Game of Thrones rewatch (Comparing to HotD)

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But comparing it to HotD, it is way more clunky, less elegant, etc.

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You have to keep in mind that GoT had to introduce viewers to a HUGE world and navigate introducing TONS of characters. HotD gets to stand on the groundwork and knowledge already laid out in GoT while also having a MUCH smaller worldview and cast of characters to properly give screen time to.

Not to mention the budget differences.

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be carefully for spoilers because Joffrey tells Margaery Tyrell how HotD ends

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Anyone with a brain knows that it will end when both sides make up and have a laugh at how petty they were all acting.

I also started a rewatch recently. It’s pretty evident that GOT had to walk before it could run whereas HOTD benefitted greatly from the production experiences of GOT. In a way, GOT first season just feels dated because of how it was shot and paced with all new characters; it had to come into its own as a show whereas HOTD could hit the ground damn near sprinting. HOTD knows through the experience of GOT what notes it needs to hit to remain appointment television and what NOT to do to repeat the sins of those final seasons. GOT in some cases literally had to make it up as it went along.

Too, a rewatch is a startling reminder how young the cast of GOT was in that first season compared to the group HOTD is working with. Just a different cast dynamic, production experience, and general audience knowledge between the two shows.

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how HotD ends

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There are a lot of things that happen after that.

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be carefully for spoilers because Joffrey tells Margaery Tyrell how HotD ends

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I remember this scene but I don't remember exactly what he said. hmmmm

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Tbh the writing in HoD feels much more stale as a result. The biggest draw factor in GOT, to me, was the "rawness". Felt like we were watching actual people instead of greek deities

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agree with this

I like HOTD so far but the Starks and other northerners, Baratheons, etc. > the Targaryens & Velaryons

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Anyone with a brain knows that it will end when both sides make up and have a laugh at how petty they were all acting.

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It's the finding of common ground between the Greens & Blacks that I'm looking most forward to.

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I actually think even the first season of GoT contains greater substance than most of HotD, albeit this is a rematch so I know what happens and am actively looking for things that come into play later down the road vs HotD where I don’t know much of the storyline, only how it ends thanks to Joffrey

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Outside of the dragon battle episode, there is nothing that HotD has done in two seasons that can even remotely touch anything from season 1 of Game of Thrones. Seasons 1-3 of GoT are pretty much perfect television. That's why the fall off in seasons 6-8 hurt so bad.

Even if HotD continues to get better, it won't be anything near what GoT early seasons were.

Hearing some people in this thread talk about HotD running while GoT had to walk is wild to me. I don't care if some of the sets look better in HotD, there is almost nothing story wise or character wise that HotD does better than GoT. And I like HotD, that's not a knock on it.

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that’s a George Martin problem though not a screenwriter/showrunner/actor/budget problem.

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Sure it is. They knew the project they were taking on. Game of Thrones guys obviously had much more to work with but the HotD guys knew what they were getting into and that quite a bit of it was going to have to be original content/dialogue. I'm not saying it wouldn't be a challenge but they were given the basis for a good story and they had to fill in the gaps. It's not a GRRM problem for writing a history book, he wrote what he wanted, a Targaryen history book, nobody was required to adapt that for TV. There wouldn't be a single person complaining if HotD had written one of the characters to be a Bronn type character that made you chuckle every now and then. You're not turning the show into a comedy or changing the theme of the show, you're just adding something that is missing from this series.

I could take it a step farther and say that they have made a show where you don't really care what happens to the majority of the characters. Almost two seasons in now and ANY of the characters on HoTd could die and nobody would care half as much as we did after one season of Ned Stark, and Ned wasn't even the most liked character.