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I guess it wasn’t soo bad on an objective scale but just fully killed the relevance of the show.
Legit I've never had a desire to rewatch any of it since the ending.
I remember seeing leaks being posted on freefolk and thinking no fucking way these are real, realising they were, and then shitting on the rest of the last season with my partner, only way we got through it.
I use Game of Thrones as a textbook example of how to write a show with a diverse set of characters, locations, and motivations (in the early seasons all those moving pieces fit together remarkably well), and also how not to do that, with all the plots going to pieces and the characters and their motivations falling apart in the last couple seasons.
It's pretty amazing how strong the show starts and how hard it screws the pooch by the end.
As long as they had source material to follow, the showrunners did okay. When they passed the end of the latest book, it all went to hell.
The still had the source material, they just wanted to end it as soon as possible.
I'm not sure how you could capture the cultural significance of the show in this type of graph.
I don't know what y'all are talking about about. GoT ended after season 5. It's a shame they never finished it.
I find it weird how a lot of people always talk about the ending of game of thrones was bad, bit season 7 was just as bad or worse. Season 6 was pretty bad as well, all it had going was basically: man i wonder what the next season is like. I don't even think the ending is too bad, it's just implemented horribly. They just needed to end it as quickly as possible. Season 7 was pretty much the low point for me. It became like a twitter show. Oh people like that character, he's not gonna fie and gets more screen time. Or i don't remember what season it was, but i remember watching it and thinking: why are they focusing the camera so much on this random ginger soldier. I only figured out way later that he's a singer who had a cameo in the show. The show had so many flaws that people (me too) just overlooked because i was just interested in where it's going and i haven't read the books at this point. But when season 8 came around people just realised that it's in fact not going anywhere.
One of the things that Game of Thrones did well early was always ensure the payoff was worth it. If you didn't like an episode here or there, it was fine because it advanced the plot enough that you still followed the breadcrumbs and another episode down the line made it worth it.
Season 8 was so bad because many people tolerated elements of seasons 5, 6, and 7 because they were hoping for payoff. When that payoff was underwhelming at best and utterly nonsensical at worst, people tuned out fast. People spent hundreds of hours over a decade watching the show and discussing it with their friends, and in the end, it wasn't worth it. I don't think I've ever seen something disappear so completely and quickly from the cultural zeitgeist.
I was going to argue that while season 7 was bad, it wasn't as bad as season 8. But then, I remembered how shit the Beyond the Wall episode was.
I gotta stop. This is just too stupid.