Round of 32 (New Dramas): Succession vs. Game of Thrones

A show which I assume is about getting promoted versus a show about dragons. What do you pick?

 

Succession is the best show currently airing

 

Game of Thrones, along with True Blood, seems to have dumbed down HBO over time.

 

Succession is very good. I need to keep going

 

Succession is better but Game of Thrones is my preferred, despite all the issues I have with it.

 

Succession is the superiorly written show (and very, very good), but I care far more about Arya and Sansa Stark than I ever will about any of the Roys.

 

We’re only in season 3 of succession and I’d take the first 3 seasons for GOT over it, so

 

Love both but the highs of GOT hit higher for me.

 

There really was nothing like Game of Thrones when it was firing on all cylinders. Too bad it will mostly be remembered for botching the ending as badly as any show ever has, and likely ensuring the novels never get finished.

Voted for Succession.

 

Wow.

GOT was must watch TV at the time.

Succession could be that now.

Tough call. Pondering...

 

This is surprising.

 

I haven't seen either, but isn't Succession the "it" show right now while people have been souring on Game of Thrones for a few years?

 

Yeah for sure, but the current Succession hype on this website pales in comparison to when Game of Thrones was running

 

And you should add Succession to your watch list btw, it’s one of the best things currently airing

 

I guess for Game of Thrones it does matter that the final season was so bad because the story was building to those moments the whole time. In comparison it’s less important that The Wire had a down season in its last season because it doesn’t do anything to hurt the prior seasons.

 

It's hard to overestimate how much goodwill GoT squandered in its last two seasons. It's rare to see something so universally hated, it has virtually no defenders.

 

I had very little issues with the final seasons honestly and don't really see where the intense hatred comes from. I also wasn't quite as intensely into the show as a lot of people were so maybe there was less expectation but I was pretty happy with how it all played out. Compared to shows like Dexter or How I Met Your Mother or something like The Rise of Skywalker its not even close for me.

 

The plot points of the final two seasons themselves were fine to excellent; they just didn't connect them with the time and care that they'd spent the rest of the series doing. So things happened a lot more suddenly than they had been without ample set-up and it all felt cheapened because the showrunners were done and rushing.

 

If the final two GOT seasons had been the normal full 10-episodes, it would have solved a lot of the issues people had with them imo

 

I definitely see how things happened quickly but most of the shit that happened had been set up for ages anyway so I didn't really mind it moving at a faster pace. Not the best seasons but far from the disasters they are for most people.

 

Daenerys going mad was hella rushed and the white walker war the show was building to for its entire run lasted one episode, Bran hardly did anything. The faceless men plot went out with a wimper. They turned Euron into a bro pirate. There’s so much more, it’s mostly bad because everything was rushed but there were some things that just went nowhere at all.

 

tbf i don't know if there was supposed to be more to the faceless men other than to give Arya the means to become a deadly badass.

I was annoyed with the direction they gave to Isaac Hempstead on being the Three Eyed Raven. Yeah he can't be the same person, but a monotone robot was a bad decision IMO

 

The Daenerys thing I've seen a lot of people mention but I feel like that was something that was built up from the beginning, didn't feel rushed at all to me. The white walker fight was a good episode, did you just want it to last longer? Endings to things usually happen a lot faster than the build up. Eventually these things that they've been building up to the whole show have to happen and I guess I was just on the side of not needing them dragged out any more.

Then there's a lot of stuff that just didn't have the pay off that I guess people were expecting which is an issue a lot of people had with stuff in Lost too and I just don't think everything needs to end up being that important or having every plot line tied up.

Like I said it may just partly be that I was never as invested as a lot of people so I didn't give a shit about Bran or Euron or the faceless men, I felt like they'd all served their purpose in the show. So there's probably a lot of things that bother people that don't even occur to me.

 

the got IG just posted a clip from The Mountain and the Viper and it reminded me how damn good this show did battles and, probably more specifically, one v one combat. I had no idea what the outcome of the Oberyn/Mountain fight was going to be and was legit anxious watching it. So many other good fights on the show but goddamn that one was good. Pedro Pascal had obviously trained his ass off to get good with a spear and make it look “pretty”