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		pi-err on June 18, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Battle of Waterloo, as it happened on June 18,... 19th century long form fiction is TV show for the time. Weekly episodes in mainstream newspapers. Hugo, Flaubert, Dumas, Zola used the format for decades. People will find Game of Thrones "too little into a show" soon enough, too.

hrvbr on June 19, 2015 | [–]

10 episodes per season is indeed too little for a show. Especially when you have like 20 main characters.

kitd on June 19, 2015 | [–]

Dickens too across the channel.

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