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.”
There’s so many things like this where the pop culture expectation is completely wrong but it’s self-reinforcing so even movie directors who know better have to go along with it. Give me a movie about gladiators where most of the fights are like WWE matches and the stars all do advertisement spots for money, dammit!
Gladiators with product stickers engraved upon their armor like roman NASCAR
But it’s also chariot Mario Kart
One of the Asterix comics has a bit where Julius Ceaser is annoyed at having so many commercial breaks between the shows.