Game Of Thrones (for newbies

[WillBrink]

I have only recently started watching GOT. Never saw an episode until a few weeks ago. Just finished watching season 2. One reason I never watched it was due to being burned by HBO on not just one, but two shows they got me hooked on (Deadwood and Carnival) then just stopped making. That really pissed me off, so I vowed to not get hooked into some series until it existed a while to avoid that. I broke that rule with West World, but that's another topic. Back to GOT: Is it all that and a bag of chips? So far, yes, I can say it's utterly engrossing stuff. It's not as well made as say Deadwood or Rome was, but it's got everything you expect from a good HBO series, and I'll be interested to see how they were able to stretch it for so many seasons. If you have not seen GOT (maybe I'm the only one on the planet?) I can recommend it for sure, at least as far as the 20 shows I have viewed to date. So far A-

[Jellybean]

As a long-time GOT fan, I can honestly say the first 2 seasons were the best.
I feel like some people are perhaps a little *too* picky, but personally I think they're all just fine. There's one or two seasons that are a little slow, but the overall story and characters are still interesting enough to carry it.
I would counter the rating and say the first 2-4 seasons were A+ material, with a couple later on perhaps dropping into B+ territory.
I could come up with a couple other minor gripes with certain characters and show direction, but none of them are so bad they'll make you care enough to stop watching.

[LowSpeed_HighDrag]

GOT is awesome, season 3 is great, 4 is fun, 5 is awful and boring, then it gets fun again. We are rewatching it right now, and are midway through season 5 again. This show is life.

[SteyrAUG]

I have only recently started watching GOT. Never saw an episode until a few weeks ago. Just finished watching season 2. One reason I never watched it was due to being burned by HBO on not just one, but two shows they got me hooked on (Deadwood and Carnival) then just stopped making. That really pissed me off, so I vowed to not get hooked into some series until it existed a while to avoid that. I broke that rule with West World, but that's another topic. Back to GOT: Is it all that and a bag of chips? So far, yes, I can say it's utterly engrossing stuff. It's not as well made as say Deadwood or Rome was, but it's got everything you expect from a good HBO series, and I'll be interested to see how they were able to stretch it for so many seasons. If you have not seen GOT (maybe I'm the only one on the planet?) I can recommend it for sure, at least as far as the 20 shows I have viewed to date. So far A-

I hear ya. Loved Rome and wish they had the money to develop a few more series, but they actually wrapped it up nicely, much better than how they ended the Sopranos. Liked Deadwood but not sure it was as good as Rome or anything else, especially since they seemed to end it with one less than satisfying episode.

But Game of Thrones really is there. I usually don't give a crap about the Dragons and Knights stuff, the only one I ever really liked was Excalibur (1981). Couldn't even get into Camelot even with Eva Green playing the perfect Morgana, everything else was weak especially Merlin.

But Game of Thrones delivers, it's got parts that are annoying. Bran the seer kind of irritates me. And like Band of Brothers it takes several viewings to remember who the hell everyone is so you can actually give a damn about their characters, but Daenerys somehow makes it all worth it.

[WillBrink]

I hear ya. Loved Rome and wish they had the money to develop a few more series, but they actually wrapped it up nicely, much better than how they ended the Sopranos. Liked Deadwood but not sure it was as good as Rome or anything else, especially since they seemed to end it with one less than satisfying episode.

But Game of Thrones really is there. I usually don't give a crap about the Dragons and Knights stuff, the only one I ever really liked was Excalibur (1981). Couldn't even get into Camelot even with Eva Green playing the perfect Morgana, everything else was weak especially Merlin.

But Game of Thrones delivers, it's got parts that are annoying. Bran the seer kind of irritates me. And like Band of Brothers it takes several viewings to remember who the hell everyone is so you can actually give a damn about their characters, but Daenerys somehow makes it all worth it.

They ended it in the height of its popularity, left on a cliff hanger for the next season, got into a pissing match with the actors over $, and simply canceled it as an "F U" to them apparently. Leaving a whole lot of pissed off people, including me. I thought Carnival was fantastic and highly recommended, but they did the same thing: left viewers on a big cliff hanger for the next season and then cancelled it, so I can't recommend it unless you don't mind being left hanging like Deadwood.

I never got into the Sopranos. I actually knew guys like them growing up in Brooklyn in the 70s, and to me, seen one Mobster movie or Sopranos, kinda seen them all. Seen Godfather 1 and II 100 times and Goodfellas a bunch of times, and that pretty much covers my Mob interests. the handful of Sopranos I saw I enjoyed, but did not lock me in enough to follow it years and years.

[Circle_10]

GOT started developing some real problems here and there in season 5, more so in season 6 and really started going full retard in season 7. As a big fan this fact pains me.
I'm not generally a medieval fantasy story fan but I liked the show so much that I started reading the books after watching the first two seasons and eventually read all the currently published books in the series.
It's no coincidence in my opinion that the issues started to crop up as the show began to outrun the available book material.

[HMM]

Rome was awesome, I really enjoyed it but I like reading stuff on that time period. I enjoyed GOT more earlier on but now I'm just in it for the ending.

[militarymoron]

If you have not seen GOT (maybe I'm the only one on the planet?)

I have not watched a single episode of GOT. I do have co-workers who are totally into it, though. Once a show has gone past a couple of seasons, it's really difficult for me to make the time to binge-watch (although I do like binge watching). After the last couple of seasons of The Walking Dead, I felt like I wasted my time following it.
I do see Jason Momoa (Khal Drogo) at the rock climbing gym though with his two kids. I've seen him in other films and he's one actor that looks just like you'd expect him to from the characters he plays. Some actors are shorter in real life than you'd expect, but he really is a big guy with a booming voice.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

GOT is good, but the last season seemed to so rushed to get things in place for the next season to get things so it can all be wrapped up in time. I'm hooked now and the wife in engaged on it, so we are locked in for the rest of the run.

[Alex V]

Best show on TV. Period.