Another one that slipped by me

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

Game of Thrones! I'm told it's quite the epic series?

 

[Moliphino]

It starts off good, but goes steadily downhill. The last season was terrible.

 

[OneOftheB's]

The first 4 seasons were great, the next couple were ok and the last 2 were dreadful.

 

[Nabas]

Game of Thrones was groundbreaking for the number of major characters who were killed off, sometimes at shocking times and in shocking ways.

The last season was too predictable.

 

[nw6675]

Agree with pps. I felt like after all that time it was a waste of mine.

 

[Disneylover99]

I loved the last few seasons.

 

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

Sounds like Sherlock. The first few series were amazing, the latter ones awful.

 

[MrsPete]

Read the books -- fantastic series, and the books do not go downhill as they progress. The books include more characters, more background, and every single word is woven together perfectly. George RR Martin is a genius.

 

[barkley]

only series dh and i didn't fast forward through the opening credits on (had to see what that map was going to show). i agree with others-started out great but failed miserably the last couple of seasons.

 

[Ms.Minnie]

I really enjoyed this series, but I guess sometimes due to time constraints and budget constraints things get wrapped up without the detail the subject deserves.

Read the books -- fantastic series, and the books do not go downhill as they progress. The books include more characters, more background, and every single word is woven together perfectly. George RR Martin is a genius.

The books are always better. They can go into so much more detail, and you get to paint your own pictures.

 

[ronandannette]

I’ll go against the grain and say I didn’t hate the ending - at least since it was never written in the book series, it did come as a surprise.

Read the books -- fantastic series, and the books do not go downhill as they progress. The books include more characters, more background, and every single word is woven together perfectly. George RR Martin is a genius.

Yes, but if the genius just could have gathered himself enough to have actually finished the epic at any point over the last 10 years, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.

 

[mrodgers]

Sounds like Sherlock. The first few series were amazing, the latter ones awful.

Sounds like just about everything. Walking Dead. Lost. Most series these days go on way too long and turn into just riding the cash cow until it fizzles out. Even way back in my younger days with the 80's and 90's sitcoms, they all fizzled out way before they canceled the shows. Back then it was mainly the family of the sitcom growing older, kids no longer kids and such that made them worse. Now with shows such as this, they continue too long after clearly they are out of ideas.

 

[sam_gordon]

I watched the first season, couldn't really get into it. Didn't bother with any other seasons.

 

[luvnwdwgal]

Have never watched a single episode either.

 

[Karin1984]

I watched season 1, did 2-4 on twice the speed and skipping some dragging parts.

I stopped when I saw Carice van Houten give birth to a puff of smoke. And the torture scene with the rat in the bucket. The first was too ridiculous, the second too gruesome.

 

[MrsPete]

only series dh and i didn't fast forward through the opening credits on (had to see what that map was going to show). i agree with others-started out great but failed miserably the last couple of seasons.

Oh, I did love that map!

I really enjoyed this series, but I guess sometimes due to time constraints and budget constraints things get wrapped up without the detail the subject deserves.

The books are always better. They can go into so much more detail, and you get to paint your own pictures.

So true -- the book is always better.

I watched the first season, couldn't really get into it. Didn't bother with any other seasons.

I'm guessing you watched /didn't read? Honestly, if I hadn't read the book, I'd have been lost with the TV series.



FYI: If you were into Game of Thrones, here are two others you might enjoy -- two that don't really get a lot of chatter:

- TV series Black Sails (it's about pirates). I think it was originally on Starz, but it's been "done" for a few years -- you could get used DVDs from ebay by now. The beginning leans on Treasure Island, but content and characters are added -- some of them from real life. The show's intro is not unlike Game of Throne's map (loved it), and the series ending is perfection. Like, seriously, budding authors should watch this to see how you wrap up a story -- it's happy, sad and believable; and it ties up the main characters' story lines so well.

- Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. Like George RR Martin, Rothfuss is a literary genius, and every word he writes is pure magic -- I mean, he's on JRR Tolkien's level. Poetry. The world Rothfuss builds is incredible, and his characters tragically realistic, and you can't be sure whether the narrator is reliable or not. Thing is, our boy hasn't written the last of the three novels, and I've been waiting a decade. Maybe you shouldn't start this series; it's too late for me, but you can save yourself.