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hylialeia · 2 years

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[taking you by the shoulders] game of thrones was never good, seasons 1-4 were only well-liked because they were consistently adapting book material that sometimes felt compelling when they decided not to strip it of its context or accidentally kept the significance of its original impact and themes. the show always had a problem with shock value for the sake of itself and an ultimately shallow motive that directly opposed the books themselves, which rotted the adaption's core; any enjoyable material was a fluke resulting from the efforts of good actors and book-canon, as evidenced by the sharp decrease in quality (or "quality") when the showrunners had to choose between adapting the most thematically rich moments in the series or making a mad dash to their imagined Shocking Twist finish line

#don't lie to yourselves anymore be free #s1 had the littlefinger sex worker monologue and introduced tyrion as some lecherous pleasure focused drunk #s2 butchered the dany in qarth storyline so badly I've blocked most of it from my memory #s3 look how they massacred my girlies cat and robb and brienne #s4 what did you do to oberyn... to the tyrells... to the jaime cersei story arc #(<- credit where it's due at least the tyrion trial monologue fucked severely)#(but what's it matter if they sacrificed tyrion's whole arc and robbed us of dinklage's performance as anything but audience surrogate??)#s5-s8 is self explanatory.#anti got #asoiaf

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