The fantastic credible. Analysis of the types of likelihood in the Game of Thrones series

Abstract

The audience of Game of Thrones  has been increasing since its premiere in 2011. The loyalty of a heterogeneous audience has turned Game of Thrones into a media phenomenon whose success may be due to different factors, including the verosimilitude of the story , which can be convincing for viewers who look for a fantasy story, a plot of power or a time series.

We approach the principles of verisimilitude, understood as the feasibility of a story to be logical and possible for the viewer.

The first postulates of the plausible appear in the Poetics of Aristotle, but are solidly developed by the semiotics of the 20th century, in the works of Todorov, Kristeva and Metz, which constitute the framework from which we derive the categories of analysis of the different types of verisimilitude: semantic, syntactic, generic and diegetic.

The analysis of the likelihood of the series, points to the logical temporal space of the story and the articulated succession of actions of characters whose trajectory responds to the causality and, therefore, acquires the status of credible, even when dealing with characters that move in an imaginary world.