HBO recently released a new trailer for its upcoming fantasy
series Game of Thrones and today announced that they're airing a
fifteen minute clip of the first episode on April 3rd. So the
full PR roll-out has officially kicked into high gear, and while
clips and photos indicate that it's certainly grand and gorgeous
looking, can it ultimately work as a series?  It's not the most
original question to pose, I guess, but the closer we get to the
series premiere, I get more unsure. A fantasy series of this
scale needs to find a pretty sizable audience to justify its
budget. So can it find it? I've gotten dinged in the past for
calling Game of Thrones "not mainstream," with fans of the books
(on which the show is based, duh) arguing, correctly, that the
series has sold spectacularly well. But still... It's not like
they're making a Harry Potter series, or even a Camelot series
(no, that'd be Starz), by which I mean one based on stories
whose characters are essentially household names. Plus in Harry
Potter and Arth