I was on a work retreat/hack-a-thon and the final episode was being broadcast that night. I'd tried and failed to find any part of game of thrones interesting in the past, I'd never seen a complete episode.

Everyone is there glued to the TV, I'm at the dinning room table trying to get some kind of work done, but ended up watching most of the episode.

What a massive pile of crap I thought to myself, no idea what these people are on about.

I'm glad everyone agreed it sucked, but really annoyed that is the only episode I've seen, and I will never waste my time on it.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 17 hours ago

The ending was THE BIGGEST like decade long letdown for everybody that watched it.

In my, and many others' opinions, the show started out extremely strong, and slowly but surely got worse over time..

The show will remain good for many years.

If you want to give the show a fair shake, watch the first ep or first three.

The first season, maybe first two were my favorites and I think started to slowly nose down after that.

The first episode is mostly world building, the next few are where the meat and potatoes start really happening. After that, it's more of the same, with who fucks it up and how and why, with it all being brilliantly written and tied together. But that first episode... It's really not a fantasy show, it's really a psycho political thriller.

Also, regarding the ending, the reason the least season was absolute garbage was because the ending wasn't written, and STILL isn't. The author is going to die before ending the series of books. The showrunners knew that, and steered the show in a way they thought the author might go, but it was smoking hot rancid garbage. The entire last two seasons were. They gave closure, I guess, but the show went from an imdb scale of high 8's and high 9's to literal 6's and 5's at the end. And it was so dark you couldn't see anything. The rest of the show was actually gorgeous, full of intrigue and stress and wondering. Fuck all the rest of the "mmm i didn't like it" shows in this post, GOT is something that, unless you really gave it a fair shake by watching the first ep or three and still didn't like it, you're missing out on, and really should watch.

If you do watch those eps and don't like it, fine. But watching the garbage ending is not at all representative of a show that's a domino effect of a political butterfly effect.