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I finally started GOT when season 7 started. I got to season 5 when season 8 ended. I didn't finish watching the show after that.
Have you given House of the Dragon a chance?
Nobody should. Fuck that.
I thought it was good, and the book it is based on is actually complete unlike A Song of Ice and Fire. And the book is good too, so I think it's worth getting into.
You seem pleasant.
I wonder what other shows people stopped watching because they heard it had a bad ending.
Does source material count? I watched Attack on Titan and loved it and when I found out the final season was not the final season I read the Manga. Was disappointed by the last arc and haven't picked the anime back up, but at the same time was glad I got through it quick as opposed having the conclusion dragged out over years and then being disappointed like I was with Game of Thrones after a two year long wait. Which wouldn't have been as disappointing if the wait wasn't so long, and not a week by week slow delivery of disappointment over it being released all in one day for people to get over quickly.
It played a determining factor of whether I would watch House of the Dragon or not. Had the book not been complete I would not have watched the show not wanting to go through another multi year investment into stories and characters with a one to three year long time gap between season ending in disappointment.
My colleague at work told me to stick it out through the first season. Neither of us were really into fantasy, so it was kind of odd at first. But man, it was worth it. Seasons 7 and 8 were a bit rushed, which really fucked with the cadence of the timeline. Seasons 1-6 are still my favorite show ever. May be a bit of a hot take, considering the books are so awesome, or not idk.
Interesting ... I'm in a kinda similar boat with GOT. I watched S1-S2, roughly when it came out ... and didn't like it that much. I could see the appeal, but it generally felt like the whole thing was drawn out for the sake of making a long fantasy series without that much character growth or compelling plot lines.
I looked up a summary of plot points from the books that follow and it didn't really change my mind.
Fast forward to season 6, and I end up at friends house watching episodes together. I haven't seen any of it since S2, but figure I'll watch with them. I watch a couple of episodes, and start asking questions generally about how it really wasn't hard to catch up from S2 ... like, it didn't seem much had really changed apart from the Red wedding ... over 3-4 seasons.
And however valid a critique that is ... what was interesting was that many of the fans I was asking this of got really awkward about the questions. They had no answer, no defence, and it seemed apparent to me that their excitement about the show was entirely about expectations for what was to come and that they were mostly ignoring how they actually weren't enjoying the show that much any more. I now know that the show is widely regarded to have gone downhill after S4, though many hadn't really acknowledged that, and that feeling was the nerve I had probably touched. Fastforward, and S8 is coming out, so I figure I'll watch it to see the end ... may as well. And we all know how good that season was.
So, after basically being part of the GoT generation, and watching a lot of it, including the beginning when it came out ... I never got into the show and always thought it was shit.