Yes, self-important is exactly the right word for it. If people had been aware that they were watching a trashy dark soap opera, then I might have found it less aggravating, but the fact that people presented it as dark gritty realism that's sooo much more deep and important than *insert other fantasy series here* drove me up the wall. My dudes, wish-fulfillment is still wish-fulfillment even if the wish being fulfilled is sex and violence rather than cotton candy and rainbows.