Your opinion is your opinion and what you do is your own choice... I'll admit I had a similar thing with Serenity.
After watching Serenity, I gave up on it. I considered it non-canon. I wouldn't even acknowledge it for a while. But then I came back to it, processed it and carried on, and now I can watch it and accept it again. It was then I realised, this is exactly what happens when someone close to you dies. You can't accept it for a while. You distance yourself from the truth. But eventually there comes a point where you have to confront it, and you process it, and then eventually you come to accept it. That, I think, is the mark of great fiction- is that it makes you so sure that these characters are real people, that you treat their deaths like the deaths of people in your life.
It's the same for Game of Thrones. The characters that die in 'The Red Wedding' weren't characters that I felt particularly endeared to at the beginning, but after spending more time with them, getting to know them as characters, I recognised them as human beings and came to like them- just like a relationship with real people. And that's what made their deaths so palpable. The fact that you can feel emotion to the point that you can't take it anymore, to the point that you want to stop watching- that's what makes the writing so good.
Dealing with death is all part of being an adult. Life isn't pretty. The success of Game of Thrones is that despite being a fantasy, the world and characters feel real. But if you can't deal with not having a chosen one succeeds over the forces of evil plot, then stick to what you were watching before.
when Wash and Book die.
After watching Serenity, I gave up on it. I considered it non-canon. I wouldn't even acknowledge it for a while. But then I came back to it, processed it and carried on, and now I can watch it and accept it again. It was then I realised, this is exactly what happens when someone close to you dies. You can't accept it for a while. You distance yourself from the truth. But eventually there comes a point where you have to confront it, and you process it, and then eventually you come to accept it. That, I think, is the mark of great fiction- is that it makes you so sure that these characters are real people, that you treat their deaths like the deaths of people in your life.
It's the same for Game of Thrones. The characters that die in 'The Red Wedding' weren't characters that I felt particularly endeared to at the beginning, but after spending more time with them, getting to know them as characters, I recognised them as human beings and came to like them- just like a relationship with real people. And that's what made their deaths so palpable. The fact that you can feel emotion to the point that you can't take it anymore, to the point that you want to stop watching- that's what makes the writing so good.
Dealing with death is all part of being an adult. Life isn't pretty. The success of Game of Thrones is that despite being a fantasy, the world and characters feel real. But if you can't deal with not having a chosen one succeeds over the forces of evil plot, then stick to what you were watching before.