preppytarg t1_j9zywod wrote on February 25, 2023 at 8:30 PM

Season 6 finale would be a good place to stop, and just imagine your own resolution from there, if that's what you wanted. I don't believe in slogging though if you're beginning to hate it.

Initial_Childhood619 t1_ja0r8gx wrote on February 25, 2023 at 11:53 PM

Pretty, pretty much. There is a reunion episode in season 7 that is nice for a bit, but meh.

GarlVinland4Astrea t1_ja4a9dv wrote on February 26, 2023 at 7:06 PM

Honestly it's only a good place to stop because it ends on a high note.

But I think people forget, it's basically all set up for things people have been excited about. You aren't going to watch the season 6 finale and want to stop because it teases

>!Jon Snow as King of the North!<
>!The reveal that Jon is actually the son of Lyanna and Rheagar and has an Iron Throne Claim and the consequences of that!<
>!Dany finally coming to Westeros to start a conquest!<
>!Cersei ascending to the Iron Throne to be positioned as the the final obstacle for it. !<

So it has it's own pros and cons. Imo the OP is spot on. People remember season 6 as good because they remember the last two episodes and forget that the rest of it was mediocre season 5 quality. And even then one of the episodes is basically set up for the disappointing next two seasons.

I think people just can't accept that GoT was pretty poor for like half it's run and a lot of the final season issues were a result of mistakes made years before. People just thought the payoff would correct it or something

DarkSkiesGreyWaters t1_ja5mygv wrote on February 27, 2023 at 12:42 AM

>I think people just can't accept that GoT was pretty poor for like half it's run and a lot of the final season issues were a result of mistakes made years before. People just thought the payoff would correct it or something

I think there's a lot of truth to that. As a fan of the books, I found even a lot of the choices they were making in S4 (such as cutting the Tysha reveal out) gave me pause about the direction of things. But yeah, S5 was really mediocre and contained some screamingly poor and lazy writing Season 6 was also really dull and draggy for much of its runtime. S7 is just lol. The idea that things just went south in S7/8 has always been odd to me.

Scungilli-Man69 t1_ja2l49y wrote on February 26, 2023 at 10:55 AM

Yeah, the downward decline is slow and spiralling after season 4, and then completely nosedives after season 6. It's a good jumping off place.