I don't drink anymore (Health) but doc said it was okay to have a glass of wine every now and again. Stressed "a glass" and I did have occasion just last week at my daughters BD dinner since there was a bottle on the table. It made me think of GOT and the very colorful character Peter Dinklage played who drank wine day and night, yet was one of the most articulate and intelligent characters in the series.

I miss Sundays when GOT was playing.

Didn't para say he never wanted to hear about it, again? https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...935/m/3390086654/p/1

Not to mention, you could have just bumped the thread for the final season to post your thoughts.

I miss the anticipation amd the show being awesome


The last season just makes it worse

If my memory is correct, Para said he didn’t want to hear about it in non-related threads like the person that just has to say “Winter is coming” every time they think it’s clever. M

Anyway, I’m on episode 2 of season 8 so no, not missing it yet.

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Originally posted by Orguss:
Didn't para say he never wanted to hear about it, again? https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...935/m/3390086654/p/1

Not to mention, you could have just bumped the thread for the final season to post your thoughts.

Sorry if I offended anyone. This popped into my head driven by the circumstances I cited and thought I'd share because I really liked Dinklage's character and how well he played it. I know not everyone liked GOT and I'll agree it got a bit silly towards the end. Just a TV series with no life or death implications or deep social or moral meanings. I'll leave it at that and close the book on it.

I do miss the show and am considering rewatching at least the big battle episodes before probably canceling HBO Go. It was a hell of a ride, despite the mostly disappointing ending.

Yes when it was good, it was top notch entertainment.

I don't even mind the ending itself, what happened wasn't so bad, it was just the sudden leap to get there with no explanation. Really needed another season to flesh out

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Originally posted by Orguss:
Didn't para say he never wanted to hear about it, again? https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...935/m/3390086654/p/1

Not to mention, you could have just bumped the thread for the final season to post your thoughts.

My main objection is people shoe-horning this stuff into threads unrelated to the TV show. If you guys want to discuss it in this thread, that's fine, because that means that anyone who wishes to avoid it can refrain from opening this thread.
Just as long as someone doesn't stretch to make some reference to this TV show in some other thread which is about some other subject.

I think I mentioned this in the other GOT thread, but...

We don't have subscription TV or a streaming subscription to HBO. The only GOT episode, or episodes we saw were from a DVD or BD rental. We've read the books. (Until they, too, went off the rails and became uninteresting.) We did not find the series particularly interesting from what we saw.

So: No, not missing it in the least.

Enjoyed the show, sure it went a bit off rails toward the end, but that's no different than other popular series endings such as The Sopranos, SOA, et al. I think sometimes the writers get caught between writing an acceptable ending and the budget/studios directives.

About the only series that ended well IMO was Justified....

Oh yeah I don't really miss GOT, but not because the writing slipped or the story line went sideways, or any of the other negative reasons presented, just that its time for something new,

My wife and I were just having this very discussion the other day. It seems like, at least to my wife and I, that we have reached a point where there really is not a tv series like GOT or movie collection like Harry Potter or Lord of The Rings that is currently being done or coming down the pike.

All the ones we had been interested in are now done and nothing coming has really excited us beyond a few one off movies from a past collection like Joker and Black Widow but no epic collection spanning multiple movies or a tv series coming that we see.

Don’t miss it one bit. They ruined it like Disney ruined Star Wars.

I mean Hollyweird throws gas on any fire that is working.

Burnout list:
Underoo wearing SuperHo’s. At this rate every comic ever written will have a film. Where is the original scripts and characters?

Zombies, werewolves, vampires. How many films have covered these the last 5-20 years?

Sorcerers, wizards, magic, dragons, etc? Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, GOT.

Disney with Star Wars. Scheduled 2-3 time a year until it tanked.

Haven't watched it yet, no HBO. I will watch when it's available elsewhere

It was an entertaining story but the world in which it took place was the real star to me. The story fizzled out. BAD. But the universe they imagined is still one of the best in recent television.

Someone should let NavyGuy know that it's OK to come back to his own thread.

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It was an entertaining story but the world in which it took place was the real star to me. The story fizzled out. BAD. But the universe they imagined is still one of the best in recent television.

So what season does it turn to shit?

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Originally posted by Ryanp225:
It was an entertaining story but the world in which it took place was the real star to me. The story fizzled out. BAD. But the universe they imagined is still one of the best in recent television.

So what season does it turn to shit?

IMHO - the last few episodes only because there should have been about two or three times as many [episodes] to tell the whole story in detail.

BTW - the series can be streamed from HBO Now

I thoroughly enjoyed it and believe it to be one of the best produced shows ever made for the small screen. That said, the way they screwed th epooch for Season 8 left me bitter. I don't miss the show that was....I miss the final season that could have been.

But really, I haven't thought about it much since it ended. It was great. It's over. Moving on.

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Originally posted by BigSwede:
So what season does it turn to shit?

IMHO - the last few episodes only because there should have been about two or three times as many [episodes] to tell the whole story in detail.

Bingo. They tried to cram into the last few episodes what they should have tried to do over a full season or two.

(Not that I think GOT should have been 10 seasons, but rather they should have started work on the resolution of those plotlines earlier in its run, to give enough time to do them justice, rather than having to barrel through it in a headlong rush to get it all wrapped up in time.)

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I think they jumped the shark at the Battle of Winterfell. Too many main characters survived stupid odds and they should have had the dead army just roll over them like flood water.
From that episode until the end was not of the same caliber as the rest of the series.