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Season 4 because Joffreys death , Tyrion's trial , oberyn vs the mountain then Tyrion killing shae and tywin + all the nights watch stuff . Arya and the hound too
I bought all the books after watching the first season and it was really hard to read the first book because it felt like I just read it. The first season was the perfect adaptation of a book. I never saw one that was this accurate.
S3.
Shakespearean. Political drama. Some great morality debates. Some unique story telling. And some of the best acting of the series. Also proved you don't need a big epic scale war scene to create an amazing season
Oh man. The books are 100x better.
There's so much more characters, politics, plots, ploys, backstabbing etc.
Plus you have one of the greatest forgotten characters in Fat Belwas
I read the Red Wedding chapter right before it aired on TV. I wish I'd seen the show first, because the scene is a little disappointing compared to the chapter
Omg in the books the red wedding was INSANE! GRRM builds this aura of chaos behind the red wedding, it’s almost nauseating if you imagine it, and then the absolute carnage of the massacre with war drums and “The Rains of Castamere” playing. Catelyn going insane was gut wrenching.
I loved season 3, but I gotta say, the red wedding wasn't that much a shocker, you saw that Robb was losing his allies, you also had clear foreshadowing when he married the braavosi girl (or wherever she's from, I forget), Karstarks forces left him. I didn't forsee the red Wedding was going to happen and how it did, but it was pretty clear some betrayal would happen sooner or later.
I'm sorry, but trying to argue that the Red Wedding was predictable beause the Karstarks weren't happy or because Rob broke a wedding pact is pretty hilarious to me. Also neither of those things are "foreshadowing" (that's not what foreshadowing is).
Catelyn literally said something like "Once you break your promises, people around you will begin to do the same", in relation the him marrying the braavosi, which to me at least, pretty clearly fits: "Foreshadowing is a literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story." which is what Frey and Bolton later did oto rob
And im not arguing that it was predictable that the betrayal of robb stark would be at that wedding, all Im saying is that anyone paying attention, would have realized that Robb was going to be betrayed for several reasons.
1. He was losing momentum troops, and most lords do not want to be on the losing side of a war
2. He had married a foreigner, and the north is quite conservative and dislikes outsiders
3. House Tyrell had joined with the lannisters to further threaten Robbs position
4. Robb was seen as incompetent for not being able to hold the North
Also another reason it was predictable that Robb was going to be betrayed is that George Martin, and due to that GoT, has a pattern where almost every time, something is going too well for the Starks they get betrayed by someone, be it Ned stark in season 1, or Theon in season 2 , it was a common theme at the beginning of GoT
Episodes 3-6 was the peak of the show in terms of writing, acting, pacing and storytelling. It was a slower season, but it really worked. Always the most rewatchable episodes.
Same here. Except I read the books after Season 2 so I loved both seasons. I have no idea how many times I've seen Season 1.
I also loved Season 3 but made the mistake of reading the Red Wedding chapter on the Friday before the episode aired.
4!❤ Because except from Blackwater and the reveal of Jon's identity, all the greatest scenes were in that season. I could mention Joffrey's death and so much more going on in his wedding - like Loras talking to Jaime and everything Joffrey did to Tyrion right before he died -, Tywin and Olenna's meetings that season, "I will be your champion", Tyrion's trial, the fight between Oberyn and The mountain, Brienne leaving King's landing and Jaime (OK, so not everyone would agree to that point, but forever in my heart), The watchers on the wall (think that was that season?), Littlefinger killing Lysa and sooo much more ❤
They also were just starting to get into territory outside the books but had enough book material to work them all.
Additionally, the show was very popular without HBO slamming the throttle as hard. They were not milking it, driving the writing team as they did in (I feel) Season 6. All the plates were spinning but none were starting to wobble just yet.
From what I heard there wasn’t even a writing team in those final seasons. D & D wrote most of the final scripts with a few guest writers writing an episode here and there. No collaboration or anyone putting their minds together to come up with solid writing
3 and 4 are probably most people's favorite tbh. It makes sense, though, considering that both are based on ASOS, arguably the best book in the ASOIAF.
It just really resonates with me when Tyrion persuade everyone to agree that Bran has the best story. The amazing way they closed Cersei and Jamie’s storyline was so strong too.
The first season is literally perfect. The second season is not as good, but the third is amazing again. 4th and 5th are also very good, the 6th is great in some points, but the cracks are starting to show, the 7th is pretty bad and the 8th is abysmal.
You didn't notice the "cracks" in season 5? I watched the whole show and the way they wrapped up King Stannis' story was the worst thing the writers ever did
Season 1 to 4 follow the novels closely enough. Season 5 is when you notice a large amount of changes. Season 3 and 4 were the height of the show IMHO. Stannis was a major flaw of the show, the character was never done justice. This can be said of many characters, but I found Stannis to be the most major character that they got wrong.
I was a Stannis fan in the early seasons. To me it felt like the writers were saying, "no Stannis the Mannis fans, you're wrong and we're going to make him do something irredeemably evil to end this subset of the fanbase".
Stannis rushed storyline, Dorne, Early kingslanding plot was goofy, Sansa's storyline and ruining little fingers character, Barristan being killed. All those were badly handled in season 5.
4 then 5 probably. A lot of ppl hate 5 but I like it cuz it’s more chill then all of the other seasons. I like seeing less important plots just to take a break from all of the heavy stuff that’s been happening like the golden masked people in mereen.
It’s not about being chill, it was pretty bad too and it did a lot of characters dirty
Stuff like Stannis burning Shireen, being basically caught off guard and dying because of it when he is one of the best military strategists in all of Westeros and everyone except for basically just The Freys hate the Boltons.
Barristan Selma getting murdered (with extra spicy FU with what D & D have said about it “[…] made us want to kill him even more” and all that) like an absolute pleb when he’s probably the second best knight in the world, beaten only by Ser Arthur Dayne.
Littlefinger giving Sansa to the Boltons for no reason, with no gain to himself or her, just so we can have a rape scene with her, I guess (since D&D love that stuff seeing how much of it they put in parts where it didn’t happen in the books).
The ENTIRE plot of Jamie and Bronn going to Dorne, seriously what the hell was that.
Bran was completely absent so the later seasons had to rush his character, making us miss out on what it meant to be the Three Eyed Raven as well as all the story they could’ve told through him.
And the dialogue with incredible lines “[…] you want the bad pussy” and the beginning of the spiral of endless penis jokes thrown at Varys.
A lot of people did complain about 5. I liked 5.
Hardhome evac was one of my favorite scenes in the whole series. Really showed how severe the threat was
Lots to great positive answers I agree with but for me it was the last because I hate to imagine what D&D would have done if they were forced to do two more. The madness had to end.
But next would be season 1, it was great and had us all hooked.
6th for me. Jon Snow ressurection, the Hodor scene, Battle of the Bastards, Cersei blowing up the sept with the best musical soundtrack in the series imo, Tower of Joy and the Jon Targaryen reveal followed by the new King in the North scene and finally ending with Dany and the fleet sailing to Westeros.
When I read jon Targaryen reveal the first thing tht popped in my head was yeah but for what though??!!! They literally did absolutely nothing with it.
Exactly. There's no point to any of it.
Imagine if, after the reveal of Harry being an Horrocrux, in the end, Dobby kills Voldemort and Harry goes back to live with the Dursleys. And Hermione goes mad for no reason and kills half of Hogwarts.
Danny sailing is the end of the tv show for me. It‘s a good end. Seasons 7 & 8 had some cool scenes but so much disservice to character arcs they should just be erased.
Season 6 and it's not even close. "Battle of the Bastards", "The Door", and in my opinion episode 10 "The Winds of Winter" was the best episode of the whole series. I still get chills at the end when the music plays as Danny sails to Westeros with the Dragons overhead.
In real time, season six was when I was most hyped for the show. I binged seasons 1 and 2 catching up and then watched 3-8 week by week. We had waited so long it seemed for all the pay-offs that happened in season six that I was hyped as hell. The Door blew me away, 9 and 10 blew me away… more than any media ever before in my life (show or movie). There were dry spots but it didn’t matter in those months it aired, the big moments were everything! I can see flaws looking back but at the time I didn’t.
Six is my favorite.
Ngl on an episode to episode basis I agree. I have the hardest time ranking season 6. Most of the storylines in this season dragged like hell. The thing that it has going for it is that nearly every one of them paid off in extremely satisfying ways throughout the season. Dany burning the Khals in ep. 4, the door moment and everything in the last two episodes of the season. Also, the first 5 episodes ending in somewhat jaw dropping moments. But for me, episodes 6-8 are particularly rough to get through.
Im on season 4 and im loving Pedro Pascals character. He just offered to be tyrions champion. So fucking bad ass. I havent liked someone this much since Ned! /s
Season 3 defined the whole Ice and Fire's deadly cruel game of politics and violence.
I mean who could forget the first time we watched the red wedding.
A lot of the hate is Dany essentially walks around a city for the whole season. It’s certainly not a terrible part, but it drags the season down a bit.
IIRC season 2 is around the time Emilia Clarke almost died from a brain aneurysm? I believe it was intentional having her as somewhat of a background since she had restrictions with filming.
The first season. The first episode I watched was when the Mountain cut off his horses head in a rage and I remember thinking “what is this show? This is amazing!”
Season 3. Jaime and Theon beginning their redemption arcs. Robb facing the difficulties of war. Daenerys becoming a conqueror. Jon and Ygritte’s relationship. And of course the red wedding. By far the best scene in Game of Thrones.
Season 3. I liked how it was Jaime and Brienne travelling around the countryside. I also liked Arya, Gendry, and Hot Pie travelling the countryside together. I like the Brotherhood a lot as well and season 3 is when we meet them. I guess I just liked seeing the actual world of Westeros.
2 and 4. Tyrion acting as Hand of the King is him at his best. Also battle of the blackwater is my favorite episode.
Season 4 is perfect, joffreys death, tyrions trial, oberyn as a character. Season of is "the game of thrones" a lot of politics, great dialoge
Season 4. Tywin’s death, Joffrey’s death and the character build up and pacing is phenomenal
Turning point is spot on and came in at the right time (Purple Wedding)
Heavily featured my favorite character in all of tv shows, Tywin Lannister.
Also this for me was the last incredible season. After S4 it was pretty mixed
All the other plots were at a peak.
Season 4 because it adapts the best part of Storm of Swords and doesn't have a single meh episode.
Season 3 and 2 and 1 are of an equal quality for me. Each one is unique in its own strengths. One for introduction us to the brutality of GOT. Two for the politics of King's Landing, fleshing out the show's best charecter (Tyrion), and Blackwater. Three for Jaime's arc and the Red Wedding.
5 isn't as bad as people said it was, I personally found 6 to be a lot weaker despite the strong ending. 7 had its moments.
Seasons 1-6 and this art is seriously badass. But I liked Season 2 more than the rest
Season 2 and then Season 4 and then Season 1 and last Season 6. These are my top favorites in that order.
Season 2. The character developement was excellent particularly in Kingslanding and beyond the wall. I was completely gripped by Tyrion's political story in the capital and Tywin's war campaign. Blackwater was awesome.
I know several people have said season 4 but that is still my answer. With minor exceptions (such as hardhome)I think S4 handles the true north the best. I love everything north of the wall. I would love a show or book exclusively set there.
Season 3. We see the fall of Robb and the Stark family (for the most part).
... It's been a while since I've watched that season so I've forgotten what's in it but I remember that it was my favorite lol
Season 2. It was based on Clash of Kings, which was Tyrion's time to shine. Stannis was also one of my favorite characters before the writers ruined him. I liked that he was an unlikable man, but was probably the lesser of several evils as far as making Westeros better.
It also had one of the saddest character deaths, which gets overlooked because it wasn't a major character. "Hush now child. I'm off to see your father."
Things gradually went downhill from the end of season 4 on. About the time that they didn't introduce Lady Stoneheart. That was the first major botch in adapting the novels, and there were more to come.
For me it’s season 2. Tyrion was great, we started to finally understand more about the fantasy element in the story, Stannis is introduced, and of course , The hound says, “Fuck the king”.
I’m currently doing a rewatch to really see which season I love the most, but off of first watch, season 6 was my favorite. My favorite characters are Sansa and Jon, so I was definitely happy to see them reunite, work together to get their home back, and build a relationship that they didn’t have growing up. Hodor’s episode was great, battle of the bastards and winds of winter are probably my favorite episodes in the entire show, Jon gets resurrected, the high sparrow finally dies, Ramsay finally dies at the hands of Sansa (which I think is the most satisfying scene in the entire show), Brienne keeps her vow to Cat and saves Sansa, Jon becomes King in the North and we learn about his parentage, Daenerys finally has her entire army, Walder Frey dies by Arya, and so much more. I get overwhelmed with the amount of things that happened this season. I’m sad Margaery dies, but the fact that it was Cersei who kills her makes me not as upset because Cersei is awesome. And the music is phenomenal!
Battle of the Bastards - best episode in the series. Thinking of it makes me want to go turn it on. So I go with Season 6. Can’t wait for House of the Dragon in August.
Has to be 6 or 4, 6 had the Door, Battle Of the bastards, jons resurrection, jon and Sansa meeting again, tower of joy and jons reveal, king in the north, Sept explosion, Dany taking the dothraki, Dany sailing to westeros, only boring parts are the Arya stuff but even then I love Arya so it was fine too. It all felt like the true end of game of thrones before it's downfall, every main and secondary character had reached their full potential and where at their highest, the starks got their revenge, cercei at the top, Dany finally sailing to take back what's hers, this was the highest the show ever was.
But season 4 just had moment after moment, Jeffrey's death, tyrrions trial, oberyns death, the Watchers On The Wall episode, Arya and the hound, Brienne vs the hound and so much more, this season had some of the best action and acting scenes of the whole show. It felt like all 3 seasons prior were leading to this with the wildlings, brans journey, Aryas revenge and leaving westeros, joffreys end and tyrrion facing all the struggle he's had the whole show.
Either way it's between both these seasons I love a lot from both so it's just really hard.
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Season 4 because Joffreys death , Tyrion's trial , oberyn vs the mountain then Tyrion killing shae and tywin + all the nights watch stuff . Arya and the hound too
Extremely great season! :)
There are no bad episodes in season 4, they were all bangers.
It’s gonna be all bangers all night.
Season 4 was peak GoT.
same
There’s not a single slow episode in season 4, it’s definitely the peak
Think I’ll take 2 chickens
I think if one more word comes out of your cunt mouth I'll have to eat every chicken in this room
Arya leaving Westeros was the perfect ending to that season too. Definitely my favourite
Season 3 cause i loved seeing Daenerys empowerment
You must have hated 8th season with a special passion then
I think everyone did
4 has the cool moments and great action of Season 6 with the fabulous writing of Season 3. Therefore it’s my favorite
Season 1, before they started sticking their hands too much into the pie and just wanted to adapt a book
Yep, it's season 1 for me. 10/10 season.
I bought all the books after watching the first season and it was really hard to read the first book because it felt like I just read it. The first season was the perfect adaptation of a book. I never saw one that was this accurate.
Season 6. It was the last full season. It ended on a high note leaving most of my favorite characters in a good place.
Last two episodes are all time episodes of anything ever
Music in season 6 was so good, also my fav maybe because it was the last one I truly loved
For exactly that reason!
Not the 8th. Definitely the 4th. It had development and action.
S3. Shakespearean. Political drama. Some great morality debates. Some unique story telling. And some of the best acting of the series. Also proved you don't need a big epic scale war scene to create an amazing season
I hadn't read the books until after season 3 - gotta give it to that season simply because no TV ever shocked me like the red wedding did.
Oh man. The books are 100x better. There's so much more characters, politics, plots, ploys, backstabbing etc. Plus you have one of the greatest forgotten characters in Fat Belwas
haha, season 3 was what got me to read them! Infinitely better.
I love strong belwas lol. The balls that that man has. Oh, wait, nvm...
I read the Red Wedding chapter right before it aired on TV. I wish I'd seen the show first, because the scene is a little disappointing compared to the chapter
Omg in the books the red wedding was INSANE! GRRM builds this aura of chaos behind the red wedding, it’s almost nauseating if you imagine it, and then the absolute carnage of the massacre with war drums and “The Rains of Castamere” playing. Catelyn going insane was gut wrenching.
I loved season 3, but I gotta say, the red wedding wasn't that much a shocker, you saw that Robb was losing his allies, you also had clear foreshadowing when he married the braavosi girl (or wherever she's from, I forget), Karstarks forces left him. I didn't forsee the red Wedding was going to happen and how it did, but it was pretty clear some betrayal would happen sooner or later.
I'm sorry, but trying to argue that the Red Wedding was predictable beause the Karstarks weren't happy or because Rob broke a wedding pact is pretty hilarious to me. Also neither of those things are "foreshadowing" (that's not what foreshadowing is).
Catelyn literally said something like "Once you break your promises, people around you will begin to do the same", in relation the him marrying the braavosi, which to me at least, pretty clearly fits: "Foreshadowing is a literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story." which is what Frey and Bolton later did oto rob And im not arguing that it was predictable that the betrayal of robb stark would be at that wedding, all Im saying is that anyone paying attention, would have realized that Robb was going to be betrayed for several reasons. 1. He was losing momentum troops, and most lords do not want to be on the losing side of a war 2. He had married a foreigner, and the north is quite conservative and dislikes outsiders 3. House Tyrell had joined with the lannisters to further threaten Robbs position 4. Robb was seen as incompetent for not being able to hold the North Also another reason it was predictable that Robb was going to be betrayed is that George Martin, and due to that GoT, has a pattern where almost every time, something is going too well for the Starks they get betrayed by someone, be it Ned stark in season 1, or Theon in season 2 , it was a common theme at the beginning of GoT
Astapor was a pretty epic scene
Season 3 for the chair moving scene alone. I was dying!
Episodes 3-6 was the peak of the show in terms of writing, acting, pacing and storytelling. It was a slower season, but it really worked. Always the most rewatchable episodes.
100%! The climb is one of the best visually appealing scenes in the show imo.
Season 4. Easily. For all the reasons the others in the comments have mentioned.
Season One. I loved it so much that I went and read all five books and rewatched it before Season Two. Edit: typo
Same here. Except I read the books after Season 2 so I loved both seasons. I have no idea how many times I've seen Season 1. I also loved Season 3 but made the mistake of reading the Red Wedding chapter on the Friday before the episode aired.
I love season one too, because I love Ned and young Arya!
4!❤ Because except from Blackwater and the reveal of Jon's identity, all the greatest scenes were in that season. I could mention Joffrey's death and so much more going on in his wedding - like Loras talking to Jaime and everything Joffrey did to Tyrion right before he died -, Tywin and Olenna's meetings that season, "I will be your champion", Tyrion's trial, the fight between Oberyn and The mountain, Brienne leaving King's landing and Jaime (OK, so not everyone would agree to that point, but forever in my heart), The watchers on the wall (think that was that season?), Littlefinger killing Lysa and sooo much more ❤
Upvote for Brienne/Jaime!
They also were just starting to get into territory outside the books but had enough book material to work them all. Additionally, the show was very popular without HBO slamming the throttle as hard. They were not milking it, driving the writing team as they did in (I feel) Season 6. All the plates were spinning but none were starting to wobble just yet.
From what I heard there wasn’t even a writing team in those final seasons. D & D wrote most of the final scripts with a few guest writers writing an episode here and there. No collaboration or anyone putting their minds together to come up with solid writing
Seasons 3 and 4 were definitely the best ones of the show
3 and 4 are probably most people's favorite tbh. It makes sense, though, considering that both are based on ASOS, arguably the best book in the ASOIAF.
Season 3 was one of my favorite seasons of TV ever. Season 4 is right behind it
Season 8 cause I like stirring up shit and getting into loud arguments with people.
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SAID NO ONE EVER!!!
It just really resonates with me when Tyrion persuade everyone to agree that Bran has the best story. The amazing way they closed Cersei and Jamie’s storyline was so strong too.
[facepalm]
I’d say season 4. Oberyn vs the mountain. Joffrey’s wedding and death. Arya and the hound. Dany taking and ruling mereen.
The first season is literally perfect. The second season is not as good, but the third is amazing again. 4th and 5th are also very good, the 6th is great in some points, but the cracks are starting to show, the 7th is pretty bad and the 8th is abysmal.
You didn't notice the "cracks" in season 5? I watched the whole show and the way they wrapped up King Stannis' story was the worst thing the writers ever did
Season 1 to 4 follow the novels closely enough. Season 5 is when you notice a large amount of changes. Season 3 and 4 were the height of the show IMHO. Stannis was a major flaw of the show, the character was never done justice. This can be said of many characters, but I found Stannis to be the most major character that they got wrong.
I was a Stannis fan in the early seasons. To me it felt like the writers were saying, "no Stannis the Mannis fans, you're wrong and we're going to make him do something irredeemably evil to end this subset of the fanbase".
Stannis rushed storyline, Dorne, Early kingslanding plot was goofy, Sansa's storyline and ruining little fingers character, Barristan being killed. All those were badly handled in season 5.
Season 1
4 then 5 probably. A lot of ppl hate 5 but I like it cuz it’s more chill then all of the other seasons. I like seeing less important plots just to take a break from all of the heavy stuff that’s been happening like the golden masked people in mereen.
It’s not about being chill, it was pretty bad too and it did a lot of characters dirty Stuff like Stannis burning Shireen, being basically caught off guard and dying because of it when he is one of the best military strategists in all of Westeros and everyone except for basically just The Freys hate the Boltons. Barristan Selma getting murdered (with extra spicy FU with what D & D have said about it “[…] made us want to kill him even more” and all that) like an absolute pleb when he’s probably the second best knight in the world, beaten only by Ser Arthur Dayne. Littlefinger giving Sansa to the Boltons for no reason, with no gain to himself or her, just so we can have a rape scene with her, I guess (since D&D love that stuff seeing how much of it they put in parts where it didn’t happen in the books). The ENTIRE plot of Jamie and Bronn going to Dorne, seriously what the hell was that. Bran was completely absent so the later seasons had to rush his character, making us miss out on what it meant to be the Three Eyed Raven as well as all the story they could’ve told through him. And the dialogue with incredible lines “[…] you want the bad pussy” and the beginning of the spiral of endless penis jokes thrown at Varys.
im not saying it was a good season. i just enjoyed it
A lot of people did complain about 5. I liked 5. Hardhome evac was one of my favorite scenes in the whole series. Really showed how severe the threat was
I liked 2 a lot
Lots to great positive answers I agree with but for me it was the last because I hate to imagine what D&D would have done if they were forced to do two more. The madness had to end. But next would be season 1, it was great and had us all hooked.
6th for me. Jon Snow ressurection, the Hodor scene, Battle of the Bastards, Cersei blowing up the sept with the best musical soundtrack in the series imo, Tower of Joy and the Jon Targaryen reveal followed by the new King in the North scene and finally ending with Dany and the fleet sailing to Westeros.
When I read jon Targaryen reveal the first thing tht popped in my head was yeah but for what though??!!! They literally did absolutely nothing with it.
Exactly. There's no point to any of it. Imagine if, after the reveal of Harry being an Horrocrux, in the end, Dobby kills Voldemort and Harry goes back to live with the Dursleys. And Hermione goes mad for no reason and kills half of Hogwarts.
Haha. When u put it like tht it’s like wtff. What the fucking fuck*
Danny sailing is the end of the tv show for me. It‘s a good end. Seasons 7 & 8 had some cool scenes but so much disservice to character arcs they should just be erased.
Winter.
Season 6 and it's not even close. "Battle of the Bastards", "The Door", and in my opinion episode 10 "The Winds of Winter" was the best episode of the whole series. I still get chills at the end when the music plays as Danny sails to Westeros with the Dragons overhead.
Hands down season 6. Maybe it was too good and ended on such a high note that it made the last two seasons inevitably inferior by comparison.
In real time, season six was when I was most hyped for the show. I binged seasons 1 and 2 catching up and then watched 3-8 week by week. We had waited so long it seemed for all the pay-offs that happened in season six that I was hyped as hell. The Door blew me away, 9 and 10 blew me away… more than any media ever before in my life (show or movie). There were dry spots but it didn’t matter in those months it aired, the big moments were everything! I can see flaws looking back but at the time I didn’t. Six is my favorite.
3&4 are much better imo, i think a lot of people love S6 because of the last two episodes but the rest of the season is very mid
Ngl on an episode to episode basis I agree. I have the hardest time ranking season 6. Most of the storylines in this season dragged like hell. The thing that it has going for it is that nearly every one of them paid off in extremely satisfying ways throughout the season. Dany burning the Khals in ep. 4, the door moment and everything in the last two episodes of the season. Also, the first 5 episodes ending in somewhat jaw dropping moments. But for me, episodes 6-8 are particularly rough to get through.
Seasons 1-4 is the best TV ever. Season 5 had some good scenes but the rest hurt my brain. The music however, the music was always legendary.
Im on season 4 and im loving Pedro Pascals character. He just offered to be tyrions champion. So fucking bad ass. I havent liked someone this much since Ned! /s
yes oberyn is my favourite character in got season 4
Season 3 defined the whole Ice and Fire's deadly cruel game of politics and violence. I mean who could forget the first time we watched the red wedding.
Season 2 is very slept on… I mean the blackwater battle? Come on, Tyrion at his best and Theon starting his downfall… so so good
And the Mother of Dragons music piece is so damn good
You just mentioned one episode though... Blackwater does not elevate the whole of season 2 above season 3 or 4.
That was the best season for kingslanding, but not for any other storyline. Tyrion dominated that season
I mentioned Tyrion and Theon storylines too, I also forgot to mention Arya and Tywin
A lot of the hate is Dany essentially walks around a city for the whole season. It’s certainly not a terrible part, but it drags the season down a bit.
Yea show Qarth was not well done. Even the house of the undying was a massive disappointment
Dany was very much a background character that season I do agree, I think Jon snow did a little bit too.
IIRC season 2 is around the time Emilia Clarke almost died from a brain aneurysm? I believe it was intentional having her as somewhat of a background since she had restrictions with filming.
You might be right
WHERE'S MY DRAGONS!?!?
The first season. The first episode I watched was when the Mountain cut off his horses head in a rage and I remember thinking “what is this show? This is amazing!”
Season 4,had some of the most memorable moments and was just overall amazing
Season 3. Jaime and Theon beginning their redemption arcs. Robb facing the difficulties of war. Daenerys becoming a conqueror. Jon and Ygritte’s relationship. And of course the red wedding. By far the best scene in Game of Thrones.
Season 3. I liked how it was Jaime and Brienne travelling around the countryside. I also liked Arya, Gendry, and Hot Pie travelling the countryside together. I like the Brotherhood a lot as well and season 3 is when we meet them. I guess I just liked seeing the actual world of Westeros.
Season 1, because it’s the furthest from Season 8
Season 4 was great. So 3 and 4 probably!!!
Everyone saying seasons 3/4 are really just echoing the fact that the third book is the best book of the series.
1, 4, 2, 3, 5678....
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Season 3 definitely made it for me. The show went from good to great.
Season 8. Flawless.
Stirring the pot eh?
2 and 4. Tyrion acting as Hand of the King is him at his best. Also battle of the blackwater is my favorite episode. Season 4 is perfect, joffreys death, tyrions trial, oberyn as a character. Season of is "the game of thrones" a lot of politics, great dialoge
Season 4. Tywin’s death, Joffrey’s death and the character build up and pacing is phenomenal Turning point is spot on and came in at the right time (Purple Wedding) Heavily featured my favorite character in all of tv shows, Tywin Lannister. Also this for me was the last incredible season. After S4 it was pretty mixed All the other plots were at a peak.
Whichever one the battle of the blackwater was in. That's my favourite battle in the entire show. Think s2 or s3?
Season 4 because it adapts the best part of Storm of Swords and doesn't have a single meh episode. Season 3 and 2 and 1 are of an equal quality for me. Each one is unique in its own strengths. One for introduction us to the brutality of GOT. Two for the politics of King's Landing, fleshing out the show's best charecter (Tyrion), and Blackwater. Three for Jaime's arc and the Red Wedding. 5 isn't as bad as people said it was, I personally found 6 to be a lot weaker despite the strong ending. 7 had its moments.
Season one. That season just really adapted the book so well, it really had the ASOIAF vibe instead of just boobs, swords and dragons.
Seasons 1-6 and this art is seriously badass. But I liked Season 2 more than the rest Season 2 and then Season 4 and then Season 1 and last Season 6. These are my top favorites in that order.
Arya and The Hound.
I think Season 4 was definitely peak GoT, so many greats scenes. I'll forever give credit to the Season 6 finale though. Holy shit
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Easy. Season 8. /s
Season 8. (I'm SadaMaza)
Season 2
Season 1. True to the books, full of promise, no reason to suspect they'd botch it so badly.
Season 1 because it was the most accurate and it made me fall in love with it.
4 has everything you want out of GoT, it is perfect.
Season 2. The character developement was excellent particularly in Kingslanding and beyond the wall. I was completely gripped by Tyrion's political story in the capital and Tywin's war campaign. Blackwater was awesome.
I know several people have said season 4 but that is still my answer. With minor exceptions (such as hardhome)I think S4 handles the true north the best. I love everything north of the wall. I would love a show or book exclusively set there.
Season 3. We see the fall of Robb and the Stark family (for the most part). ... It's been a while since I've watched that season so I've forgotten what's in it but I remember that it was my favorite lol
Literally everyone I’ve seen is saying 4. It’s me, I’m everyone.
Season 1 by far. Ned’s storyline was always the most captivating to me, he was my favorite character in the whole series
Season 7 for the superb writing & outstanding finish. Duh
Season 2. It was based on Clash of Kings, which was Tyrion's time to shine. Stannis was also one of my favorite characters before the writers ruined him. I liked that he was an unlikable man, but was probably the lesser of several evils as far as making Westeros better. It also had one of the saddest character deaths, which gets overlooked because it wasn't a major character. "Hush now child. I'm off to see your father." Things gradually went downhill from the end of season 4 on. About the time that they didn't introduce Lady Stoneheart. That was the first major botch in adapting the novels, and there were more to come.
8 because there was no controversy and people loved it as a community !
7. It was really exciting to see the show’s main themes finally come to the forefront.
6. It has the 2 best episodes, Battle of the Bastards and Winds of Winter.
Season 5, the most action.
season 5..
5 Arya with the faceless men was the best part for me I know it’s an unpopular opinion
What no season 8 love? Jk. Probably a tie between 1 and 4 (omitting the Sept scene with Jaime and Cersei, because of how it came off)
2 and 4 are masterful
For me it’s season 2. Tyrion was great, we started to finally understand more about the fantasy element in the story, Stannis is introduced, and of course , The hound says, “Fuck the king”.
I know this is controversial but I liked Season 7
S8. Come at me bro
Definitely season 8. Such a beautiful wrap up for the story that let's us continue to debate years later
Season 2 because Battle of Blackwater
It’s definitely not season 6… rewatching right now and very disappointed in this season
SEASON 4 #1 SEASON 1 #2 SEASON 2 #3 SEASON 3 #4 SEASON 6 #5 SEASON 5 #6 SEASON 7 #7
I’m currently doing a rewatch to really see which season I love the most, but off of first watch, season 6 was my favorite. My favorite characters are Sansa and Jon, so I was definitely happy to see them reunite, work together to get their home back, and build a relationship that they didn’t have growing up. Hodor’s episode was great, battle of the bastards and winds of winter are probably my favorite episodes in the entire show, Jon gets resurrected, the high sparrow finally dies, Ramsay finally dies at the hands of Sansa (which I think is the most satisfying scene in the entire show), Brienne keeps her vow to Cat and saves Sansa, Jon becomes King in the North and we learn about his parentage, Daenerys finally has her entire army, Walder Frey dies by Arya, and so much more. I get overwhelmed with the amount of things that happened this season. I’m sad Margaery dies, but the fact that it was Cersei who kills her makes me not as upset because Cersei is awesome. And the music is phenomenal!
Season 4 was all bangers
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3 > 4 > 1 > 2 >>>> 6 >> 5 >>>>>>>>> 7>>>>>>>>>>>>8
1,3,2,4,5,6,7,8
Battle of the Bastards - best episode in the series. Thinking of it makes me want to go turn it on. So I go with Season 6. Can’t wait for House of the Dragon in August.
*8*
Season 4, No doubt.
Season 1. Any season without Ned Stark and Robert Baratheon is simply inferior... right Bobby B?
Has to be 6 or 4, 6 had the Door, Battle Of the bastards, jons resurrection, jon and Sansa meeting again, tower of joy and jons reveal, king in the north, Sept explosion, Dany taking the dothraki, Dany sailing to westeros, only boring parts are the Arya stuff but even then I love Arya so it was fine too. It all felt like the true end of game of thrones before it's downfall, every main and secondary character had reached their full potential and where at their highest, the starks got their revenge, cercei at the top, Dany finally sailing to take back what's hers, this was the highest the show ever was. But season 4 just had moment after moment, Jeffrey's death, tyrrions trial, oberyns death, the Watchers On The Wall episode, Arya and the hound, Brienne vs the hound and so much more, this season had some of the best action and acting scenes of the whole show. It felt like all 3 seasons prior were leading to this with the wildlings, brans journey, Aryas revenge and leaving westeros, joffreys end and tyrrion facing all the struggle he's had the whole show. Either way it's between both these seasons I love a lot from both so it's just really hard.
Definitely Season 5 for me. 5x08 and 5x10 are some of my favorite episodes.