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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.