No, Game of Thrones didn’t take place in Medieval times lmao. Dragons and wizards didn’t exist in ye olde England.
It would be funny if people did this with more recent time periods and fiction. Like people genuinely thinking that victorian times had giant steampunk spider robots.
I will say it is a little concerning how often I hear people say shit unchallenged like “It takes place in the old days” about something that is a fantasy world that never actually existed. Makes me worried people can’t tell fantasy from reality.
Edit: This petty rant is because I was talking about GoT with a friend and told them that the constant sexual assault put me off watching it and they were like “Yeah, but that’s what it was like back then.”
I used to be a bit of a medieval history nerd and my friend got annoyed with how many “medieval facts” I liked to blurt out in simple conversation. So I ended up proposing a TV show called “In Medieval Times” where I would be dressed as a king eating a big ass chunk of mutton and he’d be dressed as a Jester and just angry and depressed all the time.
Lmao I love it
I’d watch the hell out of that