Board 8 > It's been ten years since the first Game of Thrones episode aired (spoilers)

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Anagaram
04/17/21 2:40:46 PM
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Truly, a series that stuck the landing.

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bryans7
04/17/21 2:45:17 PM
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Sadly, the landing was in a ditch.

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Nanis23
04/17/21 2:51:28 PM
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I was always more of a "The journey is more important than the destination" kind of guy when it comes to TV Shows

But GoT changed my mind
I don't want to hear or talk about this ever again

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Leonhart4
04/17/21 3:19:25 PM
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Still haven't watched it or read any of the books

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Mewtwo59
04/17/21 3:24:34 PM
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bryans7 posted...
Sadly, the landing was in a ditch.

Ditch is being generous.

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PrinceKaro
04/17/21 3:35:03 PM
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It stuck the landing about as well as Bran Stark did

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bryans7
04/17/21 3:45:12 PM
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What do you mean?

Who has a better story than Bran?!

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FFDragon
04/17/21 3:51:47 PM
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I've never forgotten about a series faster.

I would like to keep it that way.

lmao if they think they can get me to invest in these prequels

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TomNook
04/17/21 5:47:03 PM
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It's still one of the top rated shows in terms of praise. Despite how much some people didn't like the final season, it wasn't enough to make them hate it as a whole. On IMDb it's ranked as the #6 show, only behind Band of Brothers, Breaking Bad, Chernobyl, The Wire, and Avatar the Last Airbender.

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Nanis23
04/17/21 5:58:35 PM
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TomNook posted...
It's still one of the top rated shows in terms of praise. Despite how much some people didn't like the final season, it wasn't enough to make them hate it as a whole. On IMDb it's ranked as the #6 show, only behind Band of Brothers, Breaking Bad, Chernobyl, The Wire, and Avatar the Last Airbender.
I dunno I wouldn't go around downvoting episodes that I loved just because I hated the last season(s)

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FFDragon
04/17/21 5:59:58 PM
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I would never recommend anyone start the series no matter how good some early eps are, much like LOST.

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kevwaffles
04/17/21 6:01:53 PM
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You can just do what I did and stop watching once they had (mostly) run out of book material.
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LiquidOshawott
04/17/21 6:50:48 PM
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I dunno, I didnt think it was that bad but I also had like, no real expectations after the white walker battle

the choreography and visuals were kinda nice though, apart from that episode where I couldnt see anything

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FFDragon
04/17/21 7:10:34 PM
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Sansa became unredeemable on the show after the battle of the bastards. And she was already on incredibly thin ice.

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Johnbobb
04/17/21 7:18:04 PM
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Game of Thrones is still my favorite show

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LiquidOshawott
04/17/21 7:18:33 PM
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FFDragon posted...
Sansa became unredeemable on the show after the battle of the bastards. And she was already on incredibly thin ice.

A lot of the characters were done pretty dirty, mainly towards the end

Like I think the only one that wasnt was the Hound. Maybe Jaime but that could be a stretch.

Oh Theon too, his arc was fine

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Djungelurban
04/17/21 7:19:19 PM
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Mewtwo59 posted...
Ditch is being generous.
The ditch was on fire.
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KamikazePotato
04/17/21 7:21:16 PM
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LiquidOshawott posted...
A lot of the characters were done pretty dirty, mainly towards the end

Like I think the only one that wasnt was the Hound. Maybe Jaime but that could be a stretch.
Jaime was one of the most butchered characters in the ending. Throws away all his character development out of nowhere to go die in a way that absolutely no viewers wanted.

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htaeD
04/17/21 7:39:18 PM
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I can still watch the first 4 seasons just fine myself.. despite the tears in the seems
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FL81
04/17/21 7:42:56 PM
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LiquidOshawott posted...
A lot of the characters were done pretty dirty, mainly towards the end

Like I think the only one that wasnt was the Hound. Maybe Jaime but that could be a stretch.

Oh Theon too, his arc was fine
None though worse than Stannis

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LiquidOshawott
04/17/21 7:46:11 PM
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KamikazePotato posted...
Jaime was one of the most butchered characters in the ending. Throws away all his character development out of nowhere to go die in a way that absolutely no viewers wanted.

I was thinking more about how he was portrayed in the later seasons/series as a whole moreso than the ending. Like, I thought he was easily the most interesting main character in the last half of the show.

And while I didnt like his ending, I at least understand it and I think they actually did a decent job of showing why he made that choice and made him sympathetic. Which makes his ending better than Jons. Or Daenerys. Or Bran. Or Sansa. Or Arya. Or Tyrion. Or Varys. Or LittleFinger

ok maybe I am way more cynical about this show than I realized.


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LiquidOshawott
04/17/21 7:49:37 PM
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FL81 posted...
None though worse than Stannis

You could honestly say that whole Dorne storyline was such a dumpster fire that those characters were done worse, and LittleFinger/Varys went from masterminds in the books to simpletons in the show, but yeah Stannis jobbed out to make Ramsay the big bad of Season 6

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bryans7
04/17/21 8:17:20 PM
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I don't know why this always sticks with me but being surrounded by the white walkers and Gendry running for help kills me.

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SwiftyDC
04/17/21 8:19:25 PM
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The last episode that I really enjoyed watching was the five or six men, on a mission to capture one white walker.

Everything after that was meh. I was hyped as shit for it but what a letdown.

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PerfectChaosZ
04/17/21 8:38:26 PM
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I used to be such a huge obsessed fan with this show now it just pisses me off
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XIII_rocks
04/17/21 9:05:11 PM
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Ultimately a very good show with some seriously bizarre decisions (such as making the final two seasons shorter) towards the end

Shame it limped over the line but I have no regrets being invested in it and still think it is well worth a recommend.
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NFUN
04/17/21 9:34:33 PM
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bryans7 posted...
Sadly, the landing was in a ditch.

https://twitter.com/badiucao/status/1383567873650483207
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andylt
04/17/21 10:10:37 PM
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I was falling off the show long before the end, but my god that final season managed to ruin every character left that I liked. Terrible ends for all of my favs and pretty much everybody left alive is just an unlikable hypocritical asshole by the end. And of course nothing about the plot made sense, but that had been true since s5 or so.

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BlAcK TuRtLe
04/19/21 1:09:40 AM
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Sometimes I forget just how good the first 4 seasons were. It's crazy how we've gotten to the point where I don't even care if the last 2 (or more) books ever come out

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PerfectChaosZ
04/19/21 1:45:30 AM
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It was just a disaster; the good characters got a crappy end, the bad characters got a crappy end, they even managed to ruin the character of the dragon who up till then had two intrinsic character traits; be loyal to Dany and breath fire and then his final act is to do neither.
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Earthshaker
04/19/21 1:56:21 AM
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bryans7 posted...
What do you mean?

Who has a better story than Bran?!

Hot Pie.

His baking techniques were appreciated in the Frey court, and he didn't wind up in an area that was absolutely buggered by undead or bad plot.

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Seginustemple
04/19/21 2:22:35 AM
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I can't believe I used to go to watch parties for this, like twenty people in a room hype for this shit. It's hard to envision that happening for a television show again
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red13n
04/19/21 2:35:54 AM
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Leonhart4 posted...
Still haven't watched it or read any of the books

Don't bother with the books. The show stays good for longer than the books do. Minus one area, but the books and show part of that are both bad in different ways.

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PerfectChaosZ
04/19/21 3:25:53 AM
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Seginustemple posted...
I can't believe I used to go to watch parties for this, like twenty people in a room hype for this shit. It's hard to envision that happening for a television show again

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xp1337
04/19/21 4:43:52 AM
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FFDragon posted...
I've never forgotten about a series faster.
faster than dany forgot about the iron fleet?

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MajinZidane
04/19/21 7:53:20 AM
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I still cant believe how badly this series ended.

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ChainLTTP
04/19/21 8:39:51 AM
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At least the final season was so incredibly bad that it made for a fun time shitting on it here the night of.

But yeah after rewatching the series, I realize that GoT was only truly great for the first two seasons.
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Anagaram
04/19/21 12:27:33 PM
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xp1337 posted...
faster than dany forgot about the iron fleet?
Oh you

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BlAcK TuRtLe
04/20/21 1:10:39 AM
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ChainLTTP posted...
At least the final season was so incredibly bad that it made for a fun time shitting on it here the night of.

But yeah after rewatching the series, I realize that GoT was only truly great for the first two seasons.
Season 3 and 4 were also excellent, though that might just be because A Storm of Swords is quite possibly the best book I have ever read (noting that I read all 5 books after watching season 1)

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PerfectChaosZ
04/20/21 7:46:23 AM
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I feel like it got worse and worse so slowly that it was hard to notice. There were definitely more bad parts as it went on. Most of it was still okay compared to most TV. I wish the final season had at least been on a season 4-5 level. God it could have at least been the same amount of episodes as every other season Im sure it wouldnt have been perfect but it would have helped substantially.
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RikkuAlmighty
04/20/21 7:54:34 AM
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God.

Fuck this show. Fuck Weiss and Benioff. It's fine if they at least tried with the last couple seasons but it didn't land right (see: Star Wars Ep. 8). But Season 6 and especially 7 are just so aggressively and offensively lazy that it pisses me right off.

Anyone who recommends the show to new viewers knowing how season 7 panned out is straight up an asshole.

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andylt
04/20/21 8:10:18 AM
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It was clear very early on that D&D weren't very good when going off book, and naturally that just got worse as things went on. I think Season 6 fooled a lot of people into thinking it was back on track at the time, but really it just had some great climactic book moments from Winds we haven't seen yet, the rest was still awful.

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Aecioo
04/20/21 8:15:44 AM
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RikkuAlmighty posted...
Anyone who recommends the show to new viewers knowing how season 8 panned out is straight up an asshole.

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RikkuAlmighty
04/20/21 8:49:44 AM
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wait lmao

i legitimately forgot got was 8 seasons and not 7

yes, fuck season 8

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PerfectChaosZ
04/20/21 10:58:40 AM
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Theres not even a satisfying/logical end point where you can go, watch it but stop here to a new fan like you can say for other horrible finals shows like Dexter. Its one continuous thing that doesnt end till the finale poisons it all the way down. I got so obsessed into GoT when I watched it, knew all the houses, got the first book hardcover, knew expanded stuff, spent hours reading speculation.. it was so good! But it salted the earth and I never wanna hear about Game of Thrones again. No happy emotions at all thinking about it now.
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xp1337
04/20/21 11:05:48 AM
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PerfectChaosZ posted...
Theres not even a satisfying/logical end point where you can go, watch it but stop here to a new fan like you can say for other horrible finals shows like Dexter.
S2E9 tell them it's over and when those guys are dragging Stannis away it's to bring him to the victory party and turn it off immediately there mid-episode.

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kevwaffles
04/20/21 11:31:21 AM
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Have them stop right before Joffrey orders Ned's execution and tell them not to worry he's fine.
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SwiftyDC
04/20/21 11:39:54 AM
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I hope one day they make a movie series and do it right.


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LiquidOshawott
04/20/21 2:45:37 PM
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Honestly the real answer to stop is season 4

Tyrion kills Tywin, Runs Away with Varys to start their own kingdom with blackjack and hookers, Stannis becomes king of the wildlings after beating Mance. Dany stays in Meereen forever. Leave Westeros a ambiguous mystery.

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ZeroSignal620
04/20/21 3:15:31 PM
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FFDragon posted...
I've never forgotten about a series faster.

Pretty much this. The last great episode IMO was A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, and I mentally let the series end there.

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