re: Just Finished Binging All 8 Seasons of Game of Thrones

Season 6 was a natural culmination of previous events that GRRM tried to get to but couldn't because the plot got away from him and he couldn't stop himself from introducing pointless characters like fake Aegon who seems to only exist because GRRM was buttmad that everyone guessed his super secret Jon related plot point in book 1.

Everything after s6 derailed HARD though and is what people mean when they say diverged from GRRMs work. And you can tell because suddenly characters no longer behaved like they had for the previous seasons and the seams started cracking because they were hell bent on rushing to the conclusion.


I still maintain that GoT up to Jon retaking Winterfell and Dany setting sail to reclaim her birthright and Cersei going mad queen and blowing up the Pope and all of her enemies and her last son committing suicide because of it is easily some of the best TV there is, and if you just watch it to there you will be content and satisfied.


It's what I did. Skipped 7 and 8 because I felt the story was satisfying and they wouldn't be able to top it. Only Watched 7 and 8 at my wife's insistence because she just had to know what happened next ... and to this day wish I didn't