Does anyone else here absolute despise game of thrones as both a show and a phenomenon...

Does anyone else here absolute despise game of thrones as both a show and a phenomenon? Because I'm starting to feel like I'm the only one.

I'm a huge fan of fantasy as a genre and when I heard how great GOT was, I was excited to watch the show, but I just couldn't get into it at all. I find it really unengaging and I feel indifferent to every character, they are all so boring, over half of them can be described as "stoic medieval man" and that's their entire character. It tries to be overly shocking and edgy, but it just comes off as juvenile. It thinks it's way smarter than it is.
The effects, costumes and sets are great for tv, but that's about as much praise as I can give.

The fanbase is easily the worst fanbase Ive ever come across, much worse than even the Rick and Morty fans. Whenever GoT season comes around I have to insure constant fucking GoT chatter from turbonerds and normies alike from work and at home. You just can't escape it.

"Hey did you watch the newest episode of GoT?"

"No, I don't watch GoT"

"WTF!? You HAVENT WATCHED GOT?, you haven't lived bro, start watching it, it's the best thing you'll ever watch."

"I've seen up until season 5 and I didn't like it."

"WTF!! How can you not like GoT!! Is it too smart for you or something" (followed by the chuckle of a true intellectual.)

This is how it goes every time GoT is brought up in conversation. I'm fucking sick of it. Everyone loves it, my own mother can't get enough of it. I'm starting to think I'm the strange one here. I can't wait for that show to end so I don't have to ever fucking hear about shitty fucking John snow and fucking oberyn who people STILL talk about even though he appeared and died in the same fucking season, three seasons ago.

GET OVER CUNTING OBERYN YOU FUCKING SLUTS

>I have social problems and think distancing myself from social phenomena makes me interesting

The show hasn't been on for months, and won't be on again for months, and it STILL got you absolutely seething.

wait where's the /got/ general?

Seasons 1-4 are great and 5 was okay but that's the point when quality noticeably dropped. People still watch out of obligation since they've dedicated so much time to it like Walking Dead fans will keep watching.

>If someone dislikes something I like, their must be something fucky going on with them psychologically

I agree, my good sire. Popular shows are all for mindless sheep, unlike ourselves. Heh.

Jesus.

Is this a copypasta? Otherwise I agree.

we were banished to /trash/ by a faggot ass mod who didn't like our memes

I hate how based Jorah has turned into comedic relief rather than taken seriously. For a cuck he sure has more chemistry with Dany than Jon does anyway

You're certainly not the only one. I maybe watched first four episode, then I lost interest. Mind that I've read the books till the fifth one, so I knew it turns to shit later on.

literally what other fantasy show even comes close. Every time I see people criticizing shit like this I'm going, what else are you watching? I'm sure your very specific D&D scenario was very interesting, but as far as actual tv shows go, GoT is it so you'll watch it like everyone else.

Seasons 1-3

>TELEVISION KINO.... DESU CANT EVEN DESCRIBE THE LEVEL OF UNPRECEDENTED KINO IT REACHED

>Saiyan scouter: EXPLODE

Season 4

>DROP IN POWER BUT KINO LEVELS FROM SEASONS 1-3 STILL BURN STRONG AND YOU STRAP YOURSELF IN FOR SOME COMFY RESOLUTIONS AND FURTHER PLOT DEVELOPMENT

>Saiyan scouter: cracked

Season 5 and 6

>KINO LEVELS FROM PRIOR SEASONS NO LONGER CARRY THE SHIT SHOW THAT HAS COMMENCED, WE SEE POWER LEVEL INCREASE ONLY MOMENTARILY VARYING IN CERTAIN SCENES. WE GRADUALLY AND THEN RAPIDLY REALIZE SOME CHARACTER AND STORY PLOTS WILL NEVER BE COMPLETED OR REVISITED AGAIN. FAN SERVICE IS AT AN ALL TIME HIGH, EVEN TO THE POINT OF CLEAR-AS-DAY CHARACTER CONTRADICTION---WE ARE LITERALLY STILL WATCHING BECAUSE WE'VE ALREADY INVESTED 6 SEASONS IN THIS SHIT

>Saiyan scouter: new update available notifications

Season 7

>LMAO

>Saiyan scouter: on sale

>Because I'm starting to feel like I'm the only one.

are you serious?

Yes, I am, I've never seen anyone say anything about this show other than its the greatest thing ever.

>if everyone else watches it, it must be good
>>>>/reddit/

No, because there isn't enough high-production genre stuff out there that even comes close. I tried watching that CW capeshit stuff after I marathoned the show, and it was all so utterly banal in comparison to even Season 7.

It was impossible to maintain the same level of quality that 1-4 had when the coming zombie invasion basically forces you to become an action show.

Season 5 suffered some of the same faults the books did as what they were doing was running on fumes. Season 6 had some clumsy moments, but It had some good payoffs as well. Aside from one really dumb sequence (Wight Hunt) Season 7 was very average because of the rushed pacing and really needed three more episodes. Much of the criticism is due to the fact that the early seasons were such high quality political drama, that the transition into dumb a action show wasn't as seemless as it could have been.

To be fair /got/ was probably producing like 10x the amount of reports than the average Sup Forums general

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So it's pretty obvious Danaerys is the real villain of the series.
Only question is whether or not they'll have the guts to kill her and all her dragons off.

>seasons 1-4 are great
I'm watching the show for the first time right now and I don't understand this at all. Season 1 was pretty good, but the writing is noticeably worse in season 2. Like it's complete shit in certain scenes, like the entire Robb lovestory, all of Danaerys' scenes, anytime Shae is on screen,all of the needless whore scenes etc. I don't understand how you could compare this to actually well-written shows like The Sopranos, Rome, I Claudius, The Wire, Deadwood, Mad Men, even Breaking Bad for fuck's sake. It's like a slightly better version of Spartacus.

Name Lord Bolton's sword, Sup Forums.

Fair enough. It's really a matter of preference I think. Season 5 onward dispels with a lot of this stuff and basically becomes a big-budget action show. A lot of the posters on here preferred the more political stuff, but a lot of more general audiences prefer the more action-orientated stuff.

>A lot of the posters on here preferred the more political stuff
The political stuff is so sloppily written though. It's literally just House of Cards in a fantasy setting. The show has always been geared towards the lowest-common denominator audience. The political "machinations" are so clearly spelled out for the audience it's ridiculous.

the show is shit. it appeals to retarded idiots with a short attention span that enjoy seeing degenerate acts of incest and gratuitous scenes of gore, nudity, and murder. its a sad state that society has fallen to in order for a show like this to become so popular. youre one of the few sane people left on this planet. the show has no substance. it relies on overly stimulating its audience with a bunch of cheap thrills and a lame "everyone dies" trope. having a.d.d. is basically a prerequisite to enjoy this garbage. youre not alone op.

They got cucked to /trash/ and well deserved

currently watching through it, midway through s2

i can see why some people wouldn't like it, but I personally find it a lot better than the mass amounts of drivel that circulates television now'days.
let's be honest, is it REALLY any worse than all the fucking retarded reality shows, mindless junky kino, edgelord media, etc?
i'd much rather watch this than 90% of the shit that's on tv now and that's as someone with a large and varied taste and someone who also despised GOT (albeit without watching it).
Now I love it, and it does have some nicely structured undertones and messages without trying to think it's TOO smart or whatever.

Much better than R&M, even TWD, etc

ROTK 2010 did a much, much better political drama than GOT. most of the people in GOT aren't relevant to anything because they die so quickly or have like 5 lines of dialogue once every 5 episodes. i don't remember who anyone even is because they needlessly pad shit out for characters no one cares about.

at least the chinese had the fucking courtesy to display the characters name once in the first scene they're in every episode. at least then i know who's who and what their overall role is.

My only complain is how the books are much better and less rushed than the show.
Sadly due to its popularity we'll never get a proper adaptation.

i hate the lord of light stuff, resurrection, and bran time travel shit

other than that i like the show, although it was better going off the books than the new stuff now

>large and varied taste
>only TV shows he cites is Rick and Morty and The Walking Dead
GOT fans really are brainlets

Yes it did, I wish they had made it longer to cover more details and how the ROTK winded down. I wanted some Deng Ai action. Oh well, it still did amazingly well.

an anime would be the only way to do it justice

>less rushed than the show
i would hope so for how long it takes for him to write

that scene where robbs love interest insults him and roose to his face and gives a speech on 'omg why cant you all just get along' which only makes him fall in love with her is when I knew it was going to get worse

the show is designed to make your average idiot automaton feel intelligent

>slightly better version of Spartacus

Except the writing was fucking glorious in Spartacus you turbopleb

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>midway through season 2
heh

no, I just think recent seasons are mediocre in terms of suspension of disbelief and trope subversion

>Except the writing was fucking glorious in Spartacus
I love Spartacus and I've seen the show in its entirety twice, but let's be honest here, it's not exactly quality writing. It has its moments, like the second two-thirds of S1 and most of the prequel are great, but S2 was very shoddily written as well as the majority of S3. The writers couldn't make a story not focused around the gladiator combat.
Exactly, that character was absolutely terrible. Also the acting is pretty poor at points, I mean whose decision was it to literally hire a porn star? I cringe through every Shae scene.

do I need to cite every piece of worthless trash that has airtime?
>brainlet
oh, that explains it, Mr. Napoleon Complex, I'm comparing it to popular examples of modern "cinematic taste".
stop acting like you're some philosophical genius because you watched 2001:ASO or speak in tongues about your love for film festival winners.
Fucking retard.

Nobody thinks a show like TWD is amazing, even people who watch it know it's dumb fun. People who watch Game of Thrones seem to think it's actually good, but just compare it to another popular show, Breaking Bad, and you can see that it's trash. I'm not even going to speak on Rick and Morty since that's literally a show for manchildren. Also you sound awfully mad, maybe you'd be happier if you tried watching some actually good TV.

I agree the fans are shit like any pop-thing but this show has some great fucking bits.

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