Megalosaro
Banned
I'll admit. I'm a hipster. I did not watch this show because everyone was raving about it. I was curious about it when Sean Bean was announced as starring in it. But when I told my sister who his character was, she responded with "hur hur don't expect him to be on long hur dur". So that was that.
This year, my DND group held an intervention where they said they know I would like this show. Fantasy politics are my wheelhouse. Convinced, I decided to check it out with my dad. I only visit him (and my mom) once a week and for a while we watched only 1 episode a week. Eventually he broke our pact and watched it all. That said, I still watch it only with him. Apparently he's seen like every episode like 4 times or some stupid shit.
Anyway, this isn't a perfect show by any means, but it IS a very good show. I still have season 5 and 6 to go before I'm caught up, but I guess I'll start off with Season Rankings
Best:
3
4
1
2
Worst
Character Rankings
Tywin Lannister
The Hound
Jaime Lannister
Jorah Mormont
Olenna Tyrell
Season 3 and Season 4 are very close together for me, but I give slight edge to 3. I'll be honest, I didn't give a shit about Rob Stark or his mom. A lot of their problems they brought on themselves, particuraly Cat. Still, the Red Wedding was amazingly choreographed. The look on Cat Stark's face when The Rains of Castamere started to play and she realized she had been caught in a trap. The exchange between her and Roose Bolton. Amazingly shot. The actual massacre was pretty terrifying but the build up right before the slaughter was amazing.
Also in Season 3 you have the beginning of the amazing adventures of Arya and The Mother Fucking HOUND, Brienne and Jaime being ballars. Tywin sucking the souls out of all of his family members was pretty great too. Just some really great stuff.
Season 4 had great moments too though. Joffrey's wedding was fantastic too. The fallout was pretty well done. It fucking sucks that two of my favorite characters were killed though.
Season 1 was solid. It certainly ramped up at the end.
Season 2 kind of sucked though. I mean, there was still good stuff there like Blackwater Bay, Arya and Tywin was great (it was in season 2 that Tywin became my favorite), Tyrion smacking around Joffrey was good. But I didn't really give a shit about Rob and I still don't give a shit about Stanis and the Red Lady (though Davos is pretty cool).
The best part of this show are the Lannisters, clear and simple. If there is a Lannister on screen, the scene is automatically 10x better. Because of this, the game being played with the Tyrells is elevated. I actually didn't care for Margery at first. But in season 3 she became fantastic character. Her working of Joffrey was amazing to watch. Fucking Olenna Tyrell though. Feisty old lady. Her on screen presense is amazing. I was telling my dad about how her actress was on an old show called The Avengers. He said he loved that show. His first celebrity crush was Diana Rigg. Said he "got his first boner" watching that show. When I told him that was the same actress, he lost his shit and got pumped.
I'm glad the Stark side is dying down. The only Stark I really give a hsit about is Arya, though I do feel bad for Sansa. Sure she was prissy in season 1, but she doesn't deserve what has happened to her. I get the feeling she's about to come into her own. Sansa did have one of my favorite moments in Season 2 though, when after being between in Court, she walked out saying "I love my king" to Tyrion. The dignity and elegance displayed by the actress was fantastic. Regarding Bran... looks like his story is finally going somewhere cool. After he left the wildling girl who's name I can't remember, it kind of became.
The Wall Stuff... There is serious potential there, but so far it hasn't caught my attention. Jon Snow is a charisma blackhole. The Battle of the Wall was pretty cool, but I didn't buy that there was a 100,000 wildlings attacking. Maybe 1000...if that. The giants were pretty cool. Not too hopeful though, especially with Stannis there now.
Dany... well, sometimes she's cool, sometimes now. Season 1, she had one of the better arcs. Season 2 though. God damn was that painful to watch. Season 3 and 4 though were pretty awesome. She has some great characters to interact with. Jorah is emotional. Barriston is pretty cool. Translator girl and greyworm are pretty cool. Not sure how much I care about mercenary dude yet. Dragons are pretty cool, though I'm not sure how successful Dany will be with them. Dragons are made for conquering, not being a benevolent slave freer.
But yeah, some great stuff.
Oberyn vs the piece of shit Mountain is one of the most horrifying things I've ever seen. Last night I was watching a trailer for some shitty Great Wall movie and the dude is in it. All I could picture in my head was the dude's head exploding. It was even worse than the Walking Dead spoilers for this season
This year, my DND group held an intervention where they said they know I would like this show. Fantasy politics are my wheelhouse. Convinced, I decided to check it out with my dad. I only visit him (and my mom) once a week and for a while we watched only 1 episode a week. Eventually he broke our pact and watched it all. That said, I still watch it only with him. Apparently he's seen like every episode like 4 times or some stupid shit.
Anyway, this isn't a perfect show by any means, but it IS a very good show. I still have season 5 and 6 to go before I'm caught up, but I guess I'll start off with Season Rankings
Best:
3
4
1
2
Worst
Character Rankings
Tywin Lannister
The Hound
Jaime Lannister
Jorah Mormont
Olenna Tyrell
Season 3 and Season 4 are very close together for me, but I give slight edge to 3. I'll be honest, I didn't give a shit about Rob Stark or his mom. A lot of their problems they brought on themselves, particuraly Cat. Still, the Red Wedding was amazingly choreographed. The look on Cat Stark's face when The Rains of Castamere started to play and she realized she had been caught in a trap. The exchange between her and Roose Bolton. Amazingly shot. The actual massacre was pretty terrifying but the build up right before the slaughter was amazing.
Also in Season 3 you have the beginning of the amazing adventures of Arya and The Mother Fucking HOUND, Brienne and Jaime being ballars. Tywin sucking the souls out of all of his family members was pretty great too. Just some really great stuff.
Season 4 had great moments too though. Joffrey's wedding was fantastic too. The fallout was pretty well done. It fucking sucks that two of my favorite characters were killed though.
Season 1 was solid. It certainly ramped up at the end.
Season 2 kind of sucked though. I mean, there was still good stuff there like Blackwater Bay, Arya and Tywin was great (it was in season 2 that Tywin became my favorite), Tyrion smacking around Joffrey was good. But I didn't really give a shit about Rob and I still don't give a shit about Stanis and the Red Lady (though Davos is pretty cool).
The best part of this show are the Lannisters, clear and simple. If there is a Lannister on screen, the scene is automatically 10x better. Because of this, the game being played with the Tyrells is elevated. I actually didn't care for Margery at first. But in season 3 she became fantastic character. Her working of Joffrey was amazing to watch. Fucking Olenna Tyrell though. Feisty old lady. Her on screen presense is amazing. I was telling my dad about how her actress was on an old show called The Avengers. He said he loved that show. His first celebrity crush was Diana Rigg. Said he "got his first boner" watching that show. When I told him that was the same actress, he lost his shit and got pumped.
I'm glad the Stark side is dying down. The only Stark I really give a hsit about is Arya, though I do feel bad for Sansa. Sure she was prissy in season 1, but she doesn't deserve what has happened to her. I get the feeling she's about to come into her own. Sansa did have one of my favorite moments in Season 2 though, when after being between in Court, she walked out saying "I love my king" to Tyrion. The dignity and elegance displayed by the actress was fantastic. Regarding Bran... looks like his story is finally going somewhere cool. After he left the wildling girl who's name I can't remember, it kind of became.
The Wall Stuff... There is serious potential there, but so far it hasn't caught my attention. Jon Snow is a charisma blackhole. The Battle of the Wall was pretty cool, but I didn't buy that there was a 100,000 wildlings attacking. Maybe 1000...if that. The giants were pretty cool. Not too hopeful though, especially with Stannis there now.
Dany... well, sometimes she's cool, sometimes now. Season 1, she had one of the better arcs. Season 2 though. God damn was that painful to watch. Season 3 and 4 though were pretty awesome. She has some great characters to interact with. Jorah is emotional. Barriston is pretty cool. Translator girl and greyworm are pretty cool. Not sure how much I care about mercenary dude yet. Dragons are pretty cool, though I'm not sure how successful Dany will be with them. Dragons are made for conquering, not being a benevolent slave freer.
But yeah, some great stuff.
Oberyn vs the piece of shit Mountain is one of the most horrifying things I've ever seen. Last night I was watching a trailer for some shitty Great Wall movie and the dude is in it. All I could picture in my head was the dude's head exploding. It was even worse than the Walking Dead spoilers for this season
