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• rljkeimig@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You could watch it if you stop before the end, maybe through season 6, definitely before 8.

  I still recommend the books though, which are still good despite the fact that we will never see the end written by the original author.

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The last book was pretty bad, didn’t include any of the main characters. Such a shame, it started so well.

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    • rljkeimig@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      So you mean A Dance With Dragons? I’d recommend doing the last two books mixed together so you get A Feast For Crows at the same time. Here is a link to one reading order by chapter: …tumblr.com/…/a-new-readerfriendly-combined-readi…

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      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        That’s interesting .

        I had heard that it was twice as long, then they discovered some paradox or plot hole, so he yanked out half the book for re-writes, and published the rest. Still waiting on those re-writes.

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  • Trex202@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Isn’t that a truer reflection of a true to life story? There are no “endings”, life goes on

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    • Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Well, in that case, if “life goes on”, then new books should keep coming and coming…

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• phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Back when it first aired it was amazing, people went wild for it, and with reason: it’s really that good. For the first 5 seasons. Season 6&7 become mixed bags because the writers tan out of original source materials and they sucked at writing themselves, and at season 8 theyr recieved a mouthwatering contract for star wars and just wanted to get rid of GoT, even though HBO wanted multiple seasons more.

  So, they just write and produces a 6 episode piece of shit that was scandalously bad. Production was bad, writing was just amazingly bad.

  Watch the first seven seasons, they’re worth it!

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  • untorquer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    at season 8 theyr recieved a mouthwatering contract for star wars and just wanted to get rid of GoT,

    If they worked on a star wars movie I’m not convinced season 8 suffered from them “rushing it” or putting anything less than every last drop of their souls into the writing.

    The rest of the comment is dead on.

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    • curbstickle@anarchist.nexus ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If they worked on a star wars movie

      They did not.

      S8 was such a complete pile of shit that they lost the deal.

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      • untorquer@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I guess yeah the only reason i felt like season 8 was a better production than Disney star wars was because of the previous 6-7 seasons building such a firm foundation. That’s a beautiful insult to them that their writing was seen as worse than the gold standard of slop at the time.

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• Isthisreddit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s absolutely worth watching - still the best TV I ever watched. The problem is that the book Author is an absolutely amazing writer, and the show runners were not good writers, so when the show surpassed the books, it was obvious (this is essentially the last two seasons). The show runners also rushed the ending because they were told Disney had a Star wars trilogy waiting for them. GoT easily could have been another 3 seasons to have a proper ending

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• dogs0n@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Watch it all, it’s still a fantastic watch in my humble opinion.

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