Bad CGI and dogkiller friendly.
Looks as empty as a grind quest. No way this is the next GoT
shareGame of Thrones collapsed, it really not a great show in retrospect.
shareIt never was. Never understood the hype storm around it. I mean it was a good show. But the best thing ever? It was a slow plodding bore most of the time. The fact that there's no satisfying payoff for enduring it now just cements its mediocrity. Unlike a show like Dexter where you can just ignore the later seasons, GoT like Lost kind of depends on them to be good or not.
shareSame here; I can only guess the audience loved the shock of its sex and violence. Very Shakespearean, hah.
I gave up on it after 3 seasons myself. Got bored of the plot going nowhere and getting invested in characters only for them to keep abruptly and randomly dying off.
I actually hope this turns out better than GoT. IMO it should not be too difficult. But I'm reserving judgement. :)
I stopped watching when Tyrion killed his pops on the crapper. That wrapped up the last story line I cared about on the show. I of course tuned in for the last episode like everybody else. Didn't seem to miss much in between.
shareIf this is true, you made a very lucky choice indeed. After rewatching GOT some time ago, I found that this moment is basically where the end started. It all went quickly downhill from there with each season being poorer than the last after that.
But until then GOT had been some of the best TV ever made really. Too bad this great experience is now so tainted by the crap they did in the last season that I will probably never go back and revisit it again.
GoT was always more like real life though -- sometimes heroic figures die in battle or are poisoned. It was clearly trying to upend some longstanding storytelling tropes. And the "slow and plodding" part is what made it great -- diplomacy, factions, side plots, competing objectives, not just good vs. bad with the good guys winning in the end.
shareDexter was awesome, but GOT also featured a very good cast and well written characters. Probably the best characters were indeed killed. The ending.... was horrible, to say the least. So.... given the ending, it's hard to say that it was a great show, because you should be judging it on the whole and not by the best parts of it. Still, I'd argue that the hype was well warranted until the season 7 or 8. Lost.... I saw the first season and realized that it was going nowhere (the characters were lame, and the mysteries didn't seem interesting to me). GoT, it seemed to be heading into an unpredictable but still epic conclusion until.... the author totally fucked up - and this is the fault of George Martin. Until that total fuck up, GoT featured a great cast, well developed characters and a myriad of sophisticated plotlines and relationships in an interesting setting.
shareLOST AND GOT ARE VERY SIMILAR,BOTH STARTED STRONG AND FADED FURTHER AND FURTHER UNTIL THEY HIT THEIR GARBAGE FINALES.BOTH SHOWS RODE A HYPE TRAIN RIGHT PAST THEIR MISTAKES TOWARDS THE CONCLUSION.
shareFrankly Dexter's ending was almost as bad as GoT's. You take a character like Dexter showly show him changing into a complete person that become more normal by the end with actual emotional attachment to others which was completely void in the beginning and then just give it a bullshit ending. It was almost as bad as the shit ending in GoT's.
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