I’m considering rewatching GoT and am not sure how many seasons to skip.
I know that I’m watching 1-5 and that I’m skipping 8, but since it’s been a long time and my memory isn’t great, I’m kind of on the fence wrt 6 and 7.
Which seasons would you include, and why?
It depends somewhat on how you’re planning to watch it all. If you’re sailing the high seas or watching blurays you already bought years ago, just go until it starts to feel dumb again. But if you are going to pay real money or spend streaming subscription time, don’t watch any of it. Weiss and Benioff did such a bad job in handling the end that the entire series should be considered financially toxic. Not a penny, not a groat.
A better plan would be to listen to the audiobooks and hope that some residuals will help GRRM focus his ADHD long enough to finish another book while he’s still alive.
That last book is never coming
I know but there are two more left and the penultimate one just might make it.
1-4 are great, 5 and 6 are good, 7 was bad but could have been redeemed by a good ending, and 8 provided an ending that was worse than feared.
I’d still rewatch them all, but for the last 2 seasons I’d channel my inner Mystery Science Theater 3000.Honestly, all the way up to S08E02, then just pretend that everyone died in the battle of winterfell.
It did drop off a bit after S04, but it was still a good series after that.
A lot of people are hallucinating here. There were 5 seasons of GoT loosely based on the first five books of ASoIaF. They made a 6th season without having a book as a guide; it was okay but not good enough to continue the story. So they ended the show there while they were ahead. They didn’t want to become another stereotypical show that milked an audience with sub-par material.
Just 1-4
Correct
I did a rewatch last year and I think the best option is to just watch it all.
Season 1-4 are top tier. Season 5 is where the cracks start (Dorne adventures), but season 5 also has the benefit of being an ending of sorts (Jon dying). So stopping at 5 is an option.
Season 6 has a lot of great moments, Hold the Door Hodor, the destruction of the great Sept, the Battle of the Bastards and the Tower of Joy. So there is a lot to enjoy.
Season 7 is Dany finally arriving in Westeros and setting up everything in preparation for season 8. So if you’re watching this season, then you should also watch 8. If you want to imagine your own ending, then maybe stop before this season.
I think seasons 7 & 8 gives us a solid ending for Theon and Jorah. We get the knighting of Brienne. There are other storylines that have their moments, but some of it is unfortunate since we know it doesn’t go anywhere.
Tommen’s walk after the sept was one of my biggest WTF moments in the series
If you put any stock in IMDb ratings, this may be useful to evaluate each season: https://seriesgraph.com/show/1399-game-of-thrones
I bought seasons 1-6 on Blu Ray with the assumption that I would end a rewatch there. That was a few years ago, and I still haven’t done it though. It’s a good place to stop cuz that’s when Dany leaves Esos, Arya finished her House of Black and White stuff, and Jon’s story of the knights watch ends.
I’d skip both 7 and 8 personally, that’s about where I felt like I was forcing myself to watch
Everything else was pretty solid up to that point
I look forward to the day when there is a fan re edit of the show, hopefully the book ending is out by then… one can hope…
I guess I’m a sucker for zombies. I’d definitely dip my toes into 8 until the fight. As an action sequence, it’s pretty good. That or cut it early around mid way I guess.
