Well, finally finished up the 8th and final season of Game of Thrones, it was a very long series and I’m glad it’s over with. I understand most devout fans out there were disappointed about the final episode not having a happy ending, but for me I’m satisfied where it ended up.
Stranger Things, season 3. Thought it was better than season 2.
It seems we have a space battle here
Peace love mates, I like women myself, I’m a big fan, but I’m already married so I stick with cinema
It was less a missing happy end, cause all in all it was for that series a quite optimistic ending, but that so many things became more and more so totally dumb in the last season. And actually already in the season before.
Well, there were always some dumb parts throughout the complete show, but in the last 2 seasons it began really to hurt the overall quality.
For me the ending was ok, cause I had already feared that it would be much worse, but considering the possibilities of story and characters of the first half of the series, the ending is a let-down though.
I’ve only done 2 seasons of Game of Thrones - the first when it came out, the second a few months ago … so, about 30 minutes of storyline over 20 episodes. Some people will watch anything for tits and ass … and that’s really what this is, Nerd Porn ! 
I’m near the end of season 3 now. I started watching a few years ago, but then gave up after a couple of episodes, but tried again this january, and am now watching one episode a week.
There are a few interesting characters and storylines and overall I think the whole thing is watchable, so I’ll probably continue watching it, but there are several uninteresting characters and storylines as well, and the problem is - like in most of these continuing stories (makes me all of a sudden think of Peyton Place) - that it continues so slow-slow-slowly: events that could be treated in 50 minutes are smeared out over hours that soon seem like years or ages. And there are so many characters and storylines that I often have to look up a name or a place to figure out what’s going on, and why
Like the majority of quality series GOT it starts very well with some great episodes but it ends not so well, GOT start to decay in quality, even with those continuity series based in the same caracteres and situations like All in the Family, Happy Days or MASH you eventually will get bored, even if the episodes were still good.
But in these modern TV series normally the scriptwriters start to invent a lot any new season, turning a good ideia into an endeless soap opera like in Lost
I haven’t watched tv in over a decade but the only series I remember being totally entranced by and could not wait to watch were Planet of the Apes, The incredible Hulk, and a little known, 1 season show called Nowhere Man. The only thing I will catch an episode of on YT these days is Columbo but that may be 1x a year.
Edit: I found the 1st season aka whole entire series of Nowhere Man on a playlist:
The massive sex and violence in GoT surely helps to sell the show, but is in no way the main point why it became such an enormous success.
No, I don’t think so either, but I wonder what was exactly the reason for its enormous popularity
Game of Thrones was a very fine series for the first 5 seasons or so when they were still filming the books of George R. R. Martin. Then the series ran out of books so to speak. George R. R. Martin is an extremely meticulous (or slow) writer. So instead of relying heavily on the books they got I don’t know guidelines or something, meaning that they had to fill in the dots themselves. That didn’t go to well and season 6 began to show a lot of cracks, season 7 was downright awful and season 8… Well I never finished that one. Gave up after two episodes 
If you think the series is hard to follow with all the characters by the way I suggest you do not read the books. Your brain will melt. They are very well written though and recommended.
No, I haven’t read them. The Fantasy genre is not a genre I’m very fond of and I wouldn’t have watched the series if it hadn’t been such a tremendous hype: makes one curious to see what the fuss is all about. As said I find it enjoyable enough but so fat I have not discovered why so many people were crazy about it.
At first and at most the melodramatic entanglements, the things which made films like Gone with the Wind or Doctor Zhivago so enormous successful. Which means people care for the characters, not for all, but for some, or even for many, at least enough to be interested how it goes on.
Then probably (like in Avatar) that one can discover by and by a world which is close to ours, but also very far away with dragons and magicians and princesses (who have to suffer awful humiliations before they reach salvation).
Then that many think that one can never be sure what happens next, allthough that is not really true. But even if the story telling is less surprising than many people think, it is at the same time much more open than in most popular films. but of course the real narrative surprises, and the best is indeed the “red wedding” all happen in the first half, while later things more conventional.
An other interesting aspect is that many characters change, that even several at first unsympathetic or boring characters change or even turn into quite the opposite.
The story telling is sometimes really amazing, but then also sometimes as dumb as possible. There are bold ideas, but too often the narrative is quite ridiculous under artistic aspects. And unfortunately the more idiotic parts increase towards the end.
But of course, like in most films and series, it is always easier to open with some brilliant ideas, than to find a satisfying and consequent ending.
But overall it had enough fascinating ideas to keep my interested until the end. Lost was a pretty similar case.
As a whole other shows like Mad Men or The Sopranos are superior, are more satisfying. They stumbled a bit here and there, but they found their way back, and had a satisfying ending. And were as a whole the more intelligent shows.
For me it is easy to understand why GoT made such an impact. And I also understand why so many are disappointed with the last season, even if the basic problems were there from the beginning on.
It is really more drama than fantasy though. Not very fond of the fantasy genre myself.
Yes, but the fantasy stuff increases the more the show goes on.
Ohh, and I forgot to mention, in case of the shows popularity, it got also zombies … lots of them …
And another important aspect, there are a lot of secrets. Secrets from a mythical past long ago, secrets about family descents, secrets about inhuman skills and inhuman beings etc. Lots of secrets the audience wants to get an answer for.
Agreed. The writers obviously didn’t know what made the show initially tick.
Seems it’s not moving in my kind of direction, so to speak. I don’t care much for the fantasy things (well, a little dragon every now and then is okay) and hate zombies. I usually avoid anything with zombies in it. I can see what you say about the characters, my favorites so far are Tyrio Lannister, Arya Stark (I think I have a crush on a girl who’s supposed to be 12 years old!) and John Snow. A couple of other characters don’t work at all for me, notably Joffrey. He’s a villain and supposed to be despicable, and he is, but in order to be a really good villain, such a character must also be fascinating, and this guy is just a jerk. Not sure (yet) about a couple of others. I hated Jaime Lannister initially, but he seems to redeem himself a little in the course of series 3 and I haven’t made up my mind yet about this Mother of Dragons
I finished Swamp Thing and Im just a mess and so upset that this series was canceled after the first episode was released. I think DC (or whomever) is responsible for this inane decisions really dropped the ball. This series had potential.
I’m currently watching Jericho (both seasons) and I have roughly 8 episodes remaining. I’ll likely move on to Into the West (mini-series) here in a few days. Ive not watched that show since it aired originally but it’s been on mind a lot. Spielberg’s Taken also - Which I downloaded immediately after getting Into the West.
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Welcome to the SWDB, Kevin! 
Absolutely - old Joff’ is excruciating to watch - more like an obnoxious over privileged teenager than a real supervillain. Hated him, but not for the reasons the writers intended.
There aren’t really many characters that inspire or repel in the dramatic sense - and the story just plods along, and as you’re about to drop off for a snooze, as you cease to give a damn about who’s who … Bam, there’s some full frontal nudity to give you a jolt.
Over all I think what is lacking is a central character to piece all the bits together - Tony Soprano was a bastard and a spoilt brat, albeit in adult form … but the audience cared what was happening to him for 6 seasons - But that series is still the exception rather than the rule. As HBO try to find the magic formula, whether we’re in a pirate world, a western, war scenario … it’s not bad language, graphic violence and nudity that clicks with an audience, it’s great characters and storytelling.