Exactly one week, I had one day off, and I'm starting season 6, so 10 hours (one season) a day. If you read some of my commentaries on other subjects I think is clear that I don't give bad reviews often, and I don't like to dislike something everybody likes just to be different. GoT is overrated as fuk, my opinion. I understand why is so popular, so much constant information for the brain of people that are used to constant information, violence, and nudity
They've cheapened themselves by overusing nudity, especially the earlier seasons.
. Cinematography is great, I give them that. A handful of good acting, and this is not a compliment given the amount of actors.
The music really is first class, Ramin Djawadi has done a fantastic job. The acting isn't always great, Masie Williams (Arya) and Emilia Clarke (Dany) have come under fire a few times over the years, other than that though I think the acting has been fantastic, Peter Dinklage has been a revelation.
I've seen more well though stories in Brazilian/Mexican novelas to be honest, actually this is much like a novela, just not for your grandmother. George R.R. Martin story is okay, but nothing special really, compared to J.R.R Tolkien is just, not even close. I liked somethings (many things), the Night's watch was very well though, the Faceless Men from Braavos, very interesting. I think I agree a lot with South Park, is really about dicks and dragons. I didn't finish yet, I'm not saying I don't like, I'm saying those who told me this was the best series ever made are just mistaken.
I would say A Song of Ice and Fire is better than LOTR, its a much more adult orientated series with far less clear lines of good and evil, the heroes all make mistakes and the villains aren't always clear cut. Tywin Lannister for example, is he really a villain or just a ruthless Lord fighting for his family?
The show does do some things better than the books but for the most part the books are a fascinating read and add much more depth to brief scenes from the show.
One thing really irritates me on re-watches, foreign languages being spoken, like high valyrian, it always just sounds like gibberish with the same phrases being repeated. I think they should have found a suitable real world language and used that. Elvish in LOTR for example is an actual written language devised by Tolkien, a language professor.
The real strength of Game of Thrones has been to shock us, and really go in unexpected directions, and do things to major characters that doesn't happen in other shows. The show has suffered for this a bit in S6-7 with some characters having quite strong plot armour but now we're in the endgame I think we'll see quite a few major deaths by the time its over.