think concerning the “The Sopranos” and “Breaking Bad”). But rare is the show which was both.

Much press has been given to equating the end of “Bet on Thrones” and the end of “Marvel’s Avengers,” because neither has much else it compare to. Both are actually cultural touchstones through the entire decade, they are multifaceted ensemble mysteries waiting for being revealed, are both ending nearly simultaneously, they are both leaving a legacy of changing the media. And both elicit deep, honest emotion and connection using their company fans. Fates of GoT Starks and פרסום צימרים Avengers Starks alike come like deaths within the family.

In this time of streaming and פרסום צימרים binging and social media that “Game of Thrones” spent my youth in, precisely what does which means that for shows to go by sooner or later? How has “Game of Thrones” changed the way we watch TV?

The way back when playing field of 2011

When “Bet on Thrones” premiered on April 17, פרסום צימרים 2011, the media world was a different place. Netflix had only begun streaming video a couple of years prior and used to be 24 months from creating its first original series, “House of Cards.” HBO Go (the app for subscribers) was only a years old and פרסום צימרים HBO Now (the app for non-subscribers) was several years away. Twitter had half users it lets you do today. And the number of scripted shows on TV was waiting to balloon by 86 percent, from 266 in 2011 to 495 in 2018. On that date, the GoT pilot garnered just 2.22 million viewers, 10 million lower than watch now.