With the rise of streaming services and on-demand viewing, fantasy television is now more popular than ever. It seems like every month, sometimes even every day, there's a new fantasy TV series cropping up somewhere on the internet, usually serving as an exclusive to one particular platform or another. While many of these shows are wonderful, they owe a lot to their predecessors, many of which completely changed the landscape of fantasy television.
Indeed, over the last several decades, many fantasy TV shows have morphed and shaped the genre into what it is today, using a variety of techniques to tell their unique stories and provide a form of escapism from the monotony of everyday life. While enjoying fantasy is definitely more popular than it was in the past, it owes its success to the

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