Like the first season was intriguing but I really thought it was bland after that? Am I alone in this? I found myself laughing at the cgi as well. It wasn’t the worst show in the world but I was shocked to find the praise it was constantly getting after finally checking it out.
Howver, I will say Emilia Clarke is a gem.
The later seasons were absolute trash when dumb and dumber ran out of source material to copy off of, but other than that it was really good.
It was ok, personally im not a fan of soft magic systems.
I enjoyed most of it but wow. Did it die out fast. One day it was everywhere, new shows being planned and then… poof! Feel bad for the actors. They were on top of the world, then nothing. That kind of thing can really wreck your career.
GoT peaked around season 4. Everything after that was good, until Season 8 which was just . . . gross.
It’s not that they ran out so much, as they just wanted it to end. I never did get around to watching that last season though. Heard it was terribad
I thought overall it was a great show. The ending was kind of basic and unimaginative though. I was expecting some grand shocking-yet-satisfying finale, but it would up being boring.
Aside from that, the show was awesome.
It’s clear the TV show producers were entirely dependent on GRRM’s books, even if they went off the rails a bit, and when they reached the end of his material at the time, they had nothing of their own that was any good. So they sort of just mailed it in at the end.
I tried reading the books, got 300 pages into the first one and was so bored.
Someone told me it gets good soon just keep reading… why should I have to read 300 pages of boring for it to get good?
I thought the whole thing and the books were bland and even more wordy version of the LOTR trilogy. Some of the most repetitive nausea inducing writing I’ve ever had the misfortune of coming across.
I liked it but I’ll prob never watch it again. What made it stand out was the scale and how shocking it was.
Yea, he’s super wordy for no reason. The books could have been half as long imo.
Season 1-4 were fantastic. 5 was meh. 6 was pretty good. 7 was bad. 8 was horrendous.
It’s no longer rewatchable with how season 8 completely screwed the ending.
I say this as someone with a Ph.D…those books are just torture to read. I’ve read 900+ page academic monographs with more elegant prose.
I thought it was pretty damn good when they had GRRM actual books and not foot notes to work with.
I thought the CGI was really well done. The episode where Dani roasted Jaime’s entire army was amazing.
The praise you’re reading is from seasons 1 through 6. Maybe a few from 7. None from 8.
Yes she is. I thought she was one of the best cast characters.
Yup. I got the feeling through most it that they were just trying to be edgy/gross people out.
I would not say it was terrible, but grossly overrated. What they did with Daenerys was probably the dumbest thing I have ever seen though. 8 seasons of buildup for that lol. The ending was so bad.
Must have been something for the actors/directors though. They went from being all over the news as breaking bad the LOTR version to going down to nothing due to how badly it ended. I think now its seen as a bit of a joke series to be honest. Went from 100 to zero very fast.
You’re one of the first people I’ve seen to agree with me on that lol
That’s most movies with any sort of fantasy.
I liked GoT right up until SPOILERS INCJon Snow got rezzed END SPOILERS
It just ruined the flow of the show. And funny enough that’s about when it all went into trash with smaller seasons and crazier stuff happening without explanation. The ending solidified it as the worst show ending for me.
To me, that’s the wildest thing about GoT.
It basically went from one of, if not the most talked about shows in the world to almost universally reviled overnight (well, over the course of the last few episodes).
Even shows with bad later seasons tend to have people looking fondly to the earlier ones. Scrubs and Simpsons are two examples of these.
But they cooked the ending of GoT so badly that it retroactively ruined the rest of the series. That’s pretty impressive. Not even How I Met Your Mother managed that.
Yeah, the final scene in the books (as of now, though I’m better GRRM doesn’t finish it before he dies and Sanderson ends up picking up his slack) is where Jon Snow gets stabbed.
Basically everything after that isn’t source material, and that’s when it starts going downhill.
For me, Seasons 1-6 were fantastic, 7 & 8 were ill-conceived, rushed, poor character consistency, illogical travel times between places, and major plotholes without spoiling anything, such as the guy who gets a thousand ships made from non-existent wood and non-existent troops manning each ship.
Then there’s the visible Starbucks cup and the visible Water Bottle in Season 8, and you can tell there’s no passion anymore. Very sad how one of the greatest shows ever went down the toilet bowl so quickly.
It was great until season 6. 7 and 8 take a big dive (though there’s still some good stuff in season 7). The CGI improves over time because they started on a low budget as a niche show, and then when it became huge they upgraded it…but really its a character show and if you don’t like the interpersonal drama its probably not for you. Do yourself a favor and skip the last two seasons (or even just season 8, which is absolutely awful and destroyed the entire IP along with D&D careers it was so bad). If you stopped at the Battle of the Bastards you probably got everything you needed out of GoT.