Never Watched One Episode of GOT

[Deleted member 110072]

Yea but at least they ended it correctly unlike GoT. I'm ok with a bad season but a bad ending ruins the show for good.

"correctly" is a matter of opinion I spose and many would say that both the serial killer plot and McNulty's character shift wasn't very realistic.

 

[irish_thug]

Only watched the nude scene compilations

That alone totals 2.5 episodes worth of material.

 

[PRIDEWASBETTER]

I watched the very first episode and wasn't impressed. Haven't seen an episode since.

I don't get people who refuse to watch something just to be a contrarian though. At least give it a shot. Watch the first episode, remember how great everyone thought the first few seasons were, and figure out if it's something that could potentially be cool.

Not watching at all is kind of lame.

Yeah, I remember watching the first episode on a free preview weekend thinking it was good. After that, I lost HBO and never cared to get it back.

 

[Bacco]

But the run was worth It, so you stll missed something great

 

[Medical Marijuana Man]

"correctly" is a matter of opinion I spose and many would say that both the serial killer plot and McNulty's character shift wasn't very realistic.

The series ends with out with the old, in with the new. Season 5 wasn't as good as the previous seasons but the finale is one of the best all time.

S5 was realistic and based off of stories from the Baltimore departments. Newspaper writers making up stories and police breaking the law to catch criminals. Again it's no where as good as the previous seasons but still light years better than GoT.

 

[dissectingaorticaneurysm]

This.

GOT, Breaking Bad and all others are like amateur work compared to The Wire.

I think Better Call Saul is as good as The Wire. It's already surpassed Breaking Bad for me.

 

[dissectingaorticaneurysm]

The series ends with out with the old, in with the new. Season 5 wasn't as good as the previous seasons but the finale is one of the best all time.

S5 was realistic and based off of stories from the Baltimore departments. Newspaper writers making up stories and police breaking the law to catch criminals. Again it's no where as good as the previous seasons but still light years better than GoT.

it's the weakest season but still among the best television ever made. It improves on rewatch like season 2.

 

[E Undead]

I think Better Call Saul is as good as The Wire. It's already surpassed Breaking Bad for me.

I also like BCS better than BB, but I wouldn't say it's a better show, it's just that I personally like it better.

Also many people sleep on Mr Robot. The third season was a piece of art.

 

[dissectingaorticaneurysm]

I also like BCS better than BB, but I wouldn't say it's a better show, it's just that I personally like it better.

Also many people sleep on Mr Robot. The third season was a piece of art.

The slower pace of BCS helps you appreciate the painstaking detail and subtle callbacks in every scene. It's like the complete opposite of GoT's latter seasons. Feels like every little tidbit of BB lore was considered and explored to construct these episodes. Adds so much more depth to the story.


I do like Mr. Robot too but the third season was a mess storywise. That long take episode was a masterpiece however.

 

[Loiosh]

I waited to binge the show 2 months before season 8 came out. Glad to I waited because had I been one of the people that invested years into the show and had that rushed half assed ending, I'd be pissed. Breaking Bad still the GOAT TV show for not losing momentum (actually gained it) and ending strong.

Game of Thrones is ten times as good as Breaking Bad.

Even as disappointing as it was, the final episode of Game of Thrones is superior to the final episode of Breaking Bad.

If Breaking Bad fans were as demanding as Game of Thrones fans, how do you think they would have reacted to that remote controlled machine gun ending?

 

[Fluffernutter]

GOT is just like The Wire.

"Dude! YOU have to see the Wire. If you haven't seen it yet, you are a f*cking loser. Now go watch it."

Um, now I really don't want to watch it.

 

[pookiyama]

Iron Chef Japan is the best show ever, hands down.

It also had fake, WWE style drama lines, similar to a soap opera. A soap Opera, but with fierce cooking. GOT and The Wire, and BB are all basically soaps with action on the side.

I about lost my shit that time Fancy Shang Tsung bit his bell pepper and revealed the secret ingredient as live octopus, only to completely lose my shit when Iron Chef Kenichi grabbed a live octopus out of a fucking water tank, sprinted across the arena and shoved it face first into a blender.

FWIW, the Octopus Ice Cream he made was so good the judge wept tears of joy.

 

[tehJameson]

Seasons 1-4 : Some of the best entertainment that's ever been made. 10/10.

Seasons 5-6 : Great/Excellent. A few flaws, but not worth overanalyzing. Still 9.0-9.5.

Season 7&8 : Fanfiction with an amazing CGI budget. Some good, and perhaps great, parts but it unquestionably has all the worst parts of the show. WTF/10.

Pretty much this.

 

[cottagecheesefan]

I about lost my shit that time Fancy Shang Tsung bit his bell pepper and revealed the secret ingredient as live octopus, only to completely lose my shit when Iron Chef Kenichi grabbed a live octopus out of a fucking water tank, sprinted across the arena and shoved it face first into a blender.

FWIW, the Octopus Ice Cream he made was so good the judge wept tears of joy.

Talk about a character arc that emphasizes matrydom (for the octopus). And people talk about Theon in GOT. Amateurs.

Iron Chef Morimoto had a whole "faction" of traditional Japanese chefs that wanted him GONE. Since he emphasized fusion. That is some drama right meow

 

[GearSolidMetal]

Game of Thrones is ten times as good as Breaking Bad.

Even as disappointing as it was, the final episode of Game of Thrones is superior to the final episode of Breaking Bad.

If Breaking Bad fans were as demanding as Game of Thrones fans, how do you think they would have reacted to that remote controlled machine gun ending?

The only place I've heard complaints about the remote controlled machine gun, is right here on Sherdog.

Breaking Bad has never been strict on ultra-realism, even in the 1st season. Hydrochloric Acid doesn't eat through flesh and bathtubs like it does in Alien, or even remotely close to as it does in the show.

And remember that scene when Walt goes to see Tuco and throws the 'not meth' on the ground, causes a large 'explosion' that blew out the building's windows and no one was injured? Bullshit. There's no powder that can blow up upon hard impact of a surface, and even if it could the 'explosion' would have resulted in fatalities of everyone in the room - especially Walt.

In other words, scientific/contraption realism is about as important in Breaking Bad as how dragon fire causes everything to explode in Game of Thrones.

 

[justblaze717]

Why don't people like S7 of G.O.T?

 

[Loiosh]

The only place I've heard complaints about the remote controlled machine gun, is right here on Sherdog.

Breaking Bad has never been strict on ultra-realism, even in the 1st season. Hydrochloric Acid doesn't eat through flesh and bathtubs like it does in Alien, or even remotely close to as it does in the show.

And remember that scene when Walt goes to see Tuco and throws the 'not meth' on the ground, causes a large 'explosion' that blew out the building's windows and no one was injured? Bullshit. There's no powder that can blow up upon hard impact of a surface, and even if it could the 'explosion' would have resulted in fatalities of everyone in the room - especially Walt.

In other words, scientific/contraption realism is about as important in Breaking Bad as how dragon fire causes everything to explode in Game of Thrones.

I loved Breaking Bad in the beginning, until it became became insanely popular and they went completely crazy.

People give D&D a hard time despite the magnificent job they did. Breaking Bad was never even remotely on the level of Game of Thrones, and the writing was FAR more flawed. People didn't care because the show aimed to please and almost collapsed under the weight of fan service.

 

[GearSolidMetal]

I loved Breaking Bad in the beginning, until it became became insanely popular

and they went completely crazy.

It never was sane.

In your view, what event in the show did it go 'completely crazy' from then onwards?

People give D&D a hard time despite the magnificent job they did. Breaking Bad was never even remotely on the level of Game of Thrones, and the writing was FAR more flawed. People didn't care because the show aimed to please and almost collapsed under the weight of fan service.

GoT collapsed because D&D ran out of books to adapt, and their writing (which they probably believed to be as good as GRRM's) sucked in comparison.

Actually, saying is sucked compared to GRRM's writing, is a compliment.

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

Fantasy's not my thing. Nudity is, though, so that's basically all I've paid attention to.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

The series ends with out with the old, in with the new. Season 5 wasn't as good as the previous seasons but the finale is one of the best all time.

S5 was realistic and based off of stories from the Baltimore departments. Newspaper writers making up stories and police breaking the law to catch criminals. Again it's no where as good as the previous seasons but still light years better than GoT.

I'd say it pushes these areas a bit too far into fantasy though and the Newspaper plot to me was always a bit too simplistic relative to what had been covered previously, maybe because it was a bit too close to home for Simon?

The nature of the show did I think mean shifting tone was rather more difficult for it than with GOT, something aiming for gritty realism vs pulpy fantasy.

Honestly I think a big issue behind a lot of the reaction to GOT after the 4th season as well, it became too popular to get an ego boost from liking.