And, in truth, it has probably drained yours, too. It entirely drained my enthusiasm for the series. But there was something so monumentally dispiriting about GoT’s final season. I’ve seen Lost all the way through three times now, for crying out loud, and I would even give Dexter another go (up to a point I’m not a monster).
Listen, I know that it’s silly to write off an entire television series just because it beefed the finale. Now, all things considered, I would rather feed my legs to a dog than watch Game of Thrones again. Obviously that was before the final season. Emilia Clarke as Daenerys and Jason Momoa as Khal Drogo in season one of Game of Thrones. ‘Unless you read the books, it was impossible to keep up’. Wouldn’t it be good, I thought, to go back and watch Game of Thrones from the start and enjoy it with all the knowledge that the readers had?
By the end of it, I had transformed into Carrie from the first season of Homeland drunk and hysterical and gesturing wildly at an incomprehensible wall of string.
If you hadn’t, it was impossible to keep up.Īnd so I spent the first couple of years with only half an eye on the television, while I frantically tore through Wikipedia trying in vain to find any sort of clue about what was actually happening. If you had read the books, this was all probably very satisfying. The first two seasons, as far as I’m able to tell, are single-handedly made up of scenes where 3,000 identical-looking men with identical names growl at each other about all the different things that every single one of their of identically named ancestors did over the past 10,000 years. This isn’t because I liked it – it’s because I barely got to see any of it. Except you won’t rewatch it, will you? Even under lockdown, your life is too short.įor much of its run, I was convinced that I’d end up watching Game of Thrones all over again.
It’s long and dense, and it tells a huge story on the grandest possible canvas. Of all the shows available to watch or rewatch in quarantine, Game of Thrones seems pretty perfect.
No: ‘The final season was just a Michael Bay movie about people who don’t know how to wash’