Cellfish, did you watch any of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy some years back ? Fantasy movies can be an acquired taste, or never "acquired" at all. Then again, Star Wars and Star Trek aren't exactly real either. Except for "Toy Story" and "Finding Nemo", I don't like animation. At all. Come to think of it, once I passed a certain age as a kid, I didn't watch cartoons, it was all westerns for me. I watched GOT, never missed an episode. HOD is just starting, lol, but I find I need closed captioning for this and many other shows, and not just because of my old ears and hearing aids. "Outlander" on Starz is an absolute must when it comes to closed captioning, those Scot accents are brutal.