I’m not saying we should like the same things, but my ex and I quite genuinely, without a modicum of exaggeration, broke up because we disagreed about GoT and quite a few fundamental (imo) film-related things. We talked again and again about film, and the more we did, the more I realised that his outlook, life philosophy and what have you were entirely incompatible with mine.
He’s a great guy, but he always rooted for different characters than I did (which, to be fair, is a ‘me’ issue I’ve struggled with all my life), and just generally valued such fundamentally different things about film I couldn’t get past.
It’s still a running joke with my best friend — I met some of her old friends last week, and she led with, ‘Hi, guys, this is AgrippinaX, who dumped an ex over The Game of Thrones’.
I mean, I get this, I have still never forgiven my friends who talked me into dumping 70 hours of my life into that f*cking turkey. And I remind them often.
But, on another note, I have a close friend who, in the Marvel films, is not only totally Team Iron Man, he doesn't understand, in any way, why I or anyone else would be Team Cap. (This is the only time I have ever been Team Anything in any part of Pop Culture, by the way.) He doesn't understand why anyone would prefer Steve Rogers to Tony Stark or even why anyone would care much about Rogers, especially when Stark is clearly the apogee of the human male.
Which is to say, my buddy is a low-grade Tech Bro and Elon-worshipper and, in his mind, none of the failures, ethical ineptitudes, or collateral damage of Stark matter because he is achieving (for better or worse), he is driving things forward (for better or worse), and, most importantly, he is incredibly wealthy (the greatest virtue) and a narcissist (probably the second greatest virtue). Really, in his mind, the man with the perfect moral compass, who has not only the physical strength but the mental strength and will to sacrifice himself for others, to always do what's right over what's popular, to be unerringly just even at his own loss, and to be
humble (eek!)... well, that guy is boring and kind of a sucker... he sure ain't a rich narcissist so how cool can he be?
And I realized that, "Wow, this very simple thing, which of these two characters you identify with, actually told me who you really are, friendship aside. You are a selfish, self-centered, self-aggrandizing, narcissist." Which I kinda learned on my own, hell lots of people told me that, but it was really this "Which character do you prefer" thing that crystallized it for me.
We are, though, still... sorta... friends.