A lot of stuff in the Daenerys storyline doesn't look great, especially in the pilot. City outdoor scenes didn't look great either.
Television Best season of Game Of Thrones?
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A lot of stuff in the Daenerys storyline doesn't look great, especially in the pilot. City outdoor scenes didn't look great either.
My thoughts also. It's basically when they deviated from the books and the storylines/characters became a bit daft.
Season 6 had some great episodes. S5 probably had one of the best episodes of the whole series
Yeah, it lost its grittiness and unpredictability I thought. It's hard to pick a favourite from the first 4, they were all excellent.
Same for me.
The oberyn Vs mountain, whatever season that was... Probably my favourite.
It's all a blur to me but that scene was my biggest WTF moment and is the thing I remember the most about the show.
It's all a blur to me but that scene was my biggest WTF moment and is the thing I remember the most about the show.
Season 4.
That season had insane moments and scenes.
I'd probably have to go with season 4, but seasons 1-3 are all brilliant. I think seasons 5 & 6 had some great episodes and are underrated, just because of the amazing quality of the previous seasons.
I watch random episodes from time to time. I think if you were to rank your favourite episodes from any TV series ever, the majority would have a few GOT in their top 5.
Some of the episodes are actual hair raising, it was the pinnacle of TV and I don't think itl be matched. Its such a shame they didn't just finish it out over 10 seasons of 10 episodes.
Edit Watching the winds of winter now.
Some of the episodes are actual hair raising, it was the pinnacle of TV and I don't think itl be matched. Its such a shame they didn't just finish it out over 10 seasons of 10 episodes.
Edit Watching the winds of winter now.
Just rewatched the episode of the fight between Oberyn and The Mountain, which I originally watched before reading the books, and I don't think I've ever been more shocked by a TV plot point than when Oberyn has his skull smashed in. I hated the outcome as in I was so invested in Oberyn winning that shit, and it was so fecking graphic too. Great TV, to be fair.
I’ve heard people argue the opposite which is fair enough, but one of the changes I really liked from the book to the show was how they altered Oberyn becoming Tyrion’s champion. In the books he publicly demands a trial by combat knowing Oberyn will be his champion, whereas I enjoyed in the show he makes the demand as a Hail Mary, we see him losing hope as the visitors to the cell go one by one, resulting in him almost resigning himself to his fate. And then it culminates in that fantastic final scene with Tyrion and Oberyn.
Pedro Pascal was fecking brilliant
1 through 4 was brilliant throughout. 5 and 6 had plenty of great stuff, but started to falter. 7 became a bit dumb and season 8 was a fecking shambles.
7 is redeemed by this scene alone
7 is redeemed by this scene alone
Finishing season 5 in my rewatch. The cracks are starting to appear more conspicuously than I remembered. There still are some very interesting elements of world building, in my view, like the faceless god stuff, the ever-present threat of the army of the dead, the struggles of Danaerys to be the ruler she wants to be, or the religious fanatics taking over King's Landing, but clumsiness is starting to affect the finer details in those and several other subplots (not only the Dorne parts, which are horrendous indeed, but also the Sansa-Littlefinger-Boltons stuff for example), and that, together with the knowledge we have now that most of all that will have little to no pay-off, if not downright mockery from the people running it, is making me seriously wonder why I bothered in the first place. I will definitely skip seasons 7 and 8 at least.
I think 5 is when they stopped using source material, or ran out of source material. So the dialogue took a noticeable downturn.
Season 6 had arguably the best finale, with best opening 20 minutes of any TV show. So that might make people remember it much more favourably than then the season in its entirety deserves.
But I’ll say
1, 4, 6, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8.
6 had the best finale.
1-4 great dialogue
Also Danaery’s becoming a nutter was sewn in very early on so I’m not someone who objects to that, but I think the series needed another full season at least. 7 & 8 were just too rushed.
I've been reading the megathread of the series as I was rewatching it, and was going to bump it (much more fun the the series itself) but got scared by the old thread bump warning, so I'm bumping this one instead. Two things that I found odd from that thread were the bites Eboue got for his non-stop rather unambitious wumming, and some posters who genuinely seemed to like the steaming pile of shite the series had become by sesons 6-7.
As for my rewatch, I was going to stop at season 6, which I already thought was far, far worse than I remembered, but I thought, feck it let's go all the way, look at how much all these caftards were having the first time around... and wow, it truly got awful, the scripts were just one dumb plot point after another, an absolute trope fest and an embarrassment compared to anything bar the dumbest Michael Bay blockbuster. And the saddest part is it was obvious nobody actually making the show gave a single feck anymore. D&D couldn't look more fecking bored in the post-episode explanations if they tried, and the cast felt disinterested too at best, which is understandable considering they witnessed the decline first hand and were being given utter shite to work with.
Unfortunately the books are never going to be finished, at least by Martin himself, so it's quite likely this is the only conclusion we'll get. Such a waste of tens of hours of tv and thousands of pages. Ah well, time to move on for good.
As for my rewatch, I was going to stop at season 6, which I already thought was far, far worse than I remembered, but I thought, feck it let's go all the way, look at how much all these caftards were having the first time around... and wow, it truly got awful, the scripts were just one dumb plot point after another, an absolute trope fest and an embarrassment compared to anything bar the dumbest Michael Bay blockbuster. And the saddest part is it was obvious nobody actually making the show gave a single feck anymore. D&D couldn't look more fecking bored in the post-episode explanations if they tried, and the cast felt disinterested too at best, which is understandable considering they witnessed the decline first hand and were being given utter shite to work with.
Unfortunately the books are never going to be finished, at least by Martin himself, so it's quite likely this is the only conclusion we'll get. Such a waste of tens of hours of tv and thousands of pages. Ah well, time to move on for good.
I still think somebody should animate a version of s6 and s7 that way you dont have to worry about aging actors. Just make the animation look close to them. Im sure you could even get some youtubers to write a better story as they would be more dedicated for it to make sense.
I wrote my previous post without having finished season 8, I still had to rewatch the finale, and now that I have I just don't even know what to say that wasn't said back then in the show thread... it was just dismayingly bad. I don't know if it's the "worst finale ever", there are so many things out there I haven't watched, but of all the mainstream series I've watched and in relative terms to the same series at its best it is certainly one of the very worst. The series had been ranging from mediocre to embarrassingly bad for a good 3 seasons at the very least by then, but nothing had prepared me for that council scene. I don't think we'll ever see anything as mind-numbingly stupid as that to end a show that had been as good as this one. The Edmure sketch in particular was just unthinkable, and plain insulting to the show itself, the source material and the viewers. And now yes, time to truly move on from this shitshow and never look back.
The series thread was great though, even after that abysmal finale there were people in there calling people who hated it snobs
The series thread was great though, even after that abysmal finale there were people in there calling people who hated it snobs
Just watched up to the beginning of season 6 for the first time. I think I'll likely finish season 7 but I have no interest in ever watching season 8.
It really is an incredible show - even knowing its reputation and a number the storylines and twists/shocks, it really blew me away. I think "Hardhome" was my favourite episode, but I felt really disappointed by the "Battle of the Bastards." I've heard from multiple people that it was an amazing episode, but I was underwhelmed. The visuals were amazing (including the calvary charge and John being crushed by his own army) but the battle itself was cliché, it relied on people acting irrationally to produce drama and the writing/dialogue was pretty poor (Sansa saying something like "Don't do what he wants you to do" is maybe the dumbest line in the whole show). That being said, the season 6 finale was fantastic.
It really is an incredible show - even knowing its reputation and a number the storylines and twists/shocks, it really blew me away. I think "Hardhome" was my favourite episode, but I felt really disappointed by the "Battle of the Bastards." I've heard from multiple people that it was an amazing episode, but I was underwhelmed. The visuals were amazing (including the calvary charge and John being crushed by his own army) but the battle itself was cliché, it relied on people acting irrationally to produce drama and the writing/dialogue was pretty poor (Sansa saying something like "Don't do what he wants you to do" is maybe the dumbest line in the whole show). That being said, the season 6 finale was fantastic.
If I had to choose the single most pathetic moment in the show (not an easy task admittedly, there were so, so many of them in its second half) it would definitely be the Ed Sheeran cameo. It was truly insulting they decided to have a mega pop star break the fourth wall, go meta or however you wanna call it ("it's a new one"), I simply can't get over how fecking awful that was
And they zoomed in on his big massive head tooIf I had to choose the single most pathetic moment in the show (not an easy task admittedly, there were so, so many of them in its second half) it would definitely be the Ed Sheeran cameo. It was truly insulting they decided to have a mega pop star break the fourth wall, go meta or however you wanna call it ("it's a new one"), I simply can't get over how fecking awful that was
Not really sure if this is the correct thread but a full re run is on sky Atlantic
There's a similar smaller moment that pretty much only Danes will get, when Danish comedian/actor Frank Hvam suddenly appeared as a librarian of sorts in Old Town. First of all, you are immediately taken out of the scene, because this B-list local celebrity is suddenly in Game of Thrones. Then you realize that they aren't even using his original lines, because his accent was too heavy. Apparently the GoT producers put him in, because they liked a comedy show he had produced and starred in. It was surreal.If I had to choose the single most pathetic moment in the show (not an easy task admittedly, there were so, so many of them in its second half) it would definitely be the Ed Sheeran cameo. It was truly insulting they decided to have a mega pop star break the fourth wall, go meta or however you wanna call it ("it's a new one"), I simply can't get over how fecking awful that was
I see some saying season 5 was better than 7 and 8. But really? Season 5 was so bad. I'll agree they didn't finish strong but worse than season 5? Nah.
Season 5 had hardhome though.
But yeah sons of harpy shit, high sparrow beginnings and dorne was baaad
Rerun is currently on in Germany and exactly those plot points are happening as I type. So so bad. Also Aria's assassin arc does nothing for me
Season 1-4 are all amazing. 5, 6 and 7 had their moments.
8 I struggle to name a single good thing. I guess Ser friendzone dying was sort of sad.
8 I struggle to name a single good thing. I guess Ser friendzone dying was sort of sad.
I didn't really think it was truly bad overall until mid season 8 (The Longest Night or whatever the war episode was called).
It peaked in season 4 though, where like half the episodes are proper 10/10 stuff. Perhaps the best ever season of any show.
It peaked in season 4 though, where like half the episodes are proper 10/10 stuff. Perhaps the best ever season of any show.
Really? I really enjoyed Aria’s story, it redeemed season 5 which would have been agony without it
First six seasons are all good. Seasons 1 and 4 remain my favourite. Then take your pick between 2, 3, 5 and 6. All good for different reasons. 6 was starting to show real deviation from what made it great, but had some superb episodes. 7 was mediocre at best, 8 was just utter gash.
I have been catching bits and pieces of the re run on sky Atlantic and some of it is just so so good.
I know it tailed away, but i don't think we will have another show like it again.
I know it tailed away, but i don't think we will have another show like it again.
Season 1 has the best scripting and is the world builder season, but like many have said the fourth season takes it.
Season 1 was basically perfect television.
How the feck can season 6 be the best when Cersei blew up the Vatican with the Pope, the queen and hundreds of lords inside and everyone just pretended like it didn't happen
Imagine if in season 1 when Joffrey took Neds head the north just did nothing...
Imagine if in season 1 when Joffrey took Neds head the north just did nothing...
It's ironic that the less tits and shagging they showed the worse the show became
People blaming the show runners are a bit daft though. They signed up to adapt a book series with the promise that the remaining books would be finished and the fat fecker wasn't arsed of simply didn't know how to finish his own story
People blaming the show runners are a bit daft though. They signed up to adapt a book series with the promise that the remaining books would be finished and the fat fecker wasn't arsed of simply didn't know how to finish his own story
Undead ice zombies, Dire Wolves, regicide and political scheming, The queen shagging her own brother and attempted kid murder all in the pilot episode!
I've never been so pulled in and engrossed in any piece of media like early thrones
Personally I think the final season truly encapsulated everything about the show as a whole.
It was brilliant.
Then eventually turned on it's head with the total waste of the White Walkers and the Night King.
The payoff should have been huge.
So much build up for such an uninspiring and rushed showdown.
Where have I heard this before?