I'm still amazed that in one season Game of Thrones went from a cultural phenomenon to something no one talks about

I'm still amazed that in one season Game of Thrones went from a cultural phenomenon to something no one talks about.

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People say that "cultural eras" that correspond to the decades has stopped, but GoT will forever be associated with the 2010's. The fact the peopel immediately stopped talking about it actually helps.

lmao no. people just scrubbed it from their memory entirely.

the payoff was so shit they're embarrassed to admit they ever followed this crap heap

Like every movie/tv show that was culturally relevant for that decade? The only reason why people still talk about Star Wars 40 years later is because Lucas and later Disney has kept shitting out merchandise and media.

Ending really hurt it badly. A bad last season or two can be redeemed with a decent ending, see Lost. But the fact the last two season were so trash and the ending itself was trash makes basically mean the show needs to be dropped at S7 and with that you have an incomplete unsatisfying show.

This, S8 was so bad it retroactively ruins the other seasons, because you know what it's all leading to, which is just garbage. It honestly should be used as a case study in storytelling on how NOT to finish a project.

On the other hand it's going to save me almost 1TB of space when I delete it from my harddrive.

it's the benchmark for the degree to which it's possible to squander the goodwill of an audience.

>Like every movie/tv show that was culturally relevant for that decade?
Yes, to the extent that your retrospective has time to mention all of them
>The only reason why people still talk about Star Wars 40 years later is because Lucas and later Disney has kept shitting out merchandise and media.
The "evergreen" nature of Star Wars (up until fairly recently) is why it tends not to be associated with the 70's or 80's. It saturated the time but was not really *of* the time period. It also straddles the line between those two decades. Game of Thrones has neither of these issues. It blew-up and became a broad, years-long cultural phenomenon, then went away. This rarely happens anymore. This is why I think it'll be brought-up when faggots makes lists of "things from the 2010's". That could change if the spin-off series is a success and evokes the original series. It could made GoT "evergreen" like Star Wars was, but I don't think this is likely after the way the series ended.

So, it's not all bad news. In GoT, you now have at least one thing that is associated with the 2010's instead of it being a *completely* vague decade in pop culture.

>Avengers Endgame, the biggest movie event of all time in world history, ends up being underwhelming and is soon forgotten
>Game of Thrones, the biggest television event of all time, disappoints even harder
>both happened in the same month of the same year
what a joke.

Star Wars has a niche in the popular consciousness or there wouldn't have still been demand despite repeated disappointments. there isn't really another "sci-fi fantasy" property like it. even after the sequels the Mandalorian still got more attention than it deserved, just for being set in the Star Wars universe.

GoT was always as much about the characters as Westeros for the showfags. that's why the destruction was so total.

>Game of Thrones has neither of these issues. It blew-up and became a broad, years-long cultural phenomenon, then went away

it wouldn't have gone away if they had really nailed the ending. D&D probably blew a chance to make HBO billions of dollars.

all the normies were uncomfortable with how much more they liked dany after she """broke bad""" so it's understandable they just go quiet after the series ends the way they did

it still hurts bros. i needed it to to become the main fantasy series in the pubic conscience

Yep. People also don’t like to admit that the warning signs were as early as s4, but they ignored it because that was the point they jumped on the bandwagon

Season 8 was best season

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Because it was a pile of dogshit after Season 5. Double-Jews also admitted they never read the books and didn't have any idea what they were doing. Season 8 is exactly what you get when you give your IP to nepotistic Hebrew hires that did literally nothing prior to this show. Intellectually and creatively bankrupt tribal hires whose sole insight was
>Let's throw a Hitler into this

Because it is empty soulless (((American))) nonsense. Watch how, in contrast, our boy JRRT will find his works taking their place next to the likes of Dante and Milton over the next couple of centuries. Not even memeing.

What about GRRM?

Banished into the void until the Dagor Dagorath

Actually, no one talks about if anymore because it's done

>pick up the series in early 2011
>almost a decade since the last book now
surely the fat man will release another sample chapter soon?

I don't think GRRM ever thought the show would get made. Even if HBO ordered a pilot, I don't think he thought it would get picked-up and the original pilot probably re-inforced that. When it got picked up, he probably shat himself but assumed it would be canceled or cut short (a la Rome). I think the show getting picked up and becoming a success completely caught him off guard and must be deeply conflicting for him and the people close to him professionally like pic related. Truly "bittersweet" irony.

This is the man who wrote all those political characters. He also understood Hollywood. I think he clocked D&D early on and assumed they would botch it. His worst nightmare must have been realized when HBO threw their full weight (tee hee) behind the show and rescued it from the original pilot, then watched as those two idiots he clocked got to spoil his original endings. I think he's going to invalidate / "subvert" as much of the later show as he can, hence the long wait. He's probably re-writing both of the last two books simultaneously.

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>in one season
You mean in 5 season.

Reminder that in the years between the last book, he’s shitposted enough words on his blog to fill a book the size of a game of thrones and storm of swords combined.

>Rejecting Season 4
It had one bad scene/storyline in S4. The show went to shit in full in Season 5, with the Sand Snek introduction being the "jump the shark" moment.

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gonna need to see some citations on this one, user.

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Hardcore fans were ready to forget the show after S04, most normies realized something was wrong around S06 and then S08 hit and even the normiest normies realized it was crap, But the normies dont make a fuss about it they moved on to the next thing and the "niche" audience of fantasy fags don't/can't make that much noise.

Nope, by 4 it has already given away the game. That being that any character who had any real goal and was working toward it with any level of success would be undermined and killed off. And so you knew everything going forward was just going to be treading water til they got around to wrapping up the storylines of the most boring characters in the show.

there's a negative amount of reasons to watch this show after tywin dies

>sole insight was >Let's throw a Hitler into this
Adolf Targaryen was the only good part of S8

Battle of the Bastards was the moment it died.

Her army magically coming back to life in time to sack King's Landing despite being shown on-screen dying to a man three episodes prior, was my favorite bit

The dialogue and "story" was shit even in Season 4.

anyone remember nuWars, capeshit, dinoshit?
dead culture

cheeky and succinctpilled

>with the Sand Snek introduction being the "jump the shark" moment.
This. Anyone who says otherwise is objectively wrong. The Hebrew Hires didn't even know how to handle them aside from stronk empowered wmymyn angle, so when that ran out of gas they just killed them all off.

Coincidentally, killing them was the only time Euron felt like Euron.

That's true, but only in restrospect as an analysis. It didn't factor into the show as you were watching it. The way those characters ended by the end of S4 was entirely acceptable at the time. There was no reason *at the time* to think the screentime would be replaced with who-gives-a-shit, badly handled new characters and that the remaining characters who forget who they were and why. The show still works through Season 4 (with the exception of Ramsay, who got turned into a cartoon with Yara's rescue sub-plot, as I mentioned).

True of S1, especially the pilot. Jamie confronting Ned in the pilot was super awkward. S2 and S3 were peak kino and S4 had only minor issues. If you had problems with it it AT THAT TIME and you guys aren't just shitting on it after the fact, then you probably never liked GoT to begin with (and that's perfectly fine).

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It was very clinical, I can give you that. Every season after 3 was worse than the one before it, to such a repetitious beat that it almost felt intentional.

To me, the show went to shit with season 3. That's the point where it started to veer off wildly from the books, for the worse.

>If you had problems with it it AT THAT TIME and you guys aren't just shitting on it after the fact, then you probably never liked GoT to begin with (and that's perfectly fine).
no, that's just your opinion. The show went to shit from season 3 and that's an objective fact. It was immediately noticeable, you're the casual here who is coping otherwise.

You give him too much credit. He does not give a single fuck about the last two books and his legacy. He's had a taste of the grand life and he's ready to croak now.

The show died with the 20 good men scene. It’s shambling corpse was when Arya was stabbed more times than Robb and survived with a nap. It was a husk of seasons 1-4 when they went to catch the wight. Saying season 8 killed it just means you’re in denial, it was dead for years.

the showrunners had actual dedication to quality and sticking with the books for the setting up of the first season then as the years went on they exposed themselves as dullards with no creativity despite having all the time and writers they'd ever need, im glad they have no career now

>no, that's just your opinion. The show went to shit from season 3 and that's an objective fact.
no u

Maybe. This is also a valid theory, but hope springs eternal. If someone backed a Brinks truck and started unloading cash if exchange for me being a professional "idea guy" who gets to travel and creep on actresses, fuck yeah i would take that deal. Can't blame the fat bastard, except that you can.

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>it retroactively ruins the other seasons
no it doesn't because seasons 5-7 already sucked ass and seasons 1-4 had already been retroactively ruined by seasons 5 6 and 7. season 7 was close to as bad as season 8. The last two episodes were the most satisfying part of the show since season 4

It was such a sham disappointment of a season. Even the most diehard fans knew it was rushed thoughtless garbage.

>People still think hatred for the ending was because it was bad narratively
>Not because of the complete lack of focus, character marginalization/flanderization, coffee cups, etc.

Vist r/asoiafcirclejerk if you really want to hate this shitshow

literally never heard about anyone talking about the plot of the show. meanwhile I heard people talking about Buffy, Firefly etc.

So when are the two hacks going to announce the Netflix series they've agreed to make? It's been 5 months since they were fired from Star Wars, surely they've got their next genius project ready to be revealed.

memba when Jon Snow fell into arctic water and then walked it off?
memba when Gendry ran back to the wall?
also, season 3 during the Night's Watch rebellion I couldn't get past Gilly's exposed baby surviving more than 2 hours in such conditions

literally happens with every big show. no one talked about breaking bad a week after it ended either.

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lol that you not only think the fat man is writing, but that he wrote things prior to that that he could rewrite.

Season 8 genuinely felt low-budget when they had the dragon arena scene. They went and got a bunch of tents at Lowe's, spray-painted them brown, and that was the set. Like I'm supposed to believe world leaders would meet there, like that.

Yeah people dont still talk about Breaking Bad.
And The Wire? Totally forgot amirite?

I stopped watching after season 5 desu and never finished it. I just want fatman to complete the books so that I can finally know what happens to some (mostly minor, like Myrish Swamp) characters at this point.

>Better Call Saul immediately after
>El Camino last year

Yes.

You mean after season 1

>>Better Call Saul immediately after
different show ya tard
>>El Camino last year
no one watched this. everyone and their grandma watched breaking bad but this was released and on one gave a shit. this is like saying people still talk about deadwood because HBO did a deadwood movie last year, which also similarly no one gave a shit about. TV is entirely ephemeral. when normies stop talking it up around the watercooler it ceases to exist.