re: I'm a weak man, I caved and re-watched Game of Thrones. Where it went off the rails...

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That's because it's not really that bad overall

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It's not. The ending made me dislike it more than I ever would have imagined. I mean you could have stopped the show 20 minutes before it ended, before Tyrion came out and gave his ridiculous Bran the Broken speech, and I still would have been ok with it actually. I still would have hated how things ended in Kings Landing/Jon/Dany, but nothing compared to the hate I have for Bran being named King and the way he was named. Tyrion was just as responsible for Dany's death as Jon, yet he gets to be hand of the king in the end and Jon gets banished

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I've said before that I think the hate toward GoT will cool the further out from the ending we get

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The Game of Thrones episode threads in real time were something else. There was so much hatred for the show in there that it made you hate it more at the time.

Even though the show was in decline I remember watching "The Bells" the night it came out and when Dany was sitting there on Drogon on the city walls and she was staring at the Red Keep and the bells starting ringing. My heart was actually racing. Like ok, here's the moment we find out how the coin flipped with Dany, good or bad. Those were some of the most tense few moments of TV I've ever watched. I remember how disappointed I was when she started setting Kings Landing on fire.

Not sure there will ever be another TV phenomenon like GoT was.