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It's been 7 months since Game of Thrones ended, what do you think now?
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Baby Yoda is awesome. What was this topic about again?
I saw the box set the other day and paused a moment to realize this would have made me happy a couple years ago.
The show is over. I liked it but it's over now and the drama makes me not want to revisit it.
I saw the box set the other day and paused a moment to realize this would have made me happy a couple years ago.
The show is over. I liked it but it's over now and the drama makes me not want to revisit it.
I just realized, "people were mad they didn't get the happy ending they wanted" is going to be to GoT what
Was to Lost. A nonsensical refusal to acknowledge the valid criticisms of the ending of the show that will annoy me whenever it's mindlessly parroted for years to come.
"you just didn't understand the ending, they weren't dead the whole time"
Was to Lost. A nonsensical refusal to acknowledge the valid criticisms of the ending of the show that will annoy me whenever it's mindlessly parroted for years to come.
I made a thread a few months ago here asking if I should finish watching it. (Made it to season 2)
Update on that thread....I never went back to watch it, I don't think I ever will.
Update on that thread....I never went back to watch it, I don't think I ever will.
Poll misses an "it was ok" option. It was way too abrupt and rushed but it had some great episodes as well. The potential of the show was squandered but I don't think it was a total trash fire. But fan outrage about these things never really cools down. So the conversation about the show is a dead horse.
Really ? I think you're too kind. Season 5 is where it all goes to shit. Arya in Braavos, Jaime and Bronn at Dorne, Stannis character further detroyed, etcetera...
A great show ended with Tywin's death, and managed to reach shittiest lows until the end. Most impressive.
You should really watch the first 4 seasons and pretend it got cancelled because of the nudity or something.
I could do that, but I recently had a friend spoil a lot of what happens for me lol
I re-read the series after it ended and loved it more than ever, got into some of the prequel/expanded universe stuff after I finished more excited for WoW than ever.
Last few seasons of the show were definitely not up to par, but the fan bases reaction to the show was way more embarrassing. I don't bother taking part in the conversation anymore, I'm sure I'll rewatch the show some day.
Last few seasons of the show were definitely not up to par, but the fan bases reaction to the show was way more embarrassing. I don't bother taking part in the conversation anymore, I'm sure I'll rewatch the show some day.
I haven't even watched the last episode even though I watched every episode since like season 2 the day they were released.
The ending wasn't fine and the consensus of the internet reflects that
I don't particularly hate the ending (like, it doesn't actively make me mad) but I also think the show had been going downhill since like season 4 or so, so by the end I just wasn't invested enough anymore to care that much about it.
The ending was awful but I still go back to watch clips from the early seasons to remind myself of how good the show used to be.
It saved me the money of buying the whole series on disc, because I'm never going to watch it again. Probably the only good thing about it.
Still excited for Winds of Winter though :(
The ending made me never want to watch the show again, despite the quality of the early seasons. Knowing how it ended just sours any desire to revisit the highs.
Used to go back and watch favorite and forgotten scenes during downtime between seasons. Thinking on it now I haven't done that at all since the series concluded, with no real desire to. Maybe it'll return in time. Years of investment and interest turning into a shrug is a damn shame for a production that deserved better.
I asked my sister what she thought of the end of Game of Thrones. She doesn't read fantasy novels, she started the series kind of late, and is not the type of person to discuss these things on an internet forum. Her response? "It was shite."
Anyone who says the negative reaction to season 8 was just angry nerds or just an internet thing is the one living in a bubble. You have to really perform some Olympic level mental gymnastics to convince yourself that that was a good ending.
Anyone who says the negative reaction to season 8 was just angry nerds or just an internet thing is the one living in a bubble. You have to really perform some Olympic level mental gymnastics to convince yourself that that was a good ending.
It sucked then, sucks now, and will suck forever.
Still can't believe how it finished...even though the show has become an afterthought to me now.
Still can't believe how it finished...even though the show has become an afterthought to me now.
I like your Threads OT.
Well, it's in the same league of LOST. Horrible horrible horrible show. SHAME!
Well, it's in the same league of LOST. Horrible horrible horrible show. SHAME!
It was fine then, its fine now.
The shitshow the internet made of it is not my speed though. I've read far too many books and watched far to much serialized TV shows to engage in that level of fuckery just because of an ending I wasn't completely fond of. It's not the end of the world. Not even close. The over the top hatred, reactions and venom towards the writers remains proof that we are in the absolute worst timeline.
I worry about the trending of online discourse surrounding serialized TV though. Its been getting pretty bad since LOST. You used to be able to dislike a shows ending (BSG had a lot of people that disliked it) but you could be sure people would move on eventually. But LOST and now GoT seems to have this different feel where people really want to linger and harp on their hatred of it long term for some reason. Im hoping that proves wrong in the next year, but it doesn't look good.
I try to imagine The Sopranos infamous 'cut to black'; or the entire final season of Babylon 5 (sans sleeping in light) in this fucking era and I just laugh really. It would be a shitshow.
The shitshow the internet made of it is not my speed though. I've read far too many books and watched far to much serialized TV shows to engage in that level of fuckery just because of an ending I wasn't completely fond of. It's not the end of the world. Not even close. The over the top hatred, reactions and venom towards the writers remains proof that we are in the absolute worst timeline.
I worry about the trending of online discourse surrounding serialized TV though. Its been getting pretty bad since LOST. You used to be able to dislike a shows ending (BSG had a lot of people that disliked it) but you could be sure people would move on eventually. But LOST and now GoT seems to have this different feel where people really want to linger and harp on their hatred of it long term for some reason. Im hoping that proves wrong in the next year, but it doesn't look good.
I try to imagine The Sopranos infamous 'cut to black'; or the entire final season of Babylon 5 (sans sleeping in light) in this fucking era and I just laugh really. It would be a shitshow.
I'm not one of the people who got very vocal and angry about the last season, but it was bad and rushed and removed all possibility that I will rewatch the show. I enjoyed most of the series as it aired and that's enough for me.
ppl say worst star war is episode 8
worst got season is 8
worst mcu film is thor dark world and it is 8th movie
makes u think
worst got season is 8
worst mcu film is thor dark world and it is 8th movie
makes u think
I hated it then, and I hate it now. S05 and 06 were a mess with more good than bad. 6/10
S07 can already fuck off and I stopped expecting anything due to that one. 4/10
S08 has maybe 10 good minutes in its 6-hour runtime. 3/10
Book 6 - 202X, Book 7, Fire and Blood 2 (stop adapting half-finished things HBO!), more D&E, an ending to the TT game - never.
We did not win, nobody won.
S07 can already fuck off and I stopped expecting anything due to that one. 4/10
S08 has maybe 10 good minutes in its 6-hour runtime. 3/10
Book 6 - 202X, Book 7, Fire and Blood 2 (stop adapting half-finished things HBO!), more D&E, an ending to the TT game - never.
We did not win, nobody won.
i liked the show but don't care about it anymore. it's done. not really interested in the new shows they are making.
I liked the end, it gave me many hours of entertainent over the years, but I don't think about it anymore.
It killed almost any interest I ever had in the GOT universe. Not even the prequel trilogy did that to Star Wars for me. One day I might read the books. Maybe.
I thought the season was ok, but the ending was terrible. I'm not one of this people that laments how a bad ending can retroactively ruin a long form series, but in this instance, the ending of GoT killed my interest in rewatching the series. Well, season 1 is pretty fantastic, so maybe I'll rewatch that, but it feels so pointless now.
I would have been fine with the ending if it actually had room to grow and breathe. Unfortunately, it was clearly rushed, and character development felt unearned and hollow.
I would have been fine with the ending if it actually had room to grow and breathe. Unfortunately, it was clearly rushed, and character development felt unearned and hollow.
Purists will tell you everything past season 4 was bad, but I think you'll be totally okay if you watch until s08e02. Just pretend that the White Walkers killed everyone. It's a weird ending, granted, but way less weird than the one they filmed.
It really made me appreciate the Mass Effect fans that state that ME3 ruined the entire series for them. I never understood that feeling, but now I know what it feels like.