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Originally Posted by KcMsterpce
I would say seasons 1-4 are some of the best television I've ever seen.
Season 5 started to turn into a parody of itself in ways, going for excessive cliches and more simplistic story beats. Also, if you read the book, many of the editorial decisions/changes from the book were questionable at best, and outright mind-numbingly illogical at its worst. - Not having knowledge of the book helps, in this case.
Season 6 was, in my opinion, quite bad. The "Battle of the Bastards" is very cinematic, and beautiful... but gosh-darn a really, really illogical battle that made my head spin. Also, the deus ex machina threw me for a major loop.
The "new" bad guy is so terribly evil that I thought I was watching a parody.
Season 7, I learned to accept it as "dumb, big fun".
Season 8 was the worst season, more than season 5 or 6. But... it was finally over, and I was relieved that I no longer needed to hope for something better, nor wait for further seasons of emotional turmoil for What Could Have Been. But my God, it was obvious that the writers had little talent when it came to understanding how to build off the foundation set by the books.
So, overall a mixed bag. But worth a watch, especially if you have foreknowledge that the show could potentially not maintain the S1-4 glory days.
Because so many people love this show, I recommend it to everyone. YMMV, more so for this show than almost any other.
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Dumping a lot of stuff from the books was the right call imo especially since the god damm books are not even finished yet If they introduced lady stone heart what the hell do they do with her since George’s story is not even finished we and D&D don’t know and if she was super important to his endgame I’m sure he would have told D&D.
It’s an insanely difficult task to wrap this show up in a logical satisfying conclusion I bet that’s why George is taking so long. The difference there is he can have all the time he wants to do it but with TV productions especially as big as GOT it’s just no way possible.
I envy new viewers haha and say when binge watching treat S7&8 as one long final season it’s only 13 episodes 3 longer than the usual GOT season sure 3 episodes got an extra 15mins slapped on not a big deal HBO
Made it sound like all 6 episodes were going to be full length 2 hour movies before release such bullshit