GoT delivers cheap thrills ... and chills

GAME of Thrones is like pizza – there’s not really much nutritional substance to it but as long as you don’t take it seriously, expecting a gourmet meal prepared by a master chef, then it’s quite an entertaining way to spend an hour on your couch.

Although afterwards you are likely to feel slightly ashamed that you enjoyed it and there is always the chance of acid reflux around 3am.

Not taking it seriously means accepting that it is fantasy and so not all the rules of normal life will apply. Fire-breathing dragons, armies of dead people and men with second sight living in trees are just some of the clues that this is not taking place in Bearsden.

Even so, there are some things that are so contrary to common sense that they tend to irritate the viewer like sand in underpants.

For me, it’s hats. The only time anyone ever wears one is if it’s made of wraparound metal and comes with dangerously sharp handheld accessories.

Most of the action takes place across deserts, drizzly islands, snow-blasted moors and mountains. Yet everyone goes about as if sun-stroke, nasty chills

Did their mothers never tell them they’d catch pneumonia?

and frostbite of the scalp were things that happened to other people.

Take the latest episode. A squad of gruff and hairy men ventured into the snowy wastes on a mission of some sort (sometimes my attention does wander). It was perishing, as snowy wastes tend to be.

Our heroes were all wrapped up in cloaks and furry boots. But not one hat.

And as everyone knows, if you do that all your body heat will disappear through your head. Even in fantasy snow they’d be dead in five minutes.

Then a woman came to help them, riding on the back of a dragon. She was wearing a very modish winter coat with white fur trimmings and a nice hairdo, miraculously held in place by fantasy hairspray. But no hat.

I ask you. Did their mothers never tell them they’d catch pneumonia? Actually, bad mothering seems to be at the root of many of the problems in this tale.

On the evidence of the frequent nocturnal activity, no one wears a vest, either.