I believe the books ends the same way s5 ends. But the two bolded parts don't happen
That was a Tv show brain child. As was ... dorne (or the way it was portrayed)
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That was a Tv show brain child. As was ... dorne (or the way it was portrayed)
I laughed at that. Though I thought that was a fantastic episode (last second save aside) and the follow up of not searching for them
It's annoying because that episode is definitely amazing, but Jaime and Bronn being captured would have still made sense because they end up where Dany goes eventually anyway. Having them magically get away only to go to Winterfell in the long run just screams of writers who really couldn't be arsed trying to tie their story together. Plus, with Jaime captured it would give Cersei the chance to answer the big question on what she values more; her true love or power.
It’s crazy how tarnished the GoT legacy is now. Probably the biggest series ever at the time, and yet most people prefer to forget it.
Yes, pretty much. Like every immature adult still does. It's in our blood to laugh at dick jokes, no matter the delivery.
the babes as well though
nathalie emmanuel
nathalie emmanuel
and the buxom red headed whore
It was like if on the last episodes of The Sopranos we found out Tony was an undercover cop all the time and wasn't even Italian
It's weird, I hated the ending, but still loved the overall series, and don't think "the end was shit so it was all shit". I'd still watch it all again, even the last season.
Season 8 is still better than any of the netflix bollocks which gets rave reviews. They're all cookie cutter BS which make feck all sense and cater to one audience, morons.
TBF, that can be true whilst also still being shit based on the logic of the show and general tv viewing.
Grow up
Agreed. Great post Elvis!
This is true in many ways, nothing has come close since in terms of genre TV. The thing is that as good as seasons 1-4 were they could and should have been even better and all the issues that would drag the quality down in the later seasons were already there.
Decided to do a rewatch and something big sticks out to me:
The early seasons were full of side characters who were played by actors who commanded your attention with great screen presence
Yoren
Lord commander Mormont
Benjen Stark
Craster
Syrio Forel
Qhorin Halfhand
Maester Luwin
The blackfish
Great jon Umber
Mance Rayder
And then the bigger ones like Tywin, King Robert, Barristan Selmy, Drogo
Almost Every single one of these characters were killed off by season 5 and I think it really hurt the series losing so many of them
The early seasons were full of side characters who were played by actors who commanded your attention with great screen presence
Yoren
Lord commander Mormont
Benjen Stark
Craster
Syrio Forel
Qhorin Halfhand
Maester Luwin
The blackfish
Great jon Umber
Mance Rayder
And then the bigger ones like Tywin, King Robert, Barristan Selmy, Drogo
Almost Every single one of these characters were killed off by season 5 and I think it really hurt the series losing so many of them
And replaced them with random cameos of celebrities.
Ed Sheeran's cameo epitomised how far the show had veered from where it started.
Real life joke included ("it's a new one"). The single most pathetic moment among the shitshow that the series became.
And his bigass forehead taking up 90% of the screen
One cameo that might not be obvious to a lot of people outside of Denmark was Frank Hvam as the slightly grumpy administrator type person, when Sam checks into the citadel to become a maester. He is a Danish comedian, actor and producer most well-known for starring in the comedy series "Clown", which is heavily inspired by Curb your Enthusiasm. Apparently the GOT producers were fans of the show, so offered to give him a minor role. The kicker, however, was that his accent is so heavy that they couldn't include his own lines it in the episode - it had to be dubbed. I was so taken aback when I saw a B-tier Danish celebrity suddenly show up in Games of Thrones with someone else delivering his lines
Amatuer hour.This is the scene: Link.
Started to rewatch this. The first season really is top quality tv.
Not to mention Oberyn who stole every single scene he was in during the fourth season.
I agree that the show went down hill from season 6. Although season 6 also had arguably the best finale and episode of the entire series. Think it was to do with no book material to use and the writers getting bored, but more likely just not be able to work without source content and dialogue.
One thing I don’t agree with is the hate for Danaery’s going mad/bad. I think that was always the plan and the seeds were planted from very early on that sooner or later her angry side would take over
One thing I don’t agree with is the hate for Danaery’s going mad/bad. I think that was always the plan and the seeds were planted from very early on that sooner or later her angry side would take over
As with lots of the end content, the issue comes from the speed she turns, eroding seasons of character development and pacing.
I doubt many would have complained if the transformation happened over a number of seasons.
Curious what seeds you are talking about? In early seasons she was brutal against people that wronged her, such as her brother, Mirri Maz Duur, the warlocks and whatever. But that also applies to other characters. Jon Snow hangs a child as payback, for instance.
What are the seeds that indicated she would slaughter thousands of innocents?
People talk about last two seasons being terrible, but my god, the 4th season was a bore. Basically they stretched out the Tyrion trial over a whole season. Perhaps non book readers feel differently, but for me it was the worst season, despite the writing getting worse in the last few seasons.
Sand snake season was pretty bad from memory.
Less actions and more personality traits. Which was something the early seasons did well at showing. Can’t remember too many specific moments at the top of my head as not watched for so long.
But I remember before, she turned, discussing her character with a friend. I contrasted her to Jon. Jon was instinctively good, he didn’t need to think “what would a good person do” or be advised against doing bad. Danaery’s always came across as someone who was “trying to be good” and often needed counsel against “burning everything down”. In tense situations or when things got difficult she often appeared to be fighting her real nature.
Now she’s obviously not evil in a cunning or sadistic way. But when her obsession is to rule the 7 kingdom and she has dragons and an army then you could see that mass slaughter was a possibility.
Yeah. Remembered better than it was because of that face smashing episode.
To each his own. I think it's widely regarded as the best season. Personally I have it as the best or second best behind three.
It started great and gradually it became worse and worse slowly until the last season when the decline was rapid and watched it just cause I was like - I'll watch it till the end cause I watch the whole thing but its a disaster.
I was pretty happy that Bran ends up being king, if only he had a bit of personality left.
Pretty much. The first 3-4 seasons are some of the best TV produced in my opinion, but by season 7-8 I wouldn’t even call it good anymore. The character development, storytelling and acting all went south. No CGI budget makes up for that. It was just living on the name.
It became way worse when the show split from the books, Stannis' death after the battle of Winterfell, although Battle of the bastards was good, granted.
But, hey, it's alright because the later seasons had him making knob jokes.
It's crazy that people who enjoyed those types of scenes were okay with what the sow became.
Whaaaa?
I dont know many people that feel this way.
That was a great season, and had so many really good episodes. ALso the trial... he was basically taken prisoner in ep2, so from ep3 to ep 6 (ep 6 he has his trial and then calls for trial by combat). Then 8 is the combat episode.
Ill be surprised if people here thought it was the worst season (most im sure would have it near the top)
Is season 4 where he gives the speech about being guilty?
If so then I take back what I said. It’s better than I gave it credit for. But I think some of the negativity might be because it’s where they started running out of book materiel. So you’ll have really great scenes and dialogue one moment followed by signs of we were going to be in for in future seasons.
This was the arguably the moment Game of Thrones died. How that line ended up in the show is beyond me.