As the show went on, the writers became more and more obsessed with the word “cock”.

I hate that D&D didn’t just hand the series over to someone else. The fact that their egos were so much bigger than caring about the quality of the show will never not disappoint me, mostly because it’s just so disrespectful towards the fans and the legacy of the series.

I hated how they made Casterly Rock look like a normal castle. It's supposed to be a impregnable stronghold inside a freakin mountain that's taller than the wall. Not even dragons is able to touch it.

The show went from top tier drama to a fan service action movie. I personally feel, GOT was always about exceptional writing and buildup, never the guns and big action sequences. It still hurts me to see how terribly the show ended.

Can’t Believe it’s already been 2 years since the show ended. If things went the way HBO wanted we would still be theorizing about the end. What a shame

Season 7 JON SNOW: We need allies Season 8 JON SNOW: She my queen

I couldn’t believe how indifferent she was to losing her dragon. I thought what was going to be kind of a big deal. She was more upset when My sundae died.

Jaime leaving Cersei is probably the only good scene in this season (along with Olenna's death scene). Shame that they butchered it in season 8 along with his entire character arc with one line of dialogue.

The fact that this season holds a critic score of 93% on Rotten Tomatoes is insane to me, with the consensus reading: “After a year-long wait, Game of Thrones roars back with powerful storytelling and a focused interest in its central characters - particularly the female ones.”

I agree with everything. I can't believe how people only criticise season 8 when season 7 was absolute garbage as well.

One thing that absolutely infuriated me about season 7 is that Jaime didn't immediately leave after Cersei blew up the sept with wildfire. Omg why? He killed a king for just the *intention* to do that. And then D&D have the nerve to write a scene where Cersei asks him if he is angry and Jaime answers "No, not angry." I'm sorry - but WTF?! That was a major red flag for season 8 now that I think about it... But noo, they had to force their stupid twincest storyline down our throats.

It became increasingly difficult to see Arya as this amazingly gifted athletic assasin. Especially without the "faces"

D&D bailed out on GoT to go write a Star Wars movie that was so bad Disney released them from their contract.

Jon : "How many men do we have in the North to fight him?" "Ten thousand? Less?" Ser Davos : "Fewer" The best dialogue of season 7 because it's a reference to the Goddamn Mannis

They also ruined the White Walkers on the long run when they introduced the bullshit plotpoint that all wights die automatically after killing a general. Yet they conviniently spare one wight for the sake of the plot.

Imagine what would've happened to Tywin if he lived up to Season 7 and 8? Kinda glad he died off when the Show was doing rather well with its writing and characters.

It's actually incredibly easy to track when each character stopped being interesting or well-written; literally every single character starts wearing only black from about season 5 through 7, and each time someone makes the switch from their old outfits they immediately become a brainless plot-advancer with no character motivation or logic It happens in practically every show or movie made nowadays, because for some reason writers/costumers seem pathologically incapable of showing that a character is in SERIOUS MODE without turning their entire wardrobe black "because black is like, a badass colour for cool characters" in the eyes of apparently every showrunner going

Baelish was an excellent character, a true mastermind. God, what a WASTE : his death was so meaningless i hated this season because of this

A lot of people just bash season 8 and think that's when GOT died. But the more hardcore fans I guess you could say knew the quality dipped straight after season 4

My least favorite episode of the whole show is always gonna be the one in season 7 when they go beyond the wall and trade a dragon of a wight. It's so incomprehensibly stupid on all levels. They think a small group of rangers can catch a wight from a giant army of dead without being killed. Check. Only two people in the group have ever been beyond the Wall before. Have the others even seen snow before? Btw, they aren't covering their ears either, they really do care more about looks than frostbite. They didn't use a dragon to get there, and Tyrion thought this would actually change Cersei's mind. You have already checked those two. Then after being attacked, they conveniently get to a safe island, and conveniently the wights are just standing there waiting for the water to freeze. Somehow Gendry, with no experience in winters, manage to escape and complete a super marathon back to Castle Black. Then they speed run Gendry sending a letter to Daenerys, and Daenerys flying all the way beyond the Wall, just in time before the water freezes. Check. How did Daenerys even find them so quickly? Then the famous "Jon Snow not getting on the freaking dragon", which gives the Night King enough time to kill Viserion, when he should instead have killed Drogon and all the people on him. Then the NUMBER ONE most HATED moment of GOT, imho: Jon being saved by Benjen in the most cliche Deus Ex Machina imaginably possible: "UNCLE BENJEN!!!! I THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD!!!!!!" "NO TIME TO EXPLAIN, YOU NEED TO GO!" **Then dies so he can avoid explaining wtf just happened.** We're still not done here. After they all escape, the wights manage to pull the dead dragon up from the water with chains. Where did they get so much chain, and with that thickness and quality too? Did they just find that conveniently or did they make it? How the f*ck would they make that? How did they attach the chain to the dragon? If they could swim, why did they wait for the water to freeze when they surrounded Jon and his friends? There was no point showing the dragon at the end of the episode at all, it would be a way better payoff to just surprise us with it at the season finale. Then they could have avoided the problems with the chain as well. Instead, we were all just waiting for the zombie dragon to show up, killing off all the cool revelation they could have given. And why did this episode exist? It was only so the Night King could get a pet dragon. I mean, an ice dragon is freaking cool, but I'm speechless of how much they forced it. It's like they're trying to defend themselves, saying all this devoid of logic was necessary to achieve this. They could seriously not think of any other way to handle Viserion over to the Night King? Like, just have the Walkers attack the edge of the Wall, by getting around through the water. Then make Daenerys fight them and lose Viserion in the process. I know season 8 is awful, but even that can't beat my hate for the Beyond the Wall episode. I can't think of a single good thing that episode gave.

Season 7 is the reason I didn't watch Season 8. So... maybe I should give it some credit for letting me dodge a bullet 🤔

The first 4 seasons had probably the best writing I've ever seen in any TV show or movie

man, after what happened with littlefinger I knew there was no hope for season 8, how can you kill a super intelligent character that has fooled the best in the realm by him getting fooled by little girls? that was stupid beyond belief.

Grey Worm: Jon, what do you think about this strategy.. Jon: We need allies!

8:22 (grins) "Contrived scenes...such as hey, why don't we invent a scene of Cersei and Tyrion confronting each other face to face, just to show off the casts' acting chops?" *These Performances, These Faces.*

A German KZfaqr brought it on the point. "D&D were the masters over one of the best franchises ever made, they had the best artists, cast, visual effects and with HBO they had one of the very few companies to maximize the potential. They couldve went into history as the best showrunners of all time, the sky was the border, but they and only them threw it"

The one thing I'll never forgive to D&D is ruining jaime's character arc . I was so invested and for what? For him to suddenly forget he's good ?

Everyone got angry because of S8 I got angry in this season especially after what they did with Littlefinger

Beyond the Wall and The Dragon and the Wolf are *almost* up there with season 8 level stupidity. Its crazy how some people think they're good episodes

Crazy how a world wide phenomenon got absolutely shafted, now no one remember GOT unless they talk about how bad it ended

It’s seriously insane that the show ended 2 and a half years ago and the only cultural relevance it has is it being picked apart for how bad the final seasons were, which is still very much ongoing

As an adaptation of a book series I loved, Game of Thrones lost me in Season 5 and all its mediocrity and BS (Ser Barristan, Stannis’ rushed and underwhelming resolution, Dorne,, Sansa’s rape, etc.) and I actually didn’t watch Season 6 when it first came out. It was only after Season 7 was about to come out that I binged Season 6 and while there was some improvement, the show still didn’t have the stellar quality it had from Seasons 1-4. Season 7 was a mindlessly entertaining experience. Some enjoyable parts but I realized I was watching more out of curiosity than actually being invested in the characters/story arcs any more. In the end it really made me long all the more for Books 6&7 when they release in 2040 and heat death of the universe respectively so I can experience a proper resolution to the series

Essentially, all of the character arcs were character circles. Everyone ended where they started because D&D lacked any creativity and relied only on what they already knew.

After Tyrion shot a crossbow bolt into his dad's bowels he never did anything as awesome or dramatically intense as that for the remainder of the entire show.

Jamie's arc is honestly the only reason for me to watch season 7. Then I felt like crying when I saw how they massacred his character development in few episodes of season 8. Shit.

I was honestly surprised people hated season 8 that much when it came out, because there was no such backlash to the just as terrible season 7. Writing quality and overall dumbness are the same, only difference being that 8 had the ill luck of being the final one with no future seasons to hide behind I guess. I still hold that the plan to bring a wight to Cersei and its execution, as well as the way the world folded onto itself to actually allow it to kinda succeed, is by far the most mind numbingly idiotic sequence of the entire (or any) show.

The excursion beyond the wall still makes me shake my head when I remember that bs 🤦‍♀️

I'm still so sad this happened to such an epic show. 😥

I'd like to believe that the deterioration of Jon's dialogue into basic plot progressors was due to him losing some of himself as a result of his resurrection, and him holding onto his purpose as a guide and a reminder of his former person... But we all know D & D aren't that smart.

Season 7 is like a Marvel film if it had a finger in da bum!

The season that warned us of the disaster.

It's crazy that on IMDB this season is one of the highest rated. it has an average of 9,1, the same as season 1.

I can’t imagine creating the best tv show ever and then just throwing it away.

SHAME on the writers for such stupidity, shame. It was the greatest show of the decade! to die in this sordid way. Ruined by bad writing like some low quality show, SHAME! -Gaius Julius Caesar.

Season 7 was the step before going off the cliff. There are nice things to look at but when you think about it, you realize how ridiculous the season really is.

My thoughts during season 7: "season 8 will make up for this, they just had to rush to get everything in place" My thoughts during season 8: "Season 7 wasn't that bad actually, I miss season 7. God please end my suffering"

You know what the saddest part about season 7 was? I remember everybody saying "it's okay, yeah they're rushing a lot of stuff, but that's just so they can set up season 8 and make it even better."

"The world's most expensive film school"

idk why hbo doesn’t just assemble a team of writers and just throw together a proper ending - just act like the last 2-3 seasons don’t exist - and why not? - i mean, i already do.

Season 7 stank so bad. A lot of superfans are only realising that now. It was overshadowed by hype and the desperate hope that season 8 would fix everything. What a fall from grace

GOT ended at season 6 I don't remember anything after. 🔥🔥🔥

The Witcher 3 soundtrack always gives me goosebumps.

One thing I love about this show is that you can tell where they ran out of books even if you haven't read them.

Littlefinger was also a character that just felt really off here and not up to what he usually was. Basically, all he did was make up that weak scheme of pitting Sansa and Arya against each other. Daenerys and Jon Snow was way too rushed and I was not really seeing it. It's like she was all, "Oh, he won't bend the knee to me! There's something interesting about him!" But she didn't really end up liking that with all the constant back and forth they went through with her questioning his loyalty and him always having to reassure her that's she was "muh queen". And then trust broke down completely between them once she found out he was a Targaryen and a possible obstacle to her throne. The attraction just seemed more physical than anything. I liked Daenerys' relationship with Daario better, because she wasn't in love with him, but it could have built up to that eventually since he wasn't afraid to give her his opinions, yet he always knew his place, and I think she appreciated that. That way, it would have been more realistic for her to eventually fall for him because it would have had more build-up. Jaime felt like the one thing they did absolutely right here. He gradually grew more distanced from Cersei's ways, and then having him finally put his foot down against her ignoring the whitewalker issue and her whole weird Golden Company idea and then get on that horse and leave was the best thing he ever did. But then they ruined it all in season 8!

Anyone that agrees with Season 7 being ok or good, are clearly bias against the amount of forced and contrived fan service bullshit it's given people as a dopamine effect. I'm surprised you forgot to mention one of the worst parts in the season, and that one being Littlefinger's death and his overall complete stupidity throughout the entire season because of bad writing.

Long winded rants on how they could have “fixed” Jon, Arya, Bran, and Tyrion somewhat if they had more seasons and hadn’t cut some things. Jon: Include Stoneheart in the show as between Stoneheart and Beric the audience understands how much “less“ a person becomes when they’re resurrected and in Stoneheart’s case single-minded obsession on one objective. Then once that’s understood emphasize that’s what is happening to Jon as he loses both his warmth and personality traits and becomes single-minded about first “getting allies” to save the Kingdom then defending “muy Queen” in Season 8 to the point of madness and setting up a mini redemption arc where Jon recovers a bit of who he once was to save the Kingdom from a new threat. Arya: Again include Stoneheart and have Arya team up with them to wipe out the Freys and Lannisters because she longs for her family which Stoneheart can Provide but over time have her become horrified at how far gone Stoneheart is and scared she’s becoming like Stoneheart. She could become so disgusted she could swear off her face changing powers as she sees how similar they are to the ones that brought Stoneheart back. Since this is similar to her final interaction with Sandor, include him in the plot line and have him be the one to let go of the mindless revenge Stoneheart represents. Bran: Actually explore the backstory of Bran’s teacher and confirm it’s Brynden “Bloodraven” Rivers and hint that Bloodraven’s mind has taken over Bran’s body, thus explaining his dispassionate interactions with Bran’s loved ones, his callous defense of the realm from threats like the Night King and even that he’s manipulating things to get revenge on the main Targaryen branch and becoming ruler. Tyrion: Not cut the Tysha revelation. By finding out that his beloved brother was culpable in the events that led to her gang rape and exile, Tyrion would become the villain GRRM wanted him to become in the later books. No longer caring about being nice, Tyrion’s ruthlessness from Season 2 is now unchecked and he starts using his mind to make harsh but politically/tactically pragmatic moves to further Daenerys’ cause and get revenge on his family. Hell he could have been the one to push her into Mad Queen mode while also developing backup leaders like Jon or Bran/Bloodraven should Daenerys become too much of a threat/liability to Tyrion. Fans may have hated his descent into villainy but this would have for better with GRRM’s character arc for him/give Peter Dinklage something more substantive to work with them eunuch jokes and political blunders

7:34 In ASoIaF, Jon caged bodies killed by the Others (White Walkers) before they turned, the Wall's magic kept them from turning into wights, they could have put the caged bodies north of the Wall and went from there

You have fantastic content. Your editing is always on point. Would love to see your breakdown analysis’ of other series as well.

The whole "Roberts Rebellion was built on a lie" plotline was one of the most mind bogglingly terrible examples of how bad the writing became.

Littlefinger was the smartest character in the show! He was the one who started the war of the kings, he was the most machiavellian character in the whole series, and his death was an injustice!!!

Finally I have waited a long time for this my green little friend

this is like seeing photos of a bad break up and still hurts

I think the most common complaint about the last to GoT seasons, which is that it should have been longer, is not a valid one. It didn't matter if they had 13 episodes or 1300, D&D were never going to measure up to the work of GRRM. It would just be 1300 hours of pointless talk, big battle, shocking spectacle (that had no effect on anything after it happened, pointless talk, big battle, and so on.

People remember how when they went north of the wall, there were random throwaway characters getting killed? Like literally completely random men who hadn’t appeared prior in the episode just getting killed while the 7 dudes we saw go north survive.

I started trying to rewatch game of thrones recently... within the first 3 eps I was just done with it, season 7 and 8 completely ruined the ability to rewatch the show. Even the best seasons are crap knowing nothing from them matters in the end.

The biggest problem with season 7 is that it completely abandons any semblancebof actions having consequences. Like, season 6 ends with Cersei blowing up the GoT equivalent of the Vatican because the entire city wanted her hanged for all her sins, and yet theres never a mention of the Faith of the Seven, the militants, or the Sept of Baelor ever again, and the people apparently love her now. If she pulled that stunt in Season 2 shed have been literally torn apart by the citizens of Kings Landing after they burned down the Red Keep. And thats just one example. Almost every character would be dead several times over if their actions in season 7 happened during earlier seasons

Anyone else also notice the lack of colour in costumes? Everyone wearing brown, black and grey and even the Lannister Gold or Dany's Red Cape were muted :/

You should do a countdown on your favourite Game of Thrones episodes

People's views on the show (mine included) prior to season 8 was so skewed because they ignored much of the contrivances, plot holes, and other issues in seasons 5-7 because we were pumped for a sick finale. I was convinced that Littlefinger faked his death using a faceless man and would reappear in season 8, so in that scenario, Littlefinger is playing 4D chess and S7 would've been like 2-3 points higher on a 10 point scale. Then season 8 rolls around and explains nothing and sucks major balls in general. Upon rewatching though, you can just see how much garbage is in season 5-7 and you feel stupid for not noticing the red flags earlier. It's literally like D&D pulled a red wedding on the show and the audience. The clues were there that they were going to absolutely blow it but we, while slightly unnerved, largely ignored it and it was devastating when it happened lol.

It’s actually so sad to watch the last seasons. It feels like your buddies are descending into dementia and becoming strangers to you.

I've rewatched game of thrones seasons 1-5 probably 3-4 times and I've seen season 6-7 once and I couldn't even finish season 8 I think I had a episodes to go but at that point my brain was developing a small tumor which stopped me from being able to watch any farther.

Exactly what I needed, a long video to remind me about how deep of a dive my favorite show of all time took.

I hated what they did to Littlefinger in season 7: he just looked suspiciously and died.

The background music in this video is so good.

I just think David and Dan are poor writers. People think the writing decline began in S7 and 8... but it was occurring as early as S5. In my opinion S5 is perhaps the most boring (but not worst written) season. The whole Sons of the Harpy and Faith subplots were just so utterly uninteresting. I always found Daenerys parts the most uninteresting, honestly. Then from S6 onwards it's like it's not even the same show. The poor writing of S5 led them to dead-ends later on, as they rushed more and more to just get to the conclusion. I also feel like once Bran came along with his omniscience, that it basically allowed David and Dan to just write themselves out of any corner they found themselves in. Don't know how to get rid of Littlefinger? Bran him out. Jon Parentage reveal? Bran it out. Who is the Night King? Branned out that's it's some random unnamed dude in one short scene. Ironically Bran wasn't much use in the areas you think he would be... he was essentially just used as a plot device to push things forward all of a sudden.

Like Joffrey’s wedding, it was an awful affair, but it had its moments...

I thought the resurrection of Jon was supposed to make him more dark and less stoic, only to be shocked when I relieazed that by S7 he was more stoic than ever.

Honestly i hated this season more than season 8, i duuno why but yes whenever i think of rewatching a season of GoT i feel like least attracted to season 7.

I’m over my anger, it now just makes me sad

I'm surprised by how many people say this is the season where Thrones started to fall apart considering every issue present in 7 is just an extension of problems that were already ruining the show in seasons 5-6.

Season 7? What season 7? Got ended in season 4 . I don't wanna know anything about some fanfictions of dumb and dumber 😒

I really liked this video, but you forgot Samwell vomiting and my personal favourite, Varys, being incompetent

7:00 that witcher 3 theme brings me back more memories than the whole season 7!

I'm late to this video but for me one of the things that bother me the most in this season is the Iron Fleet sneaking out of Kings Landing multiple times while Daenerys army is in Dragonstone. Dragonstone is a very important place because if you control it you can control Blackwater Bay and everything that go to Kings Landing from the sea.

Everything you said was spot on. As someone who read the books before it was cool, Season 7 broke my heart. One word: LAZY. It absolutely ruined it, and you nailed every reason why. I’ll never forgive Dumb and Dumber. I’d invested damn near 20 years in loving the books, and it went from brilliance to Sweet Valley High level. (I just dated myself there, but if you get it… you get it.) If I won’t the lottery that provided me with f-you levels of money, I’d love to pay to have Seasons 7 and 8 done RIGHT…. Just to have the proper closure.

I lost it when I saw how Cersei and Jaime die. I literally stood up and yelled "are you fucking kidding me?" To deny us a proper Stark vengeance, the kind of revenge Arya exacted with Walder Frey, was just beyond the pale for me. They had Arya go all the way down to King's Landing with The Hound, and she accomplishes absolutely nothing.

My favorite character was Littlefinger as a book reader. Even my Reddit name I made right after season 1/reading the books that summer is his name. So his lame, nonsensical death ruined the season for me. I didn't even mind the beyond the wall stuff that people hate, it was fun at least. But the whole Arya vs Sansa story is absolute bullshit, they could have just asked Bran in episode 1 or last season and would have fixed the problem. Petyr basically masterminded this whole conflict and dies like a dumbass. I remember all the amazing theories and videos attempting to theorize how that story would go, every single one was better than what we got

I am waiting for the season 2 and 3 video :)

It's honestly very interesting on how after some years after this show ended people still argue and make theories. That's how bad the show was handled in the end.

Do a complilation of every time Jorah says "Khaleesi, please."

damn, hearing the kaer morhen soundrack in the background hit me right in the feels. didnt expect that while watching a analysis of why got s7 was bad

You can fix the beyond the wall episode with one super easy fix: have Dany at Eastwatch, not at dragonstone. She now has an opportunity to meet with the nightswatch and learn more of Jon’s lore, and when Gendry gets to her, there’s an instantaneous rush to get to him. At most it’s a day or two they are on the ice, and the timing makes far better sense.

Wdym, I'm certain GoT stopped making new episodes after season 5.

Great analysis. I remember thinking and talking to friends and us all saying, it's getting worse isn't it? Of course didn't realise how low it was about to sink in s8.

I actually think season 7 is so bad it’s worse than season 8. At least season 8 gave us a few good moments like Bran telling Theon he’s a good person or The Hound convincing Arya not to go for revenge. An underrated moment in the show is the one scene of Arya sneaking past wights. That scene was intense as hell while managing to show off her assassin side that goes so underused. But for season 7, I can’t think of a single good moment I genuinely liked.

I shall never forget the way D&D did me wrong!

God I forgot they put Ed Sheeran in this fucking season

Just imagine an alternate u inverse where after season 4 D&D remember their talk with George when they sat down with him and they both realize their hearts aren’t in it anymore and they need to hand over the show to someone else who has the passion and will to give the show its all and HBO and the show runners respect George’s wishes and makes a more than 10 seasons all together with 10-12 episodes a season and truly tell the story right and it goes down as the greatest show of all time….imagine…..

I think after the Red Wedding in season 3, Game Of thrones started to become popular for people to react to on KZfaq etc. The characters and plot go from 3D to 2D really fast in Season 7 & 8. Season 4 was great but season 5 onwards just got worse until the show seems like it was just something for people to react to. I honestly think that is one of the reasons why they had Arya kill the Night King, they wanted the shock but it has no substance.

Season 4 was a good enough ending for me.... 😇 The first 4 seasons is how I remember these characters tbh.