Is Game of Thrones one of the worst TV shows of all time?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Yes, without question. It doesn't matter if it was good at one point, since the ending rendered it entirely unwatchable, there's countless stories online about people talking about how they can't even rewatch the old seasons now because they know about how trash it'll be at the end and a great point made that almost no one was talking about it or rewatching it during the lockdowns even though they were tons of things. And like people still watch and love the original Star Wars trilogy because you can pretend the prequels and Disney trilogy don't exist, which you can't really do for the last two seasons of GoT, so it's worthless now. Even read one about a guy who said that he burned his old DVD collection of the old seasons because he couldn't stand seeing them on a shelf and they made him angry after that. It is absolutely a truly terrible, complete piece of sh!t garbage show and it should've never been made.

Like consider that two years later...there's like zero fandom remaining, even though shows that ended far older like The Sopranos and Breaking Bad still have massive fandoms who regularly talk about them, and yet there's still regularly people complaining about how much the finale sucked two years later! Even Dexter which has a similarly hated ending that happened years prior still has lots of fans and gets talked about because since each Dexter season is its own self-contained plot arc you can ignore the later bad seasons and the ending, but you can't do that with GoT.

[dead0man]

There are still people "talking about GoT", I see new videos on YouTube about it everyday.  There is a new show coming (prequel) out in a couple of months and a couple more in pre-production.

[Samof94]

Yes, without question. It doesn't matter if it was good at one point, since the ending rendered it entirely unwatchable, there's countless stories online about people talking about how they can't even rewatch the old seasons now because they know about how trash it'll be at the end and a great point made that almost no one was talking about it or rewatching it during the lockdowns even though they were tons of things. And like people still watch and love the original Star Wars trilogy because you can pretend the prequels and Disney trilogy don't exist, which you can't really do for the last two seasons of GoT, so it's worthless now. Even read one about a guy who said that he burned his old DVD collection of the old seasons because he couldn't stand seeing them on a shelf and they made him angry after that. It is absolutely a truly terrible, complete piece of sh!t garbage show and it should've never been made.

Like consider that two years later...there's like zero fandom remaining, even though shows that ended far older like The Sopranos and Breaking Bad still have massive fandoms who regularly talk about them, and yet there's still regularly people complaining about how much the finale sucked two years later! Even Dexter which has a similarly hated ending that happened years prior still has lots of fans and gets talked about because since each Dexter season is its own self-contained plot arc you can ignore the later bad seasons and the ending, but you can't do that with GoT.

Even Buffy has a fan base today. Of course, when people think of Buffy(the character), they don’t think Joss, but of Sarah Michelle Gellar(who helped define her character).

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Yes, without question. It doesn't matter if it was good at one point, since the ending rendered it entirely unwatchable, there's countless stories online about people talking about how they can't even rewatch the old seasons now because they know about how trash it'll be at the end and a great point made that almost no one was talking about it or rewatching it during the lockdowns even though they were tons of things. And like people still watch and love the original Star Wars trilogy because you can pretend the prequels and Disney trilogy don't exist, which you can't really do for the last two seasons of GoT, so it's worthless now. Even read one about a guy who said that he burned his old DVD collection of the old seasons because he couldn't stand seeing them on a shelf and they made him angry after that. It is absolutely a truly terrible, complete piece of sh!t garbage show and it should've never been made.

Like consider that two years later...there's like zero fandom remaining, even though shows that ended far older like The Sopranos and Breaking Bad still have massive fandoms who regularly talk about them, and yet there's still regularly people complaining about how much the finale sucked two years later! Even Dexter which has a similarly hated ending that happened years prior still has lots of fans and gets talked about because since each Dexter season is its own self-contained plot arc you can ignore the later bad seasons and the ending, but you can't do that with GoT.

Even Buffy has a fan base today. Of course, when people think of Buffy(the character), they don’t think Joss, but of Sarah Michelle Gellar(who helped define her character).

While it's possible Joss Whedon will have trouble making any new works especially since actors will not want to work with him, I don't think his existing works are going to be cancelled, because he was not the only one responsible for them or their quality. Much like how no one has a problem still watching Harvey Weinstein-produced movies.

[John Dule]

Get off Reddit.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Get off Reddit.

Uh find me ANY site where people are happy with the Game of Thrones ending.

[Lumine]

You can loathe the rushed ending and the storylines they botched and still think the bulk of the show was solid, very well produced, and at times even well written while straying away from the source material (particularly, but not exclusively, in Season 1). It's also far from the only hit show that was made difficult to rewatch due to the eventual ending while still being acknowledged for its importance and the degree of influence it came to have, so no, not really.

And, even if the eventual outcome didn't help the concept of a larger franchise, there's no valid reason to think House of the Dragon can't be a success or that the audience for ASOIAF-related projects is gone.

[John Dule]

Get off Reddit.

Uh find me ANY site where people are happy with the Game of Thrones ending.

Aha, my deductions were correct. Only on Reddit would some neckbeard burn hundreds of dollars worth of DVDs to make a point to internet strangers.

[Meclazine for Israel]

Season One was epic. That was a very interesting reflection on English history brought to the masses.

[Progressive Pessimist]

I never got into the show, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's bad. Though from what even its biggest fan say about the last season of the series-it's a candidate for worst season of a show ever.

[T'Chenka]

This thread is cringe. Any show that has seasons as good as Thrones' best seasons has ZERO chance of being the worst show ever. Do you realize just how bad some shows are?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

This thread is cringe. Any show that has seasons as good as Thrones' best seasons has ZERO chance of being the worst show ever. Do you realize just how bad some shows are?

Yes, I am familiar with South Park, The Real World and Dora the Explorer.

[Badger]

The last season was rushed, and the ending blew, but it was nevertheless an amazing 7 season show.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Yes, without question. It doesn't matter if it was good at one point, since the ending rendered it entirely unwatchable, there's countless stories online about people talking about how they can't even rewatch the old seasons now because they know about how trash it'll be at the end and a great point made that almost no one was talking about it or rewatching it during the lockdowns even though they were tons of things. And like people still watch and love the original Star Wars trilogy because you can pretend the prequels and Disney trilogy don't exist, which you can't really do for the last two seasons of GoT, so it's worthless now. Even read one about a guy who said that he burned his old DVD collection of the old seasons because he couldn't stand seeing them on a shelf and they made him angry after that. It is absolutely a truly terrible, complete piece of sh!t garbage show and it should've never been made.

Like consider that two years later...there's like zero fandom remaining, even though shows that ended far older like The Sopranos and Breaking Bad still have massive fandoms who regularly talk about them, and yet there's still regularly people complaining about how much the finale sucked two years later! Even Dexter which has a similarly hated ending that happened years prior still has lots of fans and gets talked about because since each Dexter season is its own self-contained plot arc you can ignore the later bad seasons and the ending, but you can't do that with GoT.

Even Buffy has a fan base today. Of course, when people think of Buffy(the character), they don’t think Joss, but of Sarah Michelle Gellar(who helped define her character).

While it's possible Joss Whedon will have trouble making any new works especially since actors will not want to work with him, I don't think his existing works are going to be cancelled, because he was not the only one responsible for them or their quality. Much like how no one has a problem still watching Harvey Weinstein-produced movies.

Buffy is also far from the oldest example of a show that has staying power despite some after-the-fact issues that arose with it. Roddenberry- and Berman-era Star Trek shows are still gaining new fans every day even though Roddenberry and Berman both treated women abysmally by current standards (and, in at least Berman's case, by 1990s standards as well). And, yeah, as with Buffy, when people think of those shows they usually think of William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Avery Brooks, Nana Visitor, etc. long before they think of the suits in charge.

[Frodo]

If you stopped the show at the end of Season 6, I could not have disagreed with you more.

After the trainwreck that was seasons 7 and 8, I can't defend the indefensible.  

[BoiseBoy]

I've never watched it and have little interest in ever starting it.

[Antonio the Sixth]

no lol, let's be real for a second. There's a LOT of crap on TV

[Alben Barkley]

Yes.

And it ALWAYS was.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

no lol, let's be real for a second. There's a LOT of crap on TV

Yes but Season 8 of Game of Thrones is like a whole new level of crap.

[Antonio the Sixth]

no lol, let's be real for a second. There's a LOT of crap on TV

Yes but Season 8 of Game of Thrones is like a whole new level of crap.

Nah, season 8 is honestly what the average writing quality for TV used to be until a couple decades ago. The reason it's so jarring here is because the show had set much higher standards.

And let's not even get started on the entire genre of ""reality"" TV, which is automatically worse than almost any fictional show.

[Big Abraham]

What about this show?

[Middle-aged Europe]

It really isn't. Even Season 7, despite its increasing flaws, still held up reasonably well. However, you won't cause much dispute by saying that they managed to blow the final season in a most spectacular fashion. One wonders if during the production of Season 8 it had dawned upon them that this is really gonna suck, but that they also had no other choice then keep on going at that point.

[Cassius]

What about this show?

This isn’t actually unfunny in its own way, although it helps being able to read the wiki article to understand what they were driving at with the comedy. I suspect that if this were made now, with the rough edges smoothed off, it wouldn’t be half as controversial as it was in 1990.

Anyway, I think Game of Thrones is certainly one of the most overrated shows of all time. First four series were good, but the quality nosedived in series 5 as they ran out of original material and resorted mainly to ‘crash, bang, wallop’ action scenes and fan service to fill the void. Of course, they didn’t even provide the fan service in series 8, thus ensuring that the show will be forever tainted in the eyes of many. I think of it as kind of being like a massive bubble that was eventually pricked, because it couldn’t live up to the enormous expectations that had been placed upon it.

[T'Chenka]

Yes.

And it ALWAYS was.

Scorching hot take. Wow.

[Samof94]

Yes, without question. It doesn't matter if it was good at one point, since the ending rendered it entirely unwatchable, there's countless stories online about people talking about how they can't even rewatch the old seasons now because they know about how trash it'll be at the end and a great point made that almost no one was talking about it or rewatching it during the lockdowns even though they were tons of things. And like people still watch and love the original Star Wars trilogy because you can pretend the prequels and Disney trilogy don't exist, which you can't really do for the last two seasons of GoT, so it's worthless now. Even read one about a guy who said that he burned his old DVD collection of the old seasons because he couldn't stand seeing them on a shelf and they made him angry after that. It is absolutely a truly terrible, complete piece of sh!t garbage show and it should've never been made.

Like consider that two years later...there's like zero fandom remaining, even though shows that ended far older like The Sopranos and Breaking Bad still have massive fandoms who regularly talk about them, and yet there's still regularly people complaining about how much the finale sucked two years later! Even Dexter which has a similarly hated ending that happened years prior still has lots of fans and gets talked about because since each Dexter season is its own self-contained plot arc you can ignore the later bad seasons and the ending, but you can't do that with GoT.

Even Buffy has a fan base today. Of course, when people think of Buffy(the character), they don’t think Joss, but of Sarah Michelle Gellar(who helped define her character).

While it's possible Joss Whedon will have trouble making any new works especially since actors will not want to work with him, I don't think his existing works are going to be cancelled, because he was not the only one responsible for them or their quality. Much like how no one has a problem still watching Harvey Weinstein-produced movies.

True. It is pretty easy to separate from its creator.