I just finished first episode :) I think I'll love it
Pretty messy/confusing first episodes, feels like they are "rushing" it to something. Very epic tough.
Not usually my sort of thing, but so far, I'm impressed. Getting right into it now.
Damn, the cliffhangers make me crazy! Luckily the next episode airs tonight! :-D
Just started the first episode, so far its great! I'm gonna watch every episode straight through
I love this show
Just awesome! Make me want to read the books.
Nice atmosphere :) Story starts off a little complex with so many people but hey... first time I'm excited about a medieval series.
I had to downgrade the rating form 10 -> 9 all is because of Season 8, this is how you almost ruin the best show in the world...!
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"Game of Thrones" is a dark fantasy story about the way in which power corrupts, and everyone, even our biggest heroes, fail us. It is fantasy, but it is adult fantasy. Highly political, violent, dark, and sexual. What makes "Game of Thrones" so great though is that it has created an incredibly epic fantasy world, but still seems so similar to our own. Most of the show is about human desire, and what they will do for love, power and sex. "Game of Thrones" is full of great writing, fantastic character development, awesome build up, and powerful, intense scenes of action, suspense, and emotion. Unfortunately, "Game of Thrones" falls completely off a cliff when it hits season 8, which likely is the only reason it got a 9 instead of a 10 for me. I understand why for some people this ruined the show, but for me, seasons 1-7 were probably the best television I have ever watched (or very close to), and to me, "Game of Thrones" remains an amazing accomplishment.
This show is awesome. The story line, background and characters are phenomenal. love it
A a a a a 89
first few seasons are an 11/10, just astounding world building and enthralling characters. the ending definitely screws the pooch and frankly almost ruins the entire thing, but it's still worth a watch
If it wasn't for the last season, this could have been the goat.
It really hooks you on. The story, the characters.. Everything was perfect, until the end got too confusing me to handle, no idea why they eventually decided to go that way with the ending. Anyways it was a blast watching this.
Somebody asked me,"should i watch it? i hear the last season was awful". You absolutely should. The last season is bad mostly by comparison and by its own high standards, but the series was declining in quality since it stopped following the books, so it was expected (for me at least). This is the greatest fantasy series ever and one of the greatest of any kind. A must watch.
Read the books as they came out, I find this to be extremely well done and a mostly faithful adaptation of the books. The real heroes are the casting people and the art direction, I honestly can't think of a single casting decision I disagree with and feel as if the books have come to life.
for those who loved to read the books of George R.R. Marin: The tvshow has the same awesomeness!!
The ending is good, actually.
one of the top shows of 2011. so many twist and turns it kept me watching till the end.
ending wasn't the best but it definitely was "bitter sweet" as told.
Excellent show but I didn’t read the books. I think it should be watched in one shot, the first time I saw it I had to wait 1 year between 2 seasons and forgot a lot each time. I watched every seasons before watching the last one and I did not regret it!
Fantastic show! I recommend not skipping any episodes. Put on your seatbelt and hang on!
While this fantasy stuff isn't usually my cup of tea, I have to admit I absolutely loved seasons 1-7. Too bad they rushed the final season. This series deserved a way better ending than what it got...
I truly loved it but the last season devasted me :triumph:
Loved it I mean I hated watching the last season but all I do is watch history of Westeros. Lol. Indeepgeek. And order of the green hand so I would have hated it no matter what I've read the books some 4 times some less each around 2 times tho all of them from song of fire and ice and there other books . I'm hardcore when it comes to this world so ya. I dunno it's great but it's hard to enjoy a final season of something u love no matter how it goes
One of the best shows I've seen. The last season however was admittedly bad. I wish they just extended the show. :cry:
One of the best shows I've seen, the last season was horrible though. :(
One of the best shows I've seen in terms of dialogue and surprise. The only reason I'm giving it a 9 and not a 10 is because of the rushed and poor season finale. In my opinion, the show started as a 10/10, then gravitated towards a 9/10 and ended the season finale on a 5/10 performance. While disappointed with the ending (the season itself not the plot/story), I'm grateful for the many season Game of Thrones entertained me with great dialogue and action-packed events.
One of the best shows I've seen in terms of dialogue and surprise. The only reason I'm giving it a 9 and not a 10 is because of the rushed and poor season finale. In my opinion, the show started as a 10/10, then gravitated towards a 9/10 and ended the season finale on a 5/10 performance. While disappointed with the ending (the season itself not the plot/story), I'm grateful for the many season Game of Thrones entertained me with great dialogue and action-packed events.
Using as top reference of my stats sheet.
:hugging: The Game of Thrones
I’ve downgraded the vote from 10 to 9 because the last season was awful!
Just watched the last episode. I love this series. I might rewatch it in a few years, or maybe in a year. Although, many episodes will make me relive the shock, pain, and agony that we all experienced. It would be still worth it, in my opinion. I would have wanted, though, to have seen more characters that were in the books, characters so cool and badass like Big Bucket Wull and to hear his great speech "My last winter.", ad other great speeches that were not included.
But, I am still gratefull for this series.
Thank you, Game of Thrones.
One of the best series I've ever seen in my life !!! Everything perfect, it holds from start to finish, who never watched I do not consider a series lover. Each episode is like it was a movie so well produced that it is !!!
It would honestly be a regret if I haven't still watched Game of Thrones by now. Gladly I did, and it's marvelous! ✌
"The North remember". Arya wins!
The series has been awesome so far, can it get any better¿
Season 1 was interesting, season 2 was awful, season 3 was not really bad at all. If I would have watched season 2 before season 3, I would have stopped around episode 4 and never watched this show again. Thank the writers for Khaleesi, she's the only reason I continue to watch at this point.
So many plot holes, such horrible writing, boring drama, action is only near the end of each episode as to manufacture a cliff hanger. And the biggest issue I have is the complete ignorance to time. How long does it take to walk, compared to riding, etc? I have 3 seasons of Gotham coming up next, but getting through the next 3 seasons of GOT my be impossible.
I would not recommend this show.
This is a really great show overall tbh. Season 6 managed to get me to really like Jon and Cersei (my former most hated character) in just 2 episodes. Some people say GoT is character driven but i really have to disagree. GoT has somewhat weak characters and is interesting because of the events that happen in the story, not because of the characters who cause them. Some of D&D's decisions have the opposite effect on viewers that they're supposed to have (like trying to make people think Jon is charging forward towards Ramsay out of blind rage when we know that he sees arrows being shot at him and therefore come to the conclusion that he's trying to avoid them, trying to make the viewers fear Jon for justifiably beating the everloving shit out of his half-sister's rapist and half-brother's murderer, etc. I'm told OITNB makes similar decisions.) and the Tumblr fem fanservice (women being accepted into positions of power without any backlash in an extremely misogynistic society, le jaden smith squint I wil rool..." dragon mom herself, etc.) can be cringey but it still has good enough writing and action to appeal to its male viewers. I'd give it an 8 because of some of the decisions made in seasons 5 and 6 but I'm bumping it up to a 9 because of bastardbowl and some scenes in earlier seasons that I really enjoyed.
The best tv serie I have ever watched!
GoT is set in a complex fictional world with an incredible array of characters, strong, with a depth hard to find in most shows let alone one based in a fantasy world. Each actor has put their all into their part. Winter is Coming.
This show is great but why Jon Snow? :(
Fav tv show..
The best of all time for me.
Another fantastic HBO show. Well written acted utterly brutal like the books
Amazing, great tension filled episodes leave you hanging for the next one.
I can't argue on the fact that it's a great one !
But sometimes, too many stories poorly followed, no action till the 2 last episodes ...
Anyway, it's still a 9 ! :)
Love it, I would exclude nude and sex scenes, not necesary!
For this time, is my best tv show, it's awesome!!! The scenes, the plot...
The season one is excellent and the season two, well it was a quite more bad, but the second book of this saga it isn't the best book!!! For me, the scenes I cut down are the sex scenes, because one or two, ok, ten or twenty, sorry but not!
But I love this show!!!
Haven't read the books, but know people who love them.
I've always loved stories with complex characters, the politics that draw them together and the boobies that set them apart. :)
A few episodes in now and I'm pretty well sold.
Wow, This is good I have not read the books and now I want too. The first episode was incredible. cant wait for next week.
Seasons 1 to 4 were arguably among the best TV ever created. But the show steadily went downhill after they went past the books and it became clear the writers were in way over their heads. Seasons 5 and 6 were decent, season 7 was bad, and season 8 was one of the worst seasons of television ever put to screen. Just unbelievable. D & D should seriously rethink their career choices after that finale.
Big loss... it was one of my favourites until sixth season. I really loved it so I'm really disgusted because they basically ruin it... they had a great story, great actors... great all! And at the end they fucked it.
Fantastic Brilliant and Awesome to watch from start to End
Brilliant and unmissable show until the final season where they wrecked years of work. final season seemed rushed and botched, disappointing.
The first 6.5 seasons were really great, often truly amazing. The last 1.5 seasons were poor. The last 1 season was terrible. The last 0.5 season was just an utter disappointment that made me really sad. Overall, still one of the best TV series in the world.
Amazing if you only watch Seasons 1-3.
cersei lannister did nothing wrong
I love Cersei so much.
everything ends up being women in power
This is the first show ever to make me go from a 9/10 for the first 5 seasons to a 10/10 for the sixth one!
There will be a before and an after Game of Thrones in television history. Must watch! And several times!
Excuse me, but what exactly happened in season 2 through season 4? In every season there was one interesting episode, maybe two. Season 1 was the best in my opinion; each episode was thrilling and exciting. I could't wait for the next episode. Now when I watch it I literally fall asleep.
Khaleesi and Jon Snow are just as beautiful as they are boring. Yes, Daenerys is a strong and powerful woman, but all she does is talk and even though she moved a lot the past seasons, her character is static. On the other hand, what Jon constantly does is training. Nothing exciting about that. Still, "The Watchers on the Wall" episode was one of the two interesting episodes of season 4.
The same happens with another show that started amazing and now there is almost nothing interesting in it: The Walking Dead.
Hate me if you want but my words are not untrue.
For christ sake, more and more stuff different than in the book :/
I was so confused on how to rate this. On one hand, you have season 1-4 which I believe to be the peak of television ever. On the other hand, you have season 5-8 which ranges from okay to terrible.
Season 1-4 was amazing since it mostly focused on what the show is about...A game for the iron throne. The politics of the seven kingdoms fighting for the seat was great. After running out of book material, they show basically turned into a Michael Bay movie relying heavily on CGI and dumbed down characters making dumb jokes.
Tyrion went from being the smartest character to be reduced to silly cock jokes. Littlefinger and Varys suffer a similar fate. They completely butcher Jaimie's character arc. Basically every main character was given every plot armor possible. I honestly wonder who was in the writing room in the latter seasons. I'm just glad Tywin was killed so his character wouldn't be disgraced
Seasons ranked:
season 4 - Wowzers! Peak television right here.
season 3 - Amazing.
season 2 - Great.
season 1 - Great.
season 6 - Okay.
season 5 - Mediocre. Such a disappointment especially coming off season 4.
season 7 - Bad.
season 8 - Terrible.
The Stark mongrels all deserved to be deskinned just as much as all the Lannister subhumans. That's about all I have to say about this show. Sansa Stark may have been the most vile of them all. Everyone knew what the Lannisters were, but she connivingly worked her way into an undeserved seat of power. She should've had her skull bashed in, instead. At the end, the people of color and a woman win two wars and bring peace to the realm, and the whites decide to betray and murder the woman, and tell the people of color that they'll die, if they enforce justice for the murder of their queen. They should've slaughtered all those white mongrel subhumans right there in the dragon pit, starting w/ the Starks.
good, entertaining, but flawed and disappointing at the messy end. this show is good but nowhere near as good as the ratings suggest. 7/10 max.
Entertaining but cliched and highly overrated. Way too many sex and torture violence exploitation scenes... I can just imagine the producers sitting down with the directors saying I think we need to have some more sex in this episode we haven't had any for over half an hour. Some of the characters have multi dimensions but some of them have one dimension and they are just purely evil people who enjoy torturing others, which is idiotic in my opinion. Very frequently decisions are made by the characters which are illogical and stupid and obviously just have to happen because it makes the story more dramatic... but one feels exploited in moments like these. by in large it is very entertaining and well made but the pituitary fighting scenes are extremely boring and are designed, obviously, for teenage boys. 7/10.
I am definitely late to the Game of Thrones game, but I just watched it in its entirety, and I was underwhelmed I suppose. After hearing so many glaring praises, I believe I hyped it up too much in my head. Don't get me wrong, it is a really really solid show. Cinematography and musical scores are incredible from start to finish. The plot is complex and pushes boundaries in the fantasy genre. HOWEVER, let's be real, the first season is pretty slow and confusing. At other times throughout the eight seasons it does slow to a crawl. Maybe it has more to do with my general disinterest in the fantasy genre, but I found it hard to get invested and stay invested the entire time throughout the series. There were undoubted high points. There were undoubted "page turners" that made me wanting more. But at no point was I hooked to the point of thinking this show was "amazing" like so many people built it up to be. Not to mention the ending. The show got substantially worse once the show creators ran out of book source material, but that ending was simply not good. Hard to call a whole show "amazing" when it falls off so hard by the end. Overall, solid show, but will definitely be better if you are interested in the genre or have read the books.
Average Season Review: 8.19/10
Recommendation - At Least Give it a Whirl (for Fantasy Genre Fans)
EDIT (After Spin-off House of the Dragon: Season 1)
The spin off was good. As someone that was never fully in love with Game of Thrones, and believed the original show took a bit to get going, I never expected this one to immediately hit the upper tier of GoT seasons. I am curious where the plot builds to in future seasons!
Average Season Review: 8.17/10
8 - Great
This would've gotten a 20 if it hadn't been for the... less than stellar last seasons. Such a great show the first 4 seasons and you never knew where it was going to go to but after the show ran out of book material it got a bad less, still good, but not on the amazing level the first 4 seasons where. What a show.
Weak 8. For those who knew the saga until the show had a support in it, it was not that bad. When the source ran out, the quality of it dropped significantly.
If you have not read the work of George R.R. Martin's the series may be pleasing (it has momentum), otherwise it is difficult to watch it without looking on it through the book.
BEST SHOW EVA! ——-Sike lol :)
Idk abt anybody else but I found that ending to be real lame for a series finale.:unamused:
Game of Thrones is a great show, it comes from an amazing book series and while I don't agree with many of the differences between the two the show is still great. There are parts that will infuriate you, both due to nonsensical writing and due to purposeful story situations but it tells a really compelling story. There are a ton of characters so you will easily find a few that you'll love no matter who you are. The action is fairly well done, the fantasy aspects are kept in control, and the thematic presence of the show is fantastic if you are into that. The acting ranges from very, very weak to very strong. The set and costume design is gorgeous and really takes you to another world. The directing is hit and miss but definitely hits more than it misses. if you like Fantasy, politics, or just shows in general that get you to speculate a lot then GOT is a good choice. I do think it is overrated but it is still great.
Season Ranking: 8>1>3>7>6>>>>>>4>>>>>>>>2>>>>>>>>>>>>>5
Can't wait for final season
Games of Thrones season 7 was the best ever, all the annoying people are gone and we can concentrate on the best one. A good series, intrigues takes time but not betrayals ! Well can't wait to see the rest !
An amazing tv show, just a little to slow
I have a love hate relationship with this show. On one hand when they stick to the book and certain actors (Nikolaj, Sophie, Alfie, etc.) are given the proper screen time it is a great adaptation of one of my favorite book series. On the other hand when they show runners try to improvise their way around the story the results can be catastrophic especially when giving actors like Emilia Clarke or Sibel Kekilli a lot of screen time. They also simplify everything too much. It's a complex story, leave it complex. It's not the greatest show ever but it's worth a watch if you're into fantasy or political drama.
Well done and filmed.
First season better than 2nd one.
Episode 5 was a awesome episode!
This is like Mass effect games. Mostly amazing, sometimes disappointing...with an ending that ruins the entire ride.
First 4 seasons, perfect narrative, dialogue and consequence. 10/10. Seasons 5 and 6, complete dip in all around quality with enough published foreshadowing and plot points from George to get by. 7/10. Seasons 7 and 8, dumpster fire with zero narrative consequences, no consistent character action nor any redeemable arc conclusions. The cinematography and production earns the entirety of the final seasons 4/10. Impossible to give this "complete" story anything above a 7. Completely betrays the characters and the audience.
An amazing show tainted by disappointing deviations from the source material and two absolutely awful last seasons. Bad last seasons will always ruin a show for me if the show is intended to portrait a continuous story with ever evolving characters and plot lines. The ending is as important as the beginning if you are trying to tell me a story. The ending of Game of Thrones was a joke, some of the worst writing I have ever witnessed on TV, the show was ruined and honestly at this point I just want to forget about it. The fans deserved better. George R R Martin deserved better. The people that worked on the show deserved better. It's what you get when a show is made hostage by two horrible writers that are in a hurry to ruin Star Wars next. I honestly wouldn't recommend this show to anyone anymore unless they don't mind getting massively disappointed with the last 20 episodes or so.
If you enjoyed the finale, power to you, but this is my opinion. Game of Thrones is a show I don't intend to watch ever again. Hopefully HBO wont ruin the prequels/spin-offs although I don't think I care anymore.
After reviewing the 8 seasons individually and averaging my personal scores it gets a 7.4 out of 10 from me, it's a shame because the first four seasons were close to being perfect.
Was a great show, until it wasn’t.
Not sure if that even makes sense, but "Game of Thrones" could be an excellent example of a down-to-earth fantasy. Magic and superstition have a tangible impact on the events - you could replace the dragons with nuclear weapons and it will still make sense. You can see blood, sweat, and all kinds of body fluids in a hostile world where there is (almost) no plot armor for anybody. Revenge is hardly direct, and good guys don't always get to win.
My favorite thing is the focus on the sociopolitical implications rather than empathy with individual characters. It doesn't matter if a major character gets abruptly killed mid-season; their house's story will keep going on without losing its main thread. Characters can change sides and do the most questionable things, but there will always be a detailed sociological setup that had led to those decisions. Everything is affected by chaos and chance, but it still seems to happen in the function of someone's story arc.
The early seasons are more focused on character development and world-building, with most minor battles happening off-screen. It's probably due to budget restrictions rather than storytelling necessities, but the action for each season is limited to one "zombie" episode and one traditional battle episode (usually the penultimate). The rest is primarily dialogue-driven. The second, third, and fifth seasons are the least eventful, but they also happen to have at least one memorable episode or a mind-blowing plot twist towards the end. The pacing got remarkably tighter from the sixth season, which also happens to be the first after the writers ran out of material to adapt from the books. There the writers did a remarkably good job and remained coherent with the source material.
Unfortunately, the writing took a significant turn for the worse with the seventh season, getting much closer to any other mediocre TV show, flirting with soap-opera level dialogue and filling pages with logical fallacies and forced or incoherent character development.
The meticulous construction of the source material has been both GOT's strength and weakness. For the portion that covers Martin's books, the central plot was mostly kept on hold while expanding the scope sideways, with tons of new characters and locations each season. This made the show remarkably rich, but at the same time it made it hard to wrap up coherently. It might have worked if they were planning to keep going on for decades, but there's no way that a couple of seasons could close so many meticulously built-up character arcs. From the sixth season onwards, you can clearly notice that the showrunners started to purposedly cut storylines and kill off characters just to make the load lighter and write themselves out of the corner with many situations. The overall direction of the plot is still coherent with the previous seasons, but the ways the characters end up to their outcomes became highly questionable. Many character arcs that have been carefully drawn over have been conveniently cut out, some regressed or lost their whole purpose, some even ended up being exploited for mere fanservice purposes. Another big flaw comes from the fact that the characters that would take on a more prominent role towards the end also happen to be the ones played by the most terrible actors in the cast, killing any further chance to add nuance to their relationships.
Regardless of the problems with the writing, the show has outstanding production value, compelling world-building, and, even at its worst, it always manages to be gripping and engaging. That's not obvious for a show that is made of 80% talking, 15% action, and 5% boobies in the air. It's also one of the rare cases where slow pacing becomes a necessity, as it takes time to remember all characters and their intricate relationships as the plot keeps turning, twisting, and subverting expectations. Characters are first introduced as either black or white, but as the show progresses, things get more and more ambiguous. It's rarely to the point you will change sides, but there were many moments I could get into the bad guys' shoes and empathize with them as much as with the protagonists.
S4 > S1 > S6 > S3 > S2 > S5 > S7 > S8
I love to be watching this right now
Unlike most of the social group-think crowd out there, I LOVED season 7. In fact, seasons 6, 5, & 7 (in that order) are my favorite seasons. I absolutely HATED seasons 1, 2, & 3 and season 4 was only moderately viewable for me after episode 4, I'm mostly indifferent to season 4. Season 5 is where I became a fanboy of the series, though. And that's not to say that seasons 1-4.3 were "bad" seasons. Only that I don't/didn't care for that particular type of storytelling, which stems from a larger problem I have with The Song of Ice and Fire in general. 3.5 seasons/books of "...But I'm the rightful ruler of Westeros..." plotting was so nauseating; for me; to watch/sit through/read. But season 8 is simply a travesty of biblical proportions. It IS bad, it IS uninspired, it IS lazy, it IS disrespectful and it down right cheapens the entirety of the series when taken as a whole. The season 8 farce is the reason I can only give this series a 7-heart rating.:disappointed:
The dead of Ned Stark was probably the most surprising one from all the series I watched, I saw GoT on a COMPLETLY LEGAL streaming plataform and started watching... somehow I had never heard of it before. I kinda knew the series was gonna be good from the first few episodes but I still I was 110% sure than some Deus Ex Machina type shit would happen and save need, needless to say that Joffrey destroyed all of my hope.
Still this series could have easily been a masterpiece, but it started getting worst on season 5, than I thought everything was fine because on season 6 it got good again... but then season 7 and 8 came in complety killing almost everything that was built until that point.
It could've been a masterpiece, but it isn't.
7/10
Lost my interest pretty fast.. Stopped at season 3. Couldn't make myself watch it further than that.
Season 1 was good. Season 2 was a 3 hour story dragged out 10 hours, not so good.
Out of all the fan theories that circulated over the years, you would be hard pressed to find one that was dumber and more disappointing than what the actual final season turned out to be. You would be better off watching Cats the movie in its place, because then you would at least be able to laugh and cringe rather than feel immeasurable disappointment and emptiness.
If you can stop yourself from watching the entire show, you might do well watching seasons one through seven and picking your favourite fan theory to close out the series. Truthfully, even seasons five, six and seven were weaker than the first half of the show, but at the time it seemed forgivable because of the show's strong beginning and the expectation that everything would tie together nicely at the end.
Those foolish enough to watch to the end will be faced with an experience similar to the five stages of grief and loss as they make their way through the final episodes. Denial that this episode is actually part of the series and not an out of season April Fool's joke. Anger that you let yourself get so invested in this show after refusing to get on the bandwagon for so many years. Bargaining, that these were fake episodes to "subvert your expectations", or that the season could be remade. Depression, that this is actually the real thing and it somehow turned out so poorly. Finally, acceptance. Just an empty feeling, no anger or sadness over increasingly stupid and illogical scenes and outcomes. Just coming to terms with this really being the end of the show and this somehow managing to get released.
It comes together about as well as a project finished in the last hour of the last day before a deadline, despite having had vast resources to pull from over the two preceding years. The only remotely redeemable aspect of the final season is the endless amount of hilarious critical reviews and memes that come at its expense.
As for the rating, it would be unfair to give a give a 1 the entire series as a whole because of the incompetence of the writers in the final season. The series did start strong and everyone involved in the project aside from the writers obviously invested a lot of time and quality work into the show. The acting, music composition, cinematography, editing, visual effects, etc. all ranged from great to amazing.
Great Show but the last season broke the show, that why i changed my vote from 9 to 6. All nice little hints and stories became broke in the season so this show was a real disappointment for me.
Is ok
Great show! Ending pretty bad but great overall! 7/10
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The first few episodes, I was really confused. But after the third episode it started to really pick up. Glad I stuck with it, can't wait for season 2.