How sad is it that the finale is the worst episode. The worst part is that the show is structured to heavily rely on the ending which makes the good seasons much harder to enjoy when you rewatch them
It's the exact same as Dexter, where the first 4 seasons are some of the best ever made. The difference is that D&D didn't adapt a LOT of book stuff. The Dexter books are finished, yet seasons 6-9 are still a stain on it.
When talking about GOT I always say S1 - S4 = Perfect television S5 - S6 = Disappointing by GOT standards but has some great moments/episodes S7 - S8 = AWFUL
@@thegoldman25 It's funny how for years I could confidently say that my fav tv show ever was GOT and now it doesn't sound as great to say. I now have to say that the first half of GOT is my fav television ever and despite how it was ruined later on I still think it is.
Imo anyone who disagrees with that cannot trusted, I personally don’t like season 5 or 6 even by normal TV standards, as the majority of the season is pretty lame and I don’t think having a good half hour out of a bad 8 hours means much
@@TheLazarusOperationcomon dude u dont like the "AWESOME convos with things "Bad Poosay" & "Finger in da bum"😂😂 best writing EVA😂I know George didnt have any input after s4 but we went from Jamies monolouge in the bath with Brienne whcih is incredible to "You need a good girl with a bad poosay" lol criminal writing
I haven't been able to rewatch GoT since Season 8 ended. I was heavily invested emotionally in the series after watching it week after week for years since the first season released. I spent countless hours theorizing online and fangirling over things with others. It genuinely felt like I was betrayed by season 8. Like all of the time I spent convincing my friends and family to watch the show and stuff was for nothing. I'll never be able to watch this show all the way through again.
I feel this way exactly! It felt like a relationship going up in flames, traumatizing everyone along the way. I loved it so much. I grew up with the books and was so happy when the adaptation was so good in the beginning… I can't bring myself to watch any of it again. It just reactivates the trauma. And I will never not be angry about what they did to the show and the story.
Those were still great moments. Personally I think (spoilers ig?) Stannis' arc would also fall into it, if it wouldn't have ended with the final episode and abandoned afterwards. Would've been a way more interesting approach if he won the battle of Winterfell and truly had to deal with the consequences of the decisions before
@@kdusel1991the last episode of season 4 was bad through. The scene with Bran was terrible, and Tyrion killing Tywin over him calling Shae a whore make no sense. He just killed her, she betrayed him… and she was a whore! Tyrion shouldn’t care. It does if they are talking about Tysha like they do in the books
The one thing that remained stellar, even as the writing quality nose dived, was the acting. The actors never stopped giving it their all. More power to them!
I was so hype for the Long Night. I was almost certain it was going to be incredible with Miguel directing it and (what seemed to be) the final sendoff of our characters in episode 2. Shame.
Jon should've known to make as grand of an obstacle as he could, like multiple walls and fortifications ect. It seemed like the fortifications at hard Holm last like half an hour altogether. You'd think he'd know winterfells walls wasn't gonna work much longer than that. They also should've known the idea of a fire wall won't work as bran saw whitewalkers eventually cross that fire wall the children of the forest made north of the wall. If you were going to use a fire wall to slow them down surely it makes more practical sense to light the firewall before the battle commences rather than last minute and having to rely on melisandre? All logic seems to be out of the window towards the end of this show.
The Bells needs to be lower. It's pretty amazing that one of the greatest shows ever made managed to put the last 4 eps of the show at the bottom of best episodes list. Biggest tank job in entertainment history.
Top 7 imo (seven because it’s fitting): 1) 3x09: Red wedding. Enough said. 2) 4x09: My favorite battle from the show by far and amazing dialogues in the prelude. 3) 1x07: Not an episode I see commonly mentioned in discussions about the best ever but I think it should be in the conversation. The tension in the final confrontation in the throne room is so well crafted, it still gets me after having watched the episode over ten times already. 4) 2x09: Same reasons as 4x09. I just like Watchers on the wall a bit more than Blackwater. 5) 4x02: The big battles get all the spotlight and they were great, but dialogues are not to be underestimated. I loved everyone here (Tyrion and Joffrey; Oberyn, Ellaria and Tywin, Cersei and especially Tyrion and Shae) plus the highlight of Joffrey dying. Whats not to love? And it set up the best season of the show. 6) 1x09: Having joined the GoT party much later I knew that favorite characters are apparently always at risk, so I expected Ned to die. People who watched it in 2011 may have been more surprised but it is still a great episode of course. 7) 6x09: Tbh it may be higher than it objectively deserves, it certainly doesn’t deserve No1 on IMDB. It just felt so good after all the suffering (meant positively) GoT put us through to leave an episode with a triumphant feeling and it is certainly a spectacular episode, maybe the best looking one overall. Flop 7: 1) 8x05: Aside from the Arya-Bloodhound dynamic I hated everything. You would assume they would get a couple more interactions right just by accident but no. 2) 8x06: I can see this having last place too, since the whole dragon pit fiasco is the worst the show got but the first half I think is actually somewhat decent on its own. It only works if we pretend to like what came before but the mistakes were not made in this episode. 3) 8x04: I barely remember what happened exactly, just that it was horrible which isn’t a good sign. 4) 7x05: While I agree with the criticism of teleportation in season 7 in general, this is the only episode in which it is so bad that I cannot look past it. They just weren’t able to have the human plot and the white walkers plot coexist, so they assigned each one part of the season and this episode was the extremely rushed transition. 5) Foolish plan, shrouding darkness etc. I think, like most, that the humans should have lost the battle but even if they win it: at least have it be painful, we had just five character deaths. Episode 2 actually had a nice melancholic feel to it because you thought that all those friend groups are about to be destroyed in a disastrous battle but then almost nothing happened. 6) 7x07: Just really boring for a final episode of a season. 7) 7x06: At the first watch, the tension was there for me, so they did some things right. However the believability just isn’t there, which works in some franchises but not in the grounded GoT which was ultra realistic for 4 and mostly realistic for 6 seasons. A flop 7 works especially well because I think those are exactly the only bad episodes. So just roughly 10% of the show, the rest ranges from good to masterpiece. I personally still like GoT (rewatches only include 6 seasons of course) but it is so sad how much damage those handful of episodes caused.
Dark wings dark words should be ranked better- the whole scene with Kat revealing her hatred for a motherless child she should’ve won an award for that just my two cents
I'm sorry, I know it's your opinion in the end, but putting battle of the bastards, and the winds of winter above even a single episode from season 1 is an unpardonable crime.
@@Movie_Nerd1 They are two episodes that literally do not make any sense in any aspect. It is 100% pure spectacle and because the spectacle looks so good and feels so exciting, a lot of audience members turn off their brains as a result. If you actually understand the world, the lore, as well as basic logic, it becomes obvious that the last two episodes of season 6 are a completely illogical mess.
I spent like a third of the video wondering why I hadn’t seen the season 7 finale on the list yet lol. It should’ve at least been lower than the Bear and the Maiden Fair imo. Great video though.
S1-4 : Masterpiece, One of the Peak TV show S5-6 : Good, Not Bad S7-8 : Very Bad Top 10 Best GOT episode (my opinion) 1. The Watchers on the Wall 2. The Rains of Castamere 3. The Laws of Gods and Men 4. Blackwater 5. The Winds of Winter 6. Kissed By Fire 7. Fire and Blood 8. You Win or You Die 9. Baelor 10. And Now His Watch Is Ended
Honestly when I first watched all of game of thrones in its entirety after binging the first 4 seasons it hypnotized me into believing seasons 5 and 6 were good because of the overall aura of the show but now the more I think about it the more I dislike the last 4 seasons
@@hassanbadrek2726 the overall vibe of the show and the way I felt like I was their in Westeros blinded me to how disgraceful season 7 and 8 was in how it assassinated all of these character arcs so I finished the show thinking dam that was just ok
You are just a sheep who hear this idiots complain about stuff that don't exist and I doubt you even watched the show. If I make a video complaining about breaking bad season 5 being the worst season because Walter white makes a star wars lazer gun that automatically destroys his enemies in the last episode felina would that make any sense??
Did you yell at the TV when he told Brienne he was a terrible person when he was leaving her? Jaime has ALWAYS self-deprecated himself due to low worth, which is why he adopts this aloof persona to deflect any praise coming his way, which made the fact that Tyrion saw right through it and his final confession all the more poignant. The fact people can't recognize an obvious example of talking sh*t really shows how their basic comprehension tanked in the final few episodes.
The night lands on 65? Below episodes from later seasons? Come on man. I understand that this ep could be uneventful, but there are still plenty of dialogues and interactions that are joy to watch.
Somewhere in between ig…I still think there is some bias towards big moments and spectacle than overall narrative and subtle yet important plot building which was sometimes relegated as ‘boring’. Nevertheless, very enjoyable video and thanks for putting the effort to do such a ranking!
I feared your ranking because I mostly dont agree with you and you did not disappoint. Also as I watch your video I think you like spectacle more than the story and some of your reasoning would suggest that you should demote some of the episodes.
I would definitely have some of the later seasons episodes lower on the list, I understand that they have a lot of memorable moments, but I think that the episodes should be judged as the whole package and not just the best moments, and also I can't ignore poor writing just because the other aspects are well done
@czoborarpi I may have worded it badly. I disagree with more than half of this list, but at the same time, I have the upmost respect to anyone who puts this much time into a video. Dude likely spent at least 50 hours if not more making the video
What about Tommens suicide? For me it was a very powerfull moment. It shows how the concequences of Cercei's actions lead up to her destroying what she loves most, her last living child, but you didnt even mention it. I also think it was executed perfectly. No music, just distant screams and cries, Tommen looking almost emotionless, he just puts his crown down and steps out of the window without hesitation. Gave me chills watching it.
@@Movie_Nerd1 first: it's a opinion not a fact. Second: Visually its good but the logic is awful. It's somewhat of a good battle but the plot armour and sansa saving the day after being the reason jon almost died because she did not tell him about the knights of the vale Was awful.
Going back through the series a second time all the way through with my wife…hodor’s climactic demise GOT MY ASS. I was streaming tears even though I had already seen the episode before. The music just really got me.
When Tyrion says Bran The Broken I started laughing so hard. I had given up long before that but that was the icing on the cake. At least show bran was evil Brenden rivers all along playing the long game but nope. He goes from I can’t be lord of anything to why do you think I came all this way. The worst thing the show ever did was ruin Jamie’s character with ONE SENTENCE.
I tought Season 7 was good, until Season 8 came out. Then we realized how it was a waste of 7 episodes. Could've used some of it to further flesh out S8 stories. For example, the Knight King battle should've been at least 2 episodes if not 3.
There was a lot about the top 12 that I disagreed with, but having Blackwater at no 1 means all is forgiven. It just goes to show that even if most of season 2 isn't as excellent as the other 3 early seasons for the most part, the climax makes it all worth it. Davos, Stannis, Sandor (show version), and Tyrion are all among my favorite characters period and this is their episode. Even Tywin gets a small spotlight at the end!
@Rash23215 She plays an important role in it for sure, she's just not one of my personal favorites. She's still top 10 imo, but House Lannister alone is stacked with some of the best characters period.
when you said "beyond the wall" is when got stopped feeling like got, I literally said out loud this man is spitting facts. would personally be at the very bottom for me
FINALLY! Finally, Blackwater gets the #1 ranking spot it deserves. I have seen many lists and Blackwater is always somewhere between 2-5. I was a week to week watcher from the very first season and when I saw Blackwater I was stunned. Everything about it was perfect. I watched every single episode thereafter, and though they came close (WOW, ROC, BOB), I never thought anything surpassed the almighty Blackwater!.....ps- The Bear and the Maiden Fair should be much high than 50.
I've always wondered why the rape of Sansa was so surprising. It doesn't happen to her in A Dance With Dragons but it DOES happen to Jayne Pool who is Sansas best friend and is disguised as Arya. Even further, it's MUCH worse in the book because Theon (Reek) is forced to participate... It's messed up, but D and D had been blending characters stories from the very first season. This wasn't a random SA scene that they just made up.
No way you put a Season 8 filler episode so high, if it was any other season maybe but this episode in the scope of the time constraint is criminal. This should be nowhere near the middle..
@@rtellez19891 that episode can't get punished for the others in the season though. It wasn't a horrible episode. It wasn't great, but you didn't watch that and feel sick afterwards.
Wow, amazing amount of work to rank every episode! The one I’d nitpick a little is The Climb - Littlefinger’s “chaos is a ladder” speech wasn’t mentioned, or the death of Roz, which I really think clues the audience in to just how ruthless Littlefinger is.
Supercuts delights step cousin. Those who actually watched the show like me don't give a f. The best episodes of GOT would always be #1. The winds of winter #2. The Battle of the bastards #3. The Rains of castermere #4. Hardhome #5. The Door #6. The spoils of war #7. Blackwater #8. Baelor #9. The Children #10. The Watchers on the wall.
@@vinogr00nko93 Cry about it Supercuts delight worshiper. When you grow up you'll learn to have your own opinions and stop being a sheep and don't even bother replying because you don't deserve another response from me
People who put Hardhome in their top 10 don't even remember what happened in the first half of that episode before the battle. Same for The Spoils of War. Outside of Hodor, The Door isn't even a good episode.
@@LFC_Fan23 same for BotB and WoW and the Door, all the episodes are remembered by their short explosive moments and people just collectively forget that they're all an hour long not the 5 minute clips to watch over and over again
Funny enough, no cap, we have the same first place episode. After many rewatches season 2 is my favorite season. And if that's my favorite season, needless to say blackwater is my favorite episode. Badass fighting, stanis most of all, Lannister tricks, tywin and loris leading in a Calvary charge saving the day, cersei looking good lol, Tyrion bravery, bronn jokes, sansa side comment-ing joffery before battle because the north remembers, everything. AND the Lannister song! 🦁
Sure battle, the bastards and winds of winter are cool all but the inconsistencies the plot holes and the plot armor make it so hard to put it in the top 10. Especially when there are so many great episodes to choose from.
The season 7 finale is one of the worst episodes of the show IMO. All of the dialogue contradicts itself when compared to past seasons. Cersei not killing Tyrion, Jon being mind bogglingly dumb, everything that happens at Winterfell. God that episode was stupid
I've seen a lot of these videos and most of them point out the fake beef between Aria and Sansa as being unnecessary. But, the thing about that is they know Littlefinger is always listening so they have to always pretend to be at each others throat for the plot to work.
that’s the most insane cope i’ve ever heard. GOT season 5-8 defenders are on a level of delusion that is unparalleled. when did the show EVER allude to that lmaoooooo. this is just a headcanon you’ve made up, i know this bcos when i first watched the show i had to do it constantly in the last 4 seasons. rewatch the show & just admit to yourself that it’s garbage after season four my guy
to be fair there are a few good moments in s5&6 that were still being adapted but for the most part the writing took a huge plummet. by the end of season 6 it’s the same terrible hollywood shlock writing as s7&8
@@ImIndavyjoneslocker to be fair, my guy. Not once did I say I enjoyed the later seasons. I despise them wholeheartedly. Everything about them. Every destroyed character arc, every dead plotline, everything. Not everything needs to be an argument. I expressed an idea and yes, it's my own theory or head cannon, and you went all TDS on me. Why?
Yep the Bells is where almost every character arc ends and it was so bad. Arya doesn’t finish her list, Dany betrays her morals, Jaime goes back to Cersei, the hound goes back to trivial bs, Cersei dies by bricks. This episode is the nail in the coffin and the iron throne is them trying to fix it 😤
11:20 Because literally everyone did their jobs flawlessly EXCEPT the writers. (Also idk who was behind the lightsaber fire breathing but that was not the move either)
I don't understand how Blackwater is ranked 1. It is a great episode I can't deny but as far as battle episodes it's quite weak in terms of production quality (there is no special awareness) and it has serious pacing issues.
D & D said that the fight between Sansa & Arya was real & Sansa was going to have Arya killed. Sansa told Bran what she was going to do, he then told her that it was Littlefinger orchestrating everything so the outcome changed.
@@vinogr00nko93 Exactly! In the books Sansa despises her little sister, bullies her with her friend, make fun of her, doesn't wonder what happened to her while she's in KL, then starts to become a product of Cersei & Littlefinger, helping Littlefinger kill her little cousin sweet Robin so that she could marry the next heir to the Vale, but the show didn't want to portray her as evil. D & D changed too much for the sake of making characters seem good and the good ones, they made seem cruel. Makes no sense to me.
Beyond the Wall should be #73. I still remember the immersion being broke when the idea to catch a wight came up. I froze, paused for 10 seconds and asked whut?!?!? That was definitely the point of no return with the shows redemption and it shows.
Man, the reflexions you made about Beyond the wall were spot on. As much as i wanted to love that episode, it felt too much like fan service and, like you said, a Marvel movie. Jon's decision to stay behind pissed me off cause it was useless and dumb and he was right next to the damn dragon lol
A testament of the strength of the first half of the show is that engrosses you to the point where you almost forget about the disaster it’s careening towards. On rewatch, I really did not like the excessive torcher porn of the Ramsey scenes. It was such overkill, with a lot of screen time wasted on beating into our heads that the guy is evil. You can feel the writers steering into the show’s edgy reputation in an inorganic way.
My worst for me will always be The Long Night. I had so much hope and was super excited to finally see The Night King vs Jon Snow. Waiting years to finally see their battle unfold. Only to not see anything for an hour and Arya to have some goofy superhero moment. After that episode finished. I couldn’t even give a shit about what came after
Interesting up until the point where they wholly handwave Dany’s Fire and Blood persona as “minor” issues, then act wholly perplexed after dismissing the context supporting this outcome… after opening this video by claiming they are fine with resolutions as long as they are thematicallly relevant (of which this absolutely was)… but thanks for the laugh.
Yeah, I love when haters pontificate how they 'have no problem with the ending only how they got there...' or how the final season 'destroyed character development', then when you look at actual complaints you see it's 90% complaining about lame-ass fan-service stuff completely contrary to the spirit of GOT not being included like Jon and the NK not having a duel or Cersei not suffering enough.
Now that I’m reading the books (I’m halfway through ASOS), I totally understand why book readers didn’t love the show as much as I did. Had the show runners just followed the books more closely, they could’ve made the show on their own and let GRRM stay home and finish TWOW and ADOS. The show could’ve lasted YEARS longer, ended better (however GRRM actually intends), not had the massive fall from grace it took at the end…AND we’d actually HAVE the last 2 books to read!
That is one hard cope, blaming the showrunners for GRRM sluggishness in finishing the series. You might want to reserve your judgment until after you finish AFFC and ADWD. Don't get me wrong, I still love the books to death and definitely intend to read whatever GRRM publishes, but the drop in quality in those last two books is evident and they were released in 2005 and 2011! The plain fact is that GRRM made several questionable choices past the third book and is now stuck with an overgrown mess featuring dozens of dangling plot-threads he doesn't know how to resolve. None of this is the showrunner's fault.
I'm so, so very happy that House of the Dragon is keeping this world alive, hopefully someday we can get a reboot for GOT with actual good writing snd D&D kept FAR away from it
22:58 Mmmh, I surely wonder why this part of Jaimie‘s story was so good? Couldn’t possibly be because it was lifted from the books while pretty much the rest of season 6 was show original, right?
1st three seasons were as perfect as it gets on TV, and the 4th one came really close to that. 5th season started to show cracks with some inconsistent pacing, plotlines not really going anywhere and characters starting to not act as themselves - and the 6th one, for the same reasons, was already quite bad. The last two season were both empty and appaling, as they felt as watching any mediocre soap opera piece, just within GoT settings & sceneries.
The show killed off Barristan Selmy when he is still very much alive in the books, which is honestly the worst part about the episode sons of the harpy
Kill The Boy at 62😂😂. That was a big shock for me. S7E7 is literally a top 5 worst episode in the show and its above this. I really don't get it. Castle Black is soo good in S5E5. Winterfell isn't bad. Dany burns a master. Missandei and Grey Worm. Its genuinely the most underrated episode for me
I could not agree more about Beyond the wall. The entire time I was watching that episode made my will to keep watching the show wilt away. (I did keep watching though because of sunk cost fallacy) Every single decision the characters made was mind numbingly stupid, the Dragons crossing the wall was completely lore breaking, the apparent time dilation was jawdropping, and the dialogue was childish. Not even the music could save that trainwreck!
The Long Night was, by far, my least favorite episode. I still am in utter disbelief that they chose to end the ENTIRE White Walker story thread in literally 1 episode. How the fuck do you come to that conclusion as the writers of this show? You sat down and thought, “the biggest, most climatic showdown in the entire show? Yeah we can do that in about 90 minutes, no problem.” The sheer fucking hubris.
The worst episode in the series by far. They royally fucked up the white walkers and honestly making them generic ass zombies was a shitty decision. D and D being scared of fantasy elements killed the show.
What the hell do you mean 'end in one episode'... how can something end in more than one episode? There was always gonna be SOME episode where the NK story is resolved, even if it could have been the very last one. And to simply discount that horrific 80 minute slog, one of the biggest fighting sequences in TV history like this is the 'sheer f-ing hubris' you're talking about. Finally, where did you get the idea that GOT is about 'climactic showdowns'? If you want that go watch LOTR or some Avengers movie or something. GOT is not about some lameass plot-armored good guys defeating the overpowering but nerfed baddies, but about people making choices. Arya chose courage and to embrace going all out on the NK. NK chose to be complacent right before his moment of triumph. Cersei chose violence. Dany chose even bigger violence. Jon chose duty over love.... that's the heart of the story, not some third-rate showdown, the kind you've seen countless times before in far lesser works.
@@SerbAtheist Oh fuck off that's literally what GoT became in the later seasons big budget showdowns with no sense of realism or focus on character. The Long Night is a 1 hour and 20-minute shit show of bad lighting plot Armour and teleporting characters. And he's talking About the Long Night only lasting one episode, ya know the supposed longest winter in history. Did you even watch the show?
@@SerbAtheist Don't be intellectually dishonest by being too pedantic here, sure the true end of something takes place in a moment, if you are speaking in the most technical terms. Obviously my comment criticizes the decision to make "The Long Night," previously described as a night that lasted a generation, a singular battle that also just so happened to be the very first real battle against the White Walkers. The threat that was meant to loom over the Iron Throne and the futile struggles that accompany it was swiftly and easily dealt with in a single night, in a neat hour or so of screentime. That's all we get, no protracted winter that was meant to be the worst in history, no additional knowledge of the foe, no new action from the foe, no clever plans from our heroes, no inventive ways to battle such a unique foe, no Azor Ahai, no lightbringer, no additional knowledge of the lord of light, no additional knowledge of the Old Gods, no additional knowledge of the Children of the Forest, no additional knowledge of The Three-Eyed Raven, no additional knowledge of Melisandre, the list just goes on and on. The amount of dropped plotlines that occurred as a result of this tragedy of an episode is criminal. But since you want to get into the weeds lets talk about "one of the biggest fighting sequences in TV history." So many have covered this in much better detail but just some of the most glaring examples of absolutely piss poor writing in regards to the fight include trebuchets in front of the infantry, they being fired a handful of times and then stopping for no reason, sending your light cavalry into a headlong charge at a foe you cannot even see, arraying all the foot in front of the castle gates (as well as the trebuchets) instead of using the castle as your greatest weapon, taking the horde of wights on sword to sword even though common weapons should be near useless against them, not immediately using your other greatest weapons, the dragons, to burn the wights, doing it late only to do it a few times and then stop for whatever reason, this list goes on and on too. For being "one of the biggest fighting sequences in TV history", it also ranks among the most embarrassing due to it's complete idiocy and that's not even getting into the most ridiculous instances of plot armor ever seen on screen. "GOT is not about some lameass plot-armored good guys defeating the overpowering but nerfed baddies" I can't believe you wrote this unironically in defense of this episode. If you truly do not see the irony of your statement here, then you are watching a different show and I'd assert that it is you who has on the blinders in that case, not me. It's also deeply unsound to open your argument by admirably declaring it "one of the biggest fighting sequences in TV history" and then go on to lecture me about how GoT isn't about "some third-rate showdown." That is exactly what this episode that you are defending came down to, you admit that in your opening and then you condemn such a thing so which is it? Which side of your mouth is the one that speaks what you truly believe?
As much as i like the character, the Hound either should have atayed dead, or have been killed beyond the wall. His character added nothing to the story after being healed. It would have made more time for other characters to have better stories
I think danerys burning kings landing can be excused I just think they could've handled it better. I think alot of people forget that it was a slow decent and she kind of just snapped and became like cersei since danerys arrived in the 7 kingdoms she wasn't a very good person she was angry and willing to do anything ro get what she wants then before the seige her advisors betray her (they see what's happening) and misandrai or however it's spelled gets killed she's tired and angry by this point and everyones telling her to show mercy so she snaps. It could've been handled better sure but I think it made sense
How could you put The Iron Throne last place? Don't you know no one has a better story than Bran The Broken?
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I hate how Season 7 ended with King’s Landing being covered in snow and winter officially arriving just for it to look like summer in Season 8….
they kinda forgot
a scorching hot summer towards the end..
You've never been in winter in Dalmatia. Temperatures can go up to a sunny 15C, but you can also have palm trees covered in ice.
D&D are st0pid
Killing night king = eternal summer? I would die
How sad is it that the finale is the worst episode. The worst part is that the show is structured to heavily rely on the ending which makes the good seasons much harder to enjoy when you rewatch them
It's the exact same as Dexter, where the first 4 seasons are some of the best ever made. The difference is that D&D didn't adapt a LOT of book stuff. The Dexter books are finished, yet seasons 6-9 are still a stain on it.
Agree one hundred percent
Honestly, I think The Bells is worse.
@@MarkHogan994naw not worst than the iron throne at least the bells was entertaining in a dumb fun kind of way.
When talking about GOT I always say
S1 - S4 = Perfect television
S5 - S6 = Disappointing by GOT standards but has some great moments/episodes
S7 - S8 = AWFUL
I like a few moments in S7, but I largely agree
yup, pretty much
@@thegoldman25 It's funny how for years I could confidently say that my fav tv show ever was GOT and now it doesn't sound as great to say. I now have to say that the first half of GOT is my fav television ever and despite how it was ruined later on I still think it is.
There are a handful of moments in 8. Like 3-5. My favorite is Jaime knighting Brienne.
Imo anyone who disagrees with that cannot trusted, I personally don’t like season 5 or 6 even by normal TV standards, as the majority of the season is pretty lame and I don’t think having a good half hour out of a bad 8 hours means much
It's amazing that this show's legacy is that so many have absolutely zero interest in watching it again after how it ended.
I'll still rewatch. Seasons 1-4 I'm engaged, and love it. Then I spend the rest of it laughing at how horrible the writing is
@@TheLazarusOperationcomon dude u dont like the "AWESOME convos with things "Bad Poosay" & "Finger in da bum"😂😂 best writing EVA😂I know George didnt have any input after s4 but we went from Jamies monolouge in the bath with Brienne whcih is incredible to "You need a good girl with a bad poosay" lol criminal writing
@gavomorg762 The sad part is that EVERYTHING but the writing is still great. I feel bad for the production crew, and cast.
Just rewatched again. I usually skip a lot after season 4. But yeah, watching 1-4 is watching a masterpiece.
I rewatch S1 through S4 every once in awhile. It gets bad quite fast after that though
I haven't been able to rewatch GoT since Season 8 ended. I was heavily invested emotionally in the series after watching it week after week for years since the first season released. I spent countless hours theorizing online and fangirling over things with others.
It genuinely felt like I was betrayed by season 8. Like all of the time I spent convincing my friends and family to watch the show and stuff was for nothing. I'll never be able to watch this show all the way through again.
I can still watch it, I'm more fortunate than most
Same!
I feel this way exactly! It felt like a relationship going up in flames, traumatizing everyone along the way. I loved it so much. I grew up with the books and was so happy when the adaptation was so good in the beginning… I can't bring myself to watch any of it again. It just reactivates the trauma. And I will never not be angry about what they did to the show and the story.
Same. I can't bear to watch the good seasons knowing how it will all fall apart.
@@thegoldman25Glad to hear it my man wish I could say the same
The saving grace of season 5 is easily Jon and everything happening at the Wall.
100%
Those were still great moments. Personally I think (spoilers ig?) Stannis' arc would also fall into it, if it wouldn't have ended with the final episode and abandoned afterwards. Would've been a way more interesting approach if he won the battle of Winterfell and truly had to deal with the consequences of the decisions before
I wonder what will be in Worst episodes 😂
it’s definitely gonna be all of S4
“She’s muh queen.”
@@axelthegreat3895 season 4 was good though. It's took more from the books than the last two seasons did.
I bet it's the one they pushed for an Emmy
@@kdusel1991the last episode of season 4 was bad through. The scene with Bran was terrible, and Tyrion killing Tywin over him calling Shae a whore make no sense. He just killed her, she betrayed him… and she was a whore! Tyrion shouldn’t care. It does if they are talking about Tysha like they do in the books
Did my man talk about ‘The Climb’ without mentioning Littlefinger’s speech?
I was thinking the same thing.
He also didn’t talk about Olenna’s death for the queens justice either
The one thing that remained stellar, even as the writing quality nose dived, was the acting. The actors never stopped giving it their all. More power to them!
But I'll bet they looked at their scripts during read-throughs for 7&8 and said WTF is THIS?!
I can finally live again after waiting the entire week for this video
Hope you enjoyed it!
I NEVER understood the contrived conflict between Arya and Sansa. That was so dumb.
Sister shit. Lol!!
Watchers on the Wall is my goat
A very glidus take
Me too !!
Mid episode
I was so hype for the Long Night. I was almost certain it was going to be incredible with Miguel directing it and (what seemed to be) the final sendoff of our characters in episode 2. Shame.
Me too. The cavalry charge looked spectacular, But even as I watched it, I was wondering what in the hell they were doing. The rest of it was so bad.
Jon should've known to make as grand of an obstacle as he could, like multiple walls and fortifications ect. It seemed like the fortifications at hard Holm last like half an hour altogether. You'd think he'd know winterfells walls wasn't gonna work much longer than that. They also should've known the idea of a fire wall won't work as bran saw whitewalkers eventually cross that fire wall the children of the forest made north of the wall. If you were going to use a fire wall to slow them down surely it makes more practical sense to light the firewall before the battle commences rather than last minute and having to rely on melisandre? All logic seems to be out of the window towards the end of this show.
The Bells needs to be lower. It's pretty amazing that one of the greatest shows ever made managed to put the last 4 eps of the show at the bottom of best episodes list. Biggest tank job in entertainment history.
Top 7 imo (seven because it’s fitting):
1) 3x09: Red wedding. Enough said.
2) 4x09: My favorite battle from the show by far and amazing dialogues in the prelude.
3) 1x07: Not an episode I see commonly mentioned in discussions about the best ever but I think it should be in the conversation. The tension in the final confrontation in the throne room is so well crafted, it still gets me after having watched the episode over ten times already.
4) 2x09: Same reasons as 4x09. I just like Watchers on the wall a bit more than Blackwater.
5) 4x02: The big battles get all the spotlight and they were great, but dialogues are not to be underestimated. I loved everyone here (Tyrion and Joffrey; Oberyn, Ellaria and Tywin, Cersei and especially Tyrion and Shae) plus the highlight of Joffrey dying. Whats not to love? And it set up the best season of the show.
6) 1x09: Having joined the GoT party much later I knew that favorite characters are apparently always at risk, so I expected Ned to die. People who watched it in 2011 may have been more surprised but it is still a great episode of course.
7) 6x09: Tbh it may be higher than it objectively deserves, it certainly doesn’t deserve No1 on IMDB. It just felt so good after all the suffering (meant positively) GoT put us through to leave an episode with a triumphant feeling and it is certainly a spectacular episode, maybe the best looking one overall.
Flop 7:
1) 8x05: Aside from the Arya-Bloodhound dynamic I hated everything. You would assume they would get a couple more interactions right just by accident but no.
2) 8x06: I can see this having last place too, since the whole dragon pit fiasco is the worst the show got but the first half I think is actually somewhat decent on its own. It only works if we pretend to like what came before but the mistakes were not made in this episode.
3) 8x04: I barely remember what happened exactly, just that it was horrible which isn’t a good sign.
4) 7x05: While I agree with the criticism of teleportation in season 7 in general, this is the only episode in which it is so bad that I cannot look past it. They just weren’t able to have the human plot and the white walkers plot coexist, so they assigned each one part of the season and this episode was the extremely rushed transition.
5) Foolish plan, shrouding darkness etc. I think, like most, that the humans should have lost the battle but even if they win it: at least have it be painful, we had just five character deaths. Episode 2 actually had a nice melancholic feel to it because you thought that all those friend groups are about to be destroyed in a disastrous battle but then almost nothing happened.
6) 7x07: Just really boring for a final episode of a season.
7) 7x06: At the first watch, the tension was there for me, so they did some things right. However the believability just isn’t there, which works in some franchises but not in the grounded GoT which was ultra realistic for 4 and mostly realistic for 6 seasons.
A flop 7 works especially well because I think those are exactly the only bad episodes. So just roughly 10% of the show, the rest ranges from good to masterpiece. I personally still like GoT (rewatches only include 6 seasons of course) but it is so sad how much damage those handful of episodes caused.
not a bad list
Good list
Dark wings dark words should be ranked better- the whole scene with Kat revealing her hatred for a motherless child she should’ve won an award for that just my two cents
I'm sorry, I know it's your opinion in the end, but putting battle of the bastards, and the winds of winter above even a single episode from season 1 is an unpardonable crime.
completely agree, the writing consistency of season 1 is unmatched
You need deliverance at this point fool. I doubt you even know what an HBO subscription is
Nope. Two of the most riveting episodes of the entire series.
@@MaxwellAerialPhotography shut up, they're the best episodes of the show
@@Movie_Nerd1 They are two episodes that literally do not make any sense in any aspect. It is 100% pure spectacle and because the spectacle looks so good and feels so exciting, a lot of audience members turn off their brains as a result. If you actually understand the world, the lore, as well as basic logic, it becomes obvious that the last two episodes of season 6 are a completely illogical mess.
I spent like a third of the video wondering why I hadn’t seen the season 7 finale on the list yet lol. It should’ve at least been lower than the Bear and the Maiden Fair imo. Great video though.
Can’t believe anyone can put
that awful episode so high lol. It’s in the top 10 worst GoT episodes easily.
Supercuts delight worshiper spotted again wtf 🙄
S1-4 : Masterpiece, One of the Peak TV show
S5-6 : Good, Not Bad
S7-8 : Very Bad
Top 10 Best GOT episode (my opinion)
1. The Watchers on the Wall
2. The Rains of Castamere
3. The Laws of Gods and Men
4. Blackwater
5. The Winds of Winter
6. Kissed By Fire
7. Fire and Blood
8. You Win or You Die
9. Baelor
10. And Now His Watch Is Ended
Honestly when I first watched all of game of thrones in its entirety after binging the first 4 seasons it hypnotized me into believing seasons 5 and 6 were good because of the overall aura of the show but now the more I think about it the more I dislike the last 4 seasons
5-6 where flowed but good
7-8 are in there own category
@@hassanbadrek2726 the overall vibe of the show and the way I felt like I was their in Westeros blinded me to how disgraceful season 7 and 8 was in how it assassinated all of these character arcs so I finished the show thinking dam that was just ok
Season 8 is true Thrones. A shotgun to the audience's expectations. Everything before is just child's play.
@@SerbAtheist yeah no one where expecting it to kill the show
You are just a sheep who hear this idiots complain about stuff that don't exist and I doubt you even watched the show. If I make a video complaining about breaking bad season 5 being the worst season because Walter white makes a star wars lazer gun that automatically destroys his enemies in the last episode felina would that make any sense??
Jaime TOTALLY cared about innocent people so, even on the very first viewing, when he told Tyrion he didn’t, I yelled at my TV! “WHAT?!”
Did you yell at the TV when he told Brienne he was a terrible person when he was leaving her? Jaime has ALWAYS self-deprecated himself due to low worth, which is why he adopts this aloof persona to deflect any praise coming his way, which made the fact that Tyrion saw right through it and his final confession all the more poignant.
The fact people can't recognize an obvious example of talking sh*t really shows how their basic comprehension tanked in the final few episodes.
The night lands on 65? Below episodes from later seasons? Come on man. I understand that this ep could be uneventful, but there are still plenty of dialogues and interactions that are joy to watch.
Kid dragon and the wolf is top 10 ep. Get over it
@@gandalfthegamer4505 pathetic
@@gandalfthegamer4505 OH HELL NAW
@@smallbudoo yes you daario fan
@@LobsterOfDeath no u kid
Oberyn telling Tyrion he’ll be his champion alone should make that episode higher.
i love how almost each of these rankings start with you saying “most of it was boring, but the plot up north is what puts this so high for me” 😂😂
Somewhere in between ig…I still think there is some bias towards big moments and spectacle than overall narrative and subtle yet important plot building which was sometimes relegated as ‘boring’. Nevertheless, very enjoyable video and thanks for putting the effort to do such a ranking!
Battle of the Bastards at 8 is a joke.
Yeah deserves way lower.
Yeah.... it should be way lower
@@Dystopie173 yeah.
@@Rash23215 yeah
Yeah it should be way higher
I feared your ranking because I mostly dont agree with you and you did not disappoint. Also as I watch your video I think you like spectacle more than the story and some of your reasoning would suggest that you should demote some of the episodes.
This is the single most interesting video ranking these episodes that I’ve ever seen
I would definitely have some of the later seasons episodes lower on the list, I understand that they have a lot of memorable moments, but I think that the episodes should be judged as the whole package and not just the best moments, and also I can't ignore poor writing just because the other aspects are well done
Depends if how much of these poor writing affected the episode
Glidus would be proud good sir
Glidus would hate this ranking xd
of Battle of the Bastards in top10? Doubt it.
@czoborarpi I may have worded it badly. I disagree with more than half of this list, but at the same time, I have the upmost respect to anyone who puts this much time into a video. Dude likely spent at least 50 hours if not more making the video
@@TheLazarusOperation thats fair, I know these videos take a lot of time to make.
I'm only at number 69 on the list but The Bells not being mentioned yet means it's already way too high on the list.
did you make it to 67?
What about Tommens suicide? For me it was a very powerfull moment. It shows how the concequences of Cercei's actions lead up to her destroying what she loves most, her last living child, but you didnt even mention it. I also think it was executed perfectly. No music, just distant screams and cries, Tommen looking almost emotionless, he just puts his crown down and steps out of the window without hesitation. Gave me chills watching it.
No way you put battle of the bastards and the winds of winter that high 💀
You must be tweaking on meth animal
Yeah, I feel like when people rank those two specific episodes, they forget to watch anything other than the highlight scenes
@@Blurple0 explain how those episodes are bad because all I see is a sheep who watched Supercuts delight and spreading bs
@@Movie_Nerd1you're so pathetic, you can't handle anyone complaining about this episode? Lmaoo get a grip.
Battle of the Bastards severely overrated
Average Supercuts delight worshiper
Battle of the bastards is the best tv battle ever. You and Supercuts delight can't change that FACT
@@Movie_Nerd1 first: it's a opinion not a fact. Second: Visually its good but the logic is awful. It's somewhat of a good battle but the plot armour and sansa saving the day after being the reason jon almost died because she did not tell him about the knights of the vale Was awful.
@@Movie_Nerd1 the battle of the wall and blackwater were better
Agreed. Visually it's fantastic but thematically it's stupid.
Going back through the series a second time all the way through with my wife…hodor’s climactic demise GOT MY ASS. I was streaming tears even though I had already seen the episode before. The music just really got me.
When Tyrion says Bran The Broken I started laughing so hard. I had given up long before that but that was the icing on the cake. At least show bran was evil Brenden rivers all along playing the long game but nope.
He goes from I can’t be lord of anything to why do you think I came all this way.
The worst thing the show ever did was ruin Jamie’s character with ONE SENTENCE.
night lands at 65 is fucking crazy
I tought Season 7 was good, until Season 8 came out. Then we realized how it was a waste of 7 episodes. Could've used some of it to further flesh out S8 stories. For example, the Knight King battle should've been at least 2 episodes if not 3.
There was a lot about the top 12 that I disagreed with, but having Blackwater at no 1 means all is forgiven. It just goes to show that even if most of season 2 isn't as excellent as the other 3 early seasons for the most part, the climax makes it all worth it. Davos, Stannis, Sandor (show version), and Tyrion are all among my favorite characters period and this is their episode. Even Tywin gets a small spotlight at the end!
I concur. I hated half of how the episodes were arranged here, but Blackwater on number 1 is something I thoroughly agree with.
BlackWater overrated. IT should be around 8th not first
For me the episode belong to cersei.....
@Rash23215 She plays an important role in it for sure, she's just not one of my personal favorites. She's still top 10 imo, but House Lannister alone is stacked with some of the best characters period.
@@malmasterson3890 yeah i get it bro..... female characters are not ur thing.... u r into sucking off men.... no problem
when you said "beyond the wall" is when got stopped feeling like got, I literally said out loud this man is spitting facts. would personally be at the very bottom for me
FINALLY! Finally, Blackwater gets the #1 ranking spot it deserves. I have seen many lists and Blackwater is always somewhere between 2-5. I was a week to week watcher from the very first season and when I saw Blackwater I was stunned. Everything about it was perfect. I watched every single episode thereafter, and though they came close (WOW, ROC, BOB), I never thought anything surpassed the almighty Blackwater!.....ps- The Bear and the Maiden Fair should be much high than 50.
Great commentary! Nice to know that Tywin was your fave character, out of so many major players. He was mine, too! Powerful acting!!
Glad you enjoyed!
I've always wondered why the rape of Sansa was so surprising. It doesn't happen to her in A Dance With Dragons but it DOES happen to Jayne Pool who is Sansas best friend and is disguised as Arya. Even further, it's MUCH worse in the book because Theon (Reek) is forced to participate... It's messed up, but D and D had been blending characters stories from the very first season. This wasn't a random SA scene that they just made up.
No way you put a Season 8 filler episode so high, if it was any other season maybe but this episode in the scope of the time constraint is criminal. This should be nowhere near the middle..
@@rtellez19891 that episode can't get punished for the others in the season though. It wasn't a horrible episode. It wasn't great, but you didn't watch that and feel sick afterwards.
Putting oathbreaker right above the kingsroad is crazy
Note that all those season 1 episodes are SO great because they’re (for the most part) STRAIGHT outta the first book, AGOT.
No way should The Night Lands be lower on the list than any episode from S7 or S8
Supercuts delight worshiper spotted
@@Movie_Nerd1 idk what that is but sure buddy
@@fracturededits6778 yeah you do
@@Movie_Nerd1 ok movie nerd 🤣
@@fracturededits6778 good Supercuts delight worshiper
I preferred the second actor who played Daario too!
1:02:54 “make your head explode” I see what you did there 😂
Hahaha thanks for noticing
You know a show is great then the worst episode is the finale 💀
That makes it worse not better🎉❤
Wow, amazing amount of work to rank every episode!
The one I’d nitpick a little is The Climb - Littlefinger’s “chaos is a ladder” speech wasn’t mentioned, or the death of Roz, which I really think clues the audience in to just how ruthless Littlefinger is.
GoT ranking? Yes, please.
Algorithm feed me; I feed algorithm
Supercuts delights step cousin. Those who actually watched the show like me don't give a f. The best episodes of GOT would always be
#1. The winds of winter
#2. The Battle of the bastards
#3. The Rains of castermere
#4. Hardhome
#5. The Door
#6. The spoils of war
#7. Blackwater
#8. Baelor
#9. The Children
#10. The Watchers on the wall.
that's just... sad, pathetic really
@@vinogr00nko93 cry about it Supercuts delight worshiper
@@vinogr00nko93 Cry about it Supercuts delight worshiper. When you grow up you'll learn to have your own opinions and stop being a sheep and don't even bother replying because you don't deserve another response from me
People who put Hardhome in their top 10 don't even remember what happened in the first half of that episode before the battle. Same for The Spoils of War. Outside of Hodor, The Door isn't even a good episode.
@@LFC_Fan23 same for BotB and WoW and the Door, all the episodes are remembered by their short explosive moments and people just collectively forget that they're all an hour long not the 5 minute clips to watch over and over again
Funny enough, no cap, we have the same first place episode. After many rewatches season 2 is my favorite season. And if that's my favorite season, needless to say blackwater is my favorite episode.
Badass fighting, stanis most of all, Lannister tricks, tywin and loris leading in a Calvary charge saving the day, cersei looking good lol, Tyrion bravery, bronn jokes, sansa side comment-ing joffery before battle because the north remembers, everything.
AND the Lannister song! 🦁
Sure battle, the bastards and winds of winter are cool all but the inconsistencies the plot holes and the plot armor make it so hard to put it in the top 10. Especially when there are so many great episodes to choose from.
I wonder when this would happen. I’m just so happy now
The season 7 finale is one of the worst episodes of the show IMO. All of the dialogue contradicts itself when compared to past seasons. Cersei not killing Tyrion, Jon being mind bogglingly dumb, everything that happens at Winterfell. God that episode was stupid
I've seen a lot of these videos and most of them point out the fake beef between Aria and Sansa as being unnecessary. But, the thing about that is they know Littlefinger is always listening so they have to always pretend to be at each others throat for the plot to work.
Um.... No
@@wisdommanari6701 you're right. You have totally proven me wrong with your intellect.
that’s the most insane cope i’ve ever heard. GOT season 5-8 defenders are on a level of delusion that is unparalleled. when did the show EVER allude to that lmaoooooo. this is just a headcanon you’ve made up, i know this bcos when i first watched the show i had to do it constantly in the last 4 seasons. rewatch the show & just admit to yourself that it’s garbage after season four my guy
to be fair there are a few good moments in s5&6 that were still being adapted but for the most part the writing took a huge plummet. by the end of season 6 it’s the same terrible hollywood shlock writing as s7&8
@@ImIndavyjoneslocker to be fair, my guy. Not once did I say I enjoyed the later seasons. I despise them wholeheartedly. Everything about them. Every destroyed character arc, every dead plotline, everything. Not everything needs to be an argument. I expressed an idea and yes, it's my own theory or head cannon, and you went all TDS on me. Why?
Worst episode is easily the bells
not for me
Yep the Bells is where almost every character arc ends and it was so bad. Arya doesn’t finish her list, Dany betrays her morals, Jaime goes back to Cersei, the hound goes back to trivial bs, Cersei dies by bricks. This episode is the nail in the coffin and the iron throne is them trying to fix it 😤
In the books Jon really wants the lordship of the winterfell, that scenes says a lot of how wrong the characterization in series was
11:20 Because literally everyone did their jobs flawlessly EXCEPT the writers. (Also idk who was behind the lightsaber fire breathing but that was not the move either)
I don't understand how Blackwater is ranked 1. It is a great episode I can't deny but as far as battle episodes it's quite weak in terms of production quality (there is no special awareness) and it has serious pacing issues.
D & D said that the fight between Sansa & Arya was real & Sansa was going to have Arya killed. Sansa told Bran what she was going to do, he then told her that it was Littlefinger orchestrating everything so the outcome changed.
damn maybe instaid of "saying this" they shoulld've y'know, PUT IT IN THE SHOW
@@vinogr00nko93 Exactly! In the books Sansa despises her little sister, bullies her with her friend, make fun of her, doesn't wonder what happened to her while she's in KL, then starts to become a product of Cersei & Littlefinger, helping Littlefinger kill her little cousin sweet Robin so that she could marry the next heir to the Vale, but the show didn't want to portray her as evil. D & D changed too much for the sake of making characters seem good and the good ones, they made seem cruel. Makes no sense to me.
Beyond the Wall should be #73. I still remember the immersion being broke when the idea to catch a wight came up. I froze, paused for 10 seconds and asked whut?!?!? That was definitely the point of no return with the shows redemption and it shows.
Battle of the bastard and the winds of winter being in the top ten invalidates the entire list
wrong.
The long night being 2nd to last compromises this entire list
At 27:55 I for a second pictured a love triangle between Jon Snow, Ygritte, and Orell where Ygritte was the third wheel
Man, the reflexions you made about Beyond the wall were spot on. As much as i wanted to love that episode, it felt too much like fan service and, like you said, a Marvel movie. Jon's decision to stay behind pissed me off cause it was useless and dumb and he was right next to the damn dragon lol
Am I the only one who loves season 6?
It’s definitely my favorite season
It's enjoyable but has some serious flaws.
It had great moments, but other than that its disappointing
It's my second favorite after season 4
Yup, it's a banger.
A testament of the strength of the first half of the show is that engrosses you to the point where you almost forget about the disaster it’s careening towards. On rewatch, I really did not like the excessive torcher porn of the Ramsey scenes. It was such overkill, with a lot of screen time wasted on beating into our heads that the guy is evil. You can feel the writers steering into the show’s edgy reputation in an inorganic way.
Just wondering,do you read the books?
reading them right now!
The Rains of Castamere became HBO's Ozymandiaz. The Breaking Bad episode.
My worst for me will always be The Long Night. I had so much hope and was super excited to finally see The Night King vs Jon Snow. Waiting years to finally see their battle unfold. Only to not see anything for an hour and Arya to have some goofy superhero moment. After that episode finished. I couldn’t even give a shit about what came after
The Bells is ironically one of my favorite episodes due to how genuinely awful the writing is. It’s pathetically bad
I love how he used the term “offending me” to jsut describe the bad epsidoes
I wonder how many season 8 episodes will be in the bottom 5
about 7-8 :D
Amazingly, I think we're point for point with at least the top 30.
Interesting up until the point where they wholly handwave Dany’s Fire and Blood persona as “minor” issues, then act wholly perplexed after dismissing the context supporting this outcome… after opening this video by claiming they are fine with resolutions as long as they are thematicallly relevant (of which this absolutely was)… but thanks for the laugh.
Yeah, I love when haters pontificate how they 'have no problem with the ending only how they got there...' or how the final season 'destroyed character development', then when you look at actual complaints you see it's 90% complaining about lame-ass fan-service stuff completely contrary to the spirit of GOT not being included like Jon and the NK not having a duel or Cersei not suffering enough.
Now that I’m reading the books (I’m halfway through ASOS), I totally understand why book readers didn’t love the show as much as I did. Had the show runners just followed the books more closely, they could’ve made the show on their own and let GRRM stay home and finish TWOW and ADOS. The show could’ve lasted YEARS longer, ended better (however GRRM actually intends), not had the massive fall from grace it took at the end…AND we’d actually HAVE the last 2 books to read!
That is one hard cope, blaming the showrunners for GRRM sluggishness in finishing the series.
You might want to reserve your judgment until after you finish AFFC and ADWD. Don't get me wrong, I still love the books to death and definitely intend to read whatever GRRM publishes, but the drop in quality in those last two books is evident and they were released in 2005 and 2011! The plain fact is that GRRM made several questionable choices past the third book and is now stuck with an overgrown mess featuring dozens of dangling plot-threads he doesn't know how to resolve. None of this is the showrunner's fault.
I'm so, so very happy that House of the Dragon is keeping this world alive, hopefully someday we can get a reboot for GOT with actual good writing snd D&D kept FAR away from it
Love your ranking!
22:58 Mmmh, I surely wonder why this part of Jaimie‘s story was so good? Couldn’t possibly be because it was lifted from the books while pretty much the rest of season 6 was show original, right?
Glidus coded
Stannis burning his daughter is my worst outside S8. They ruined nearly every character in the show if not all of them.
1st three seasons were as perfect as it gets on TV, and the 4th one came really close to that. 5th season started to show cracks with some inconsistent pacing, plotlines not really going anywhere and characters starting to not act as themselves - and the 6th one, for the same reasons, was already quite bad. The last two season were both empty and appaling, as they felt as watching any mediocre soap opera piece, just within GoT settings & sceneries.
Pretty good list, but man, Battle of the Bastards was probably the death of the series being special.
Thought i was the only that didnt like almost every plot line is season 5
The show killed off Barristan Selmy when he is still very much alive in the books, which is honestly the worst part about the episode sons of the harpy
Hey buddy, hate to tell ya but Bran will end up on the throne in the books too
And probably by the same way too
Kill The Boy at 62😂😂. That was a big shock for me. S7E7 is literally a top 5 worst episode in the show and its above this. I really don't get it. Castle Black is soo good in S5E5. Winterfell isn't bad. Dany burns a master. Missandei and Grey Worm. Its genuinely the most underrated episode for me
16:56 I had no idea Dr Kalu from The Good Doctor was also in GOT
Bro thats not Kalu lmao
@@Chiiyaam bro look up IMDb. It is
Wait,... this is not the glidus video?
I could not agree more about Beyond the wall. The entire time I was watching that episode made my will to keep watching the show wilt away. (I did keep watching though because of sunk cost fallacy)
Every single decision the characters made was mind numbingly stupid, the Dragons crossing the wall was completely lore breaking, the apparent time dilation was jawdropping, and the dialogue was childish. Not even the music could save that trainwreck!
The Long Night was, by far, my least favorite episode. I still am in utter disbelief that they chose to end the ENTIRE White Walker story thread in literally 1 episode. How the fuck do you come to that conclusion as the writers of this show? You sat down and thought, “the biggest, most climatic showdown in the entire show? Yeah we can do that in about 90 minutes, no problem.”
The sheer fucking hubris.
The worst episode in the series by far. They royally fucked up the white walkers and honestly making them generic ass zombies was a shitty decision. D and D being scared of fantasy elements killed the show.
What the hell do you mean 'end in one episode'... how can something end in more than one episode? There was always gonna be SOME episode where the NK story is resolved, even if it could have been the very last one. And to simply discount that horrific 80 minute slog, one of the biggest fighting sequences in TV history like this is the 'sheer f-ing hubris' you're talking about.
Finally, where did you get the idea that GOT is about 'climactic showdowns'? If you want that go watch LOTR or some Avengers movie or something. GOT is not about some lameass plot-armored good guys defeating the overpowering but nerfed baddies, but about people making choices. Arya chose courage and to embrace going all out on the NK. NK chose to be complacent right before his moment of triumph. Cersei chose violence. Dany chose even bigger violence. Jon chose duty over love.... that's the heart of the story, not some third-rate showdown, the kind you've seen countless times before in far lesser works.
@@SerbAtheist Oh fuck off that's literally what GoT became in the later seasons big budget showdowns with no sense of realism or focus on character. The Long Night is a 1 hour and 20-minute shit show of bad lighting plot Armour and teleporting characters. And he's talking About the Long Night only lasting one episode, ya know the supposed longest winter in history. Did you even watch the show?
@@SerbAtheist Don't be intellectually dishonest by being too pedantic here, sure the true end of something takes place in a moment, if you are speaking in the most technical terms. Obviously my comment criticizes the decision to make "The Long Night," previously described as a night that lasted a generation, a singular battle that also just so happened to be the very first real battle against the White Walkers. The threat that was meant to loom over the Iron Throne and the futile struggles that accompany it was swiftly and easily dealt with in a single night, in a neat hour or so of screentime.
That's all we get, no protracted winter that was meant to be the worst in history, no additional knowledge of the foe, no new action from the foe, no clever plans from our heroes, no inventive ways to battle such a unique foe, no Azor Ahai, no lightbringer, no additional knowledge of the lord of light, no additional knowledge of the Old Gods, no additional knowledge of the Children of the Forest, no additional knowledge of The Three-Eyed Raven, no additional knowledge of Melisandre, the list just goes on and on. The amount of dropped plotlines that occurred as a result of this tragedy of an episode is criminal.
But since you want to get into the weeds lets talk about "one of the biggest fighting sequences in TV history." So many have covered this in much better detail but just some of the most glaring examples of absolutely piss poor writing in regards to the fight include trebuchets in front of the infantry, they being fired a handful of times and then stopping for no reason, sending your light cavalry into a headlong charge at a foe you cannot even see, arraying all the foot in front of the castle gates (as well as the trebuchets) instead of using the castle as your greatest weapon, taking the horde of wights on sword to sword even though common weapons should be near useless against them, not immediately using your other greatest weapons, the dragons, to burn the wights, doing it late only to do it a few times and then stop for whatever reason, this list goes on and on too. For being "one of the biggest fighting sequences in TV history", it also ranks among the most embarrassing due to it's complete idiocy and that's not even getting into the most ridiculous instances of plot armor ever seen on screen.
"GOT is not about some lameass plot-armored good guys defeating the overpowering but nerfed baddies" I can't believe you wrote this unironically in defense of this episode. If you truly do not see the irony of your statement here, then you are watching a different show and I'd assert that it is you who has on the blinders in that case, not me. It's also deeply unsound to open your argument by admirably declaring it "one of the biggest fighting sequences in TV history" and then go on to lecture me about how GoT isn't about "some third-rate showdown." That is exactly what this episode that you are defending came down to, you admit that in your opening and then you condemn such a thing so which is it? Which side of your mouth is the one that speaks what you truly believe?
I think you’ve ranked the iron throne too highly 😂. But otherwise great list. Understandably predictable top 10 but can’t argue against any of them.
Ironic, the only episode I liked from season 8 was Winterfell, #63, And it was a set up episode
As much as i like the character, the Hound either should have atayed dead, or have been killed beyond the wall. His character added nothing to the story after being healed. It would have made more time for other characters to have better stories
I think danerys burning kings landing can be excused I just think they could've handled it better. I think alot of people forget that it was a slow decent and she kind of just snapped and became like cersei since danerys arrived in the 7 kingdoms she wasn't a very good person she was angry and willing to do anything ro get what she wants then before the seige her advisors betray her (they see what's happening) and misandrai or however it's spelled gets killed she's tired and angry by this point and everyones telling her to show mercy so she snaps. It could've been handled better sure but I think it made sense
Her zig zagging to kill children is not excusable because she is tired.
Robb’s wife’s name was Talisa, pronounced Tuh-Le’-suh.