If you’ve read the books then you should doubly watch the show. Because Martin ain’t ever gonna finish the books. 
Frankly I’ve abandoned waiting and will be satisfied watching the ending. He and the show runners are the only ones who know what’s intended.
…and it’s back on the air again soon, yeah?
Was coming back to post conversation with a visiting German colleague.
Me: Do you watch Game of Thrones?
Him: What’s that?
Me: The one with the dragons and all the people dying?
Him: Oh! Yes. I like that show. I started reading the books but gave up and just watch it now.
(sorry, know it’s fantasy and not sci-fi…)
I read about half the first book and put it down. Havent gotten the motivation to pick it back up. Wont watch the show though. Heard there was a bunch of nudity in it and need to keep myself protected.
Yep. Not the best show for any recovery, frankly.
I found that the number of relevant characters slowed my reading down. Once I bookmarked the appendix listing the characters from each family, and started referring to it until I had the characters straighter in my head, it became easier to “sink in” to the book like normal. Dunno if you experienced a similar thing.
I feel that I’m pretty good at keeping track of large numbers of characters. Practiced at it from reading the Wheel of Time. A ton of storylines in that monster series.
That’ll help then. I do okay with characters, but not names… especially when the first name drop and the introduction of the character happen at different times.
I grok this. It took the first half of the first book before I could read at a steady clip, there was so overwhelmingly much to absorb.
Also why I gave up reading the most recent book. It had been so many years since I’d read the rest I was going bonkers only vaguely remembering the hundreds of name drops.
Seen Firefly. Thought that was awesome. Not seen Dollhouse though.
Fighting words… 
Dollhouse was pretty awesome though.
Yes! I was so disappointed it didn’t stick around and they had to rush through so much material at the end. It was well done though.
Weirdest is when you see some of the actors in other shows and you can’t shake the thought that their characters are actually still “dolls”.
I checke out the movie “What Still Remains” on Netflix. I give it 4/5 stars. Little light on action, but the plot and acting are solid.
The Thing from '82 is now on Netflix Going to watch that now. Second childhood trauma after Alien 
One of my favorite scifi-horror movies. Enjoy! The prequel/sequel released a few years ago is good too.
I stopped after they put the first deformed body on the table… I did watch the prequel too, could handle it pretty good. But the old one…phew…
So my family are Trekkies, but I’m still pre-Warp. They’ve respected the Prime Directive and let me come to this stage on my own, but it’s time. Where do I start? Which one brings me up to speed best to dive into the new Picard series when that arrives?
I would go chronologically:
Prime Timeline
Thanks for this thread! I’m a huge sci-fi fan. Has anyone seen Upgrade?? It’s one of my recent favorites. Origin from YouTube originals, and Nightflyers on Netfix were both great too!!
Feel horrible for suggesting this, but go straight to ST:TNG. I rewatched some of it last year and forgot how impossibly much there was back in the days of 23 eps/season. Just that show is like 120 hours of continuous exploration.
(Also, for most of them the real goodness starts at like season 2-3.)
If you got the time though, what Yoda said.