ONTD Original: TV-show with Most Wasted Potential [A lot of Wrong Things Round Up]

[therearewords]

Comments

[spoil]

Part of me truly believes Game of Thrones as a whole isn't worth watching/recommending to new viewers because all of the scenarios and ideas you think will happen or are happening are more throughout and unique/interesting than the piece of sludge you end up with. It's so disappointing. I've never been more let down by a show in my life lol

[ahkna]

It just becomes more and more obvious that amazing production values and decent actors can convince people something is legitimately good.

[botica]

It has zero re-watch value. That alone prob cost HBO millions. They really screwed themselves taking on D&D and their sloppy, shitty style of running a show

[simplychristina]

One thing is they did an okay job working with already published written material. Not always great , and some very bad decisions but around season 5 the mix of 'ran out of books to work with' and 'we give up made some VERY VERY terrible things glaring out in front.

Sometimes they had partial published material (Dorne, for example) and had zero idea where it was going so they just basically trashed the whole thing and made characters act in incomprehensible ways, eliminated characters from the books central to the Dorne plot and just brutalized them (mostly POC actors and characters too) and killed them off to say they paid any attention to Dorne.

After that, they just did not give a shit about most character development, logical plotting, or anything but checking off boxes on a list. And it showed.

Sometimes, parts sparked through, but overall it felt more about spectacle and less about people and that's where you lose it.

[theactualworst]

Not only will I never rewatch it, I’ll never recommend it to anyone else. I’ll tell them to watch The Last Kingdom instead.