I stumbled upon a random thread on a game forum regarding TV show recommendations back in 2011 and there were some people recommending a show called 'Game of Thrones' saying if you were into LOTR, you'd like it.
I decided to give it a try even though there were only 4 episodes out at the time and to my surprise, I was instantly addicted to it. I remember after finishing episode 9 how shocked and surprised I was. The show felt weird in a way because the main character had just been killed so early on, and which show did that? Was completely unexpected and something new for me.
Ever since then, the hype for the show was real. Whenever a new season was out, every Monday became special (Living in EU) and for me at least, was something I looked forward to in excitement. I'd watch a new episode and go on Reddit to read discussions and theories for days. And as the seasons went on, the show got bigger and bigger and the more people I knew watched it. At some point all of my friends in real life watched it and we'd spend days in school discussing and arguing about things. People would read crazy theories and then share that with us.
It was a tradition to rewatch the whole of GOT before a new season came out to refresh your memory and people counted the days/months before the release of a new season. For me at least, this was the best show I 'experienced'. From not knowing what will happen next because everything was unpredictable to reading all of the in depth theories to discussing the show with my friends to being very excited about something in life. It may sound stupid or pathetic, but when you mostly do the same thing every day as a routine, having something like that to look forward to was nice.
I'm really curious if you guys feel the same? Although I have to say that I tried to rewatch the show after season 8 and I just couldn't. So much build up feels useless, all the foreshadowing and the 'prophecies' that were meant to be all was thrown out it seems like. But I'm not posting this to complain, just wanted to share my experience with this show and honestly it's pretty sad that no show or movie has made me feel like GOT did.
Submitted March 16, 2022 at 03:10AM by w1mm0r https://ift.tt/yOVHPKR
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