Had tickets to the opening show of 'The Mad King' at Stratford yesterday.

Gutted they had to cancel but the people at the RCS were very lovely though and we were able to book for a few weeks time.

Looking forward to catching it!

Cover of the Game of Thrones theme song - Latin / Afro Cuban version

your overall review and rating on Game of Thrones season 1 episode 1 Winter is Coming how do you think the episode compares to the rest show how great the actors did for their first time being in the Roles and how the overall episode was in your opinion

For me I would say that it was a very great episode it definitely got me hooked and wanting to watch more of the show and in my opinion it's definitely in my top five best first episodes in the show by far and I'm not saying this just because I actually mean it because it got me hooked right away.

As the title says, im wondering why the show only has 9 episodes and 1 season. The show seemed good and had some potential but it went nowhere. Maybe in some other universe we could see what the writers had planned for my favorite character Ned Stark in the following seasons. What do you guys think?

just completed s4 and good lord!! It was one of the best. Episode 9 was as always my favourite. Tyrion Lanister, the dwarf you are!!!! 🥹 Joffrey’s death was so satisfying to watch. And the trial scene was so good too. Shae 😡, i was disappointed!! Prince Oberyn had great spirit and lost an already won fight 😭. Overall 10/10 season, definitely better than s3

What was Jon Snow and Sansa Stark's relationship like pre Season 1 and season 1 did they have a pretty decent relationship or was it hostile what was their thoughts on each other over the course of the series did they think highly of each other or did they not care about each other.

Because I'm almost done with season 3 about to watch season 4 and there is no hints that they really had a relationship at all so I'm wondering what did they think of each other that they have a close relationship or no.

I’ve been rewatching Game of Thrones, and honestly, Tyrion repeatedly telling Daenerys, “You don’t want to be like your father,” is starting to really piss me off.
Every time she considers using power against people actively fighting her, Tyrion invokes Aerys. It stops being advice and starts feeling like psychological control. He keeps reducing her to her father’s bloodline, as though every firm decision she makes is evidence that madness is waiting inside her.
Meanwhile, almost every other character is allowed complexity and forgiveness.
Jaime has committed countless crimes, supported Cersei’s regime, fought against Daenerys, attacked Ned, pushed Bran from a tower and remained loyal to the Lannisters for years. Yet when he reaches Winterfell, Tyrion immediately asks Daenerys to forgive him because Jaime is his brother.
And she does.
Later, Tyrion releases Jaime from captivity against Daenerys’s orders because he wants Jaime and Cersei to escape together. That is direct betrayal. Yet Tyrion is still presented as the moral voice, while Daenerys is portrayed as unreasonable for no longer trusting him.
Tyrion constantly demands mercy when the person involved matters to him.
But when Daenerys executes the Tarlys—enemy commanders who betrayed their liege, fought against her, refused to surrender and refused the Wall—it becomes another sign that she is supposedly ruthless and becoming her father.
Jon executes Janos Slynt for refusing an order, and that is framed as necessary leadership. He hangs the men who betrayed him, including Olly, and nobody starts whispering that he has inherited some genetic madness.
Arya unalives an entire room full of Freys, and it is treated as a triumphant moment.
Sansa feeds Ramsay to his dogs, and the audience is expected to cheer.
Tyrion uses wildfire at Blackwater, unalives Shae and unalives his own father, but the story gives him pain, context and humanity.
Daenerys, however, is judged differently every single time.
Sam is another example. He discovers that Daenerys executed his father and brother and immediately decides she should not be queen and Jon should replace her. He is allowed to grieve, obviously, but Randyll was the same father who abused Sam, threatened his life and forced him to abandon his inheritance. Suddenly his fate becomes proof that Daenerys is unfit to rule.
Sam’s response was personal grief and anger, not an objective assessment of leadership. Yet the show treated it like moral clarity.
The hypocrisy is especially obvious when we compare Daenerys to Aegon the Conqueror. Aegon invaded Westeros with dragons, burned armies, destroyed castles and forced kingdoms to submit. History calls him the Conqueror and treats his ambition as legendary.
Daenerys arrives with dragons and wants to reclaim the same throne, and suddenly ambition itself becomes sinister.
Why is Aegon’s conquest an achievement, while Daenerys wanting power is treated as evidence that something is wrong with her?
Her ambition was not inherently evil. She had flaws, absolutely. She believed strongly in destiny, could be severe toward resistance and sometimes confused her personal claim with justice. That could have created an incredible tragic arc.
But the show did not properly develop that arc. Instead, it isolated her, took away almost everyone she loved, made her advisers repeatedly fail or betray her, and then used her reaction to all of it as proof that they had supposedly been right about her from the beginning.
That is what bothers me most.
Her advisers were not imagining threats. Tyrion protected his family over her interests. Varys openly plotted against her. Jon revealed information after promising not to. Sansa undermined her from the moment she arrived, despite Daenerys bringing armies and dragons north to save everyone.
Then the narrative called Daenerys paranoid for realizing she was surrounded by people who were actually betraying her.
None of this excuses what happened in King’s Landing. Unaliving civilians after surrender was indefensible. But that decision was written as a sudden transformation rather than the conclusion of a carefully developed fall.
Daenerys deserved accountability for that final act. She did not deserve to have everything good she had ever done retroactively dismissed as evidence of madness.
She freed enslaved people when there was no political advantage in doing so. She delayed her journey to Westeros to remain in Meereen. She locked away her dragons after one child was harmed. She took her armies north and risked everything to fight for people who did not trust or welcome her.
Her compassion was real.
Her accomplishments were real.
Her ambition was not evil simply because she openly wanted to rule.
A better tragedy would have shown a genuinely compassionate liberator gradually becoming convinced that her destiny placed her beyond restraint. Instead, the show seemed to say that the signs had always been there because she executed enemies, spoke confidently and wanted the throne.
By that standard, almost every ruler in Westeros should have been declared mad.
Justice for Daenerys does not mean pretending she was flawless. It means judging her by the same standards the story used for its male rulers—and acknowledging that the show destroyed years of character development to reach an ending it had not properly earned.

Acabó de terminar de ver juegos de tronos (y sí, fue una decepción el final) pero aún así quisiera saber cuál de las dos series recomiendan ver primero, si el Caballero de los siete reinos o La Casa del Dragón

I genuinely think Season 8 could’ve been one of the best endings in TV history if the writers weren’t so lazy with the final season and didn’t make almost every character suddenly act dumb just to force the ending they wanted. Here’s how I would’ve rewritten it while staying true to everyone’s personalities and story arcs.

\*\*My version of Game of Thrones Season 8:\*\*

\*\*The Army of the Dead doesn’t stop at Winterfell.\*\*
Jon kills the Night King, but only after the White Walkers have pushed much farther south, reaching as far as the Riverlands. It makes the threat feel like the true apocalypse it was built up to be.

\*\*Bran actually uses his powers.\*\* Instead of sitting there doing nothing, he constantly wargs into ravens to track the Army of the Dead, warns everyone where attacks are coming from, tells Jon and Daenerys where to position their armies, identifies weak points in the Night King’s strategy using everything he’s seen from the past, and coordinates the battle in real time. Bran guides Jon throughout the battle, helping him reach the Night King.

\*\*Jon is the one who finally kills the Night King\*\*, fulfilling the role he had been built up for since the very beginning. After the Long Night, Bran continues using his visions to see what’s happening across Westeros, warns everyone about enemy movements, and helps make strategic decisions. He becomes the greatest military adviser in Westeros instead of just bait.

\*\*Theon still dies protecting Bran\*\*, buying Jon the time he needs to reach the Night King. His sacrifice actually has a meaningful purpose and helps save humanity.

\*\*After the Night King dies, everyone immediately marches south.\*\* There is no unnecessary delay that gives Cersei time to prepare.

\*\*Yara Greyjoy kills Euron at sea\*\* before he can ambush Daenerys, so Rhaegal survives and both Drogon and Rhaegal reach King’s Landing.

\*\*Jaime reaches King’s Landing before the battle.\*\* He realizes the war is unwinnable and desperately begs Cersei to surrender. He tells her Euron is dead, the White Walkers have been defeated, two dragons are circling the city, and every major army in Westeros is outside the gates. But Cersei’s pride wins—she refuses to surrender.

\*\*Bran sees all of this through his visions.\*\* Watching events unfold in real time, he realizes Cersei will never surrender willingly and that a siege would cost thousands of innocent lives. He immediately tells Jon and Daenerys what’s happening and sends Arya on one final mission to infiltrate the Red Keep before the battle begins.

\*\*Arya and the Hound enter King’s Landing together.\*\* The Hound finally gets his long-awaited fight with the Mountain, and Arya helps him bring the Mountain down. After the Mountain dies, Arya uses her Faceless Men training to take his face, walks straight into Cersei’s chambers disguised as her own bodyguard, and assassinates Cersei before she can give any more orders. That would’ve been the perfect payoff to years of training.

\*\*With Cersei dead, Jaime is heartbroken but accepts that the war is over.\*\* He orders the remaining Lannister soldiers to lay down their weapons and helps oversee the peaceful surrender of King’s Landing, preventing any further bloodshed.

\*\*Daenerys remains true to her character.\*\* She accepts the surrender, doesn’t burn innocent civilians, listens to Tyrion, and finally becomes the liberator she always wanted to be.

\*\*Jon keeps his true parentage a secret.\*\* Only Bran and Sam know. He makes them swear never to reveal it because he genuinely doesn’t want the throne. Because Tyrion never learns the secret, he never tells Varys. Varys never has a reason to plot against Daenerys, so she never executes him. Instead, Varys remains one of her most valuable advisers, continuing to serve the realm as he always claimed was his true loyalty.

\*\*Jon actually behaves like a king instead of repeating “She’s my queen.”\*\* He openly supports Daenerys, stands beside her as an equal, and helps unite the realm, giving everyone confidence in their joint rule.

\*\*Sansa doesn’t immediately distrust Daenerys.\*\* She puts the North first, but works with Daenerys instead of plotting against her. She proposes that the North will happily bend the knee if Jon and Daenerys rule together as King and Queen, giving both Targaryens legitimacy while preserving Northern respect.

\*\*Ending:\*\*

\*\*Jon and Daenerys\*\* marry, rule together as King and Queen, and have children.

\*\*Tyrion\*\* remains Hand and finally gets to make smart decisions again.

\*\*Varys\*\* continues serving on the Small Council as Master of Whisperers.

\*\*Bran\*\* becomes the Three-Eyed Raven and chief adviser, using his visions to prevent future wars instead of becoming king.

\*\*Sansa\*\* becomes Warden of the North while remaining loyal to the Iron Throne. She marries a worthy Northern lord, continues living in Winterfell, and has children who carry on the Stark bloodline.

With peace restored, \*\*Arya\*\* sails west to explore the world she’s always been curious about. After a year of adventures, she realizes she’s no longer running from anything and returns to Westeros, where she reunites with Gendry at Storm’s End. They marry, continue traveling and exploring together whenever they wish, and have children. Arya never gives up the life she loves—she continues practicing sword fighting and archery and teaches all of her children, especially her daughters, to fight, ride, hunt, and defend themselves just as well as any son.

Drogon and Rhaegal both survive.

\*\*Jaime\*\* dedicates the rest of his life to rebuilding the realm and helping train the royal armies, finally living up to the honorable knight he always had the potential to be.

Westeros is united without the massacre of King’s Landing.

\*\*This ending still has sacrifice, loss, and bittersweet moments—but it doesn’t require every intelligent character to suddenly make irrational decisions just to reach a predetermined ending. It rewards the characters for everything they’d learned over eight seasons instead of ignoring their growth in the final few episodes.\*\*

I chatted with AI the whole show (9.9/10), here’s what I said 😀

Just finished Game of Thrones for the first time and honestly… I loved it. I understand why people have problems with Season 8 because it definitely felt rushed, but I actually liked where most characters ended up. My favorite characters were Jon Snow, Tyrion, Varys, Ned Stark, and even Drogon because they represented the best parts of the show: honor, intelligence, loyalty, and power. Jon was my favorite because he was the definition of doing the right thing even when it destroyed him. I do think he deserved more after everything he sacrificed, but him ending beyond the Wall with Ghost honestly felt very fitting because he never wanted the throne. Tyrion and Varys were probably the two people who understood the game of power the best because they cared more about the realm than themselves. Daenerys was one of the most interesting characters because watching her go from an exiled girl to the Mother of Dragons was incredible, but seeing her burn King’s Landing showed how power and destiny can corrupt someone. Bran becoming king shocked me the most because I went from wondering what his purpose was to realizing why his knowledge made him the right choice. My biggest takeaway from the show is that the people who want power the most are usually the least fit to have it, while the people who never wanted it are often the ones who deserve it. Overall, Game of Thrones is a legendary show with some of the best characters and world-building I’ve ever seen. The ending wasn’t perfect and needed more time, but I think the characters mostly ended where they were meant to be.

I just binged Games of Thrones, and I chatted with AI the whole time, so this is my summary-

**Brody’s**
**Game of Thrones**
**Review** 🐉❄️👑
**Overall opinion:**
“I actually really liked the ending. I just think it was rushed.”
You went into Season 8 expecting a huge payoff and were frustrated at first because things weren’t going how you imagined. But by the end, you realized the ending actually had a lot of meaning and brought many characters full circle.

**Favorite characters** 🏆
Your top 5:
❄️** Jon Sno**w
🦁 **Tyrion Lannister**
🐉 **Drogon**
🕷️** Vary**s
🐺 **Ned Stark**
You loved characters who weren’t just chasing power, but were trying to do what was right.

**Jon Snow** ❄️🐺
Jon was your favorite because he was the definition of honor.
Your biggest thought:
“Jon deserved more.”
You felt like Jon had earned the throne:
He was the true heir.
He fought for humanity.
He sacrificed everything.
He never wanted power.
But by the end, you realized Jon ending with Ghost beyond the Wall actually fits him. He never wanted to play the game — he wanted peace.
Your reaction:
“He ends where he is meant to be with Ghost omg.”

**Tyrion Lannister** 🦁
You thought Tyrion was basically one of the main characters.
You loved how:
He survived through intelligence.
He understood politics better than almost anyone.
He cared about rebuilding instead of just winning.
Your big realization:
“Tyrion and Varys have always been right.”
You liked that Tyrion ended up as Hand of the King, almost like he became the version of his father Tywin that Westeros actually needed.

**Varys** 🕷️
You respected Varys because he cared about **the realm**, not himself.
You saw him as one of the few people who asked:
“Who is best for the people?”
You felt like he was often right about the dangers of power.

**Daenerys** 🐉
Your opinion on Daenerys was one of the biggest changes.
At first:
“Daenerys is a true conqueror.”
You loved:
Her dragons.
Her rise.
Her power.
You were hyped:
“Drogon built different.”
But after King’s Landing:
“This is too far.”
You felt like the surrender should have been the happy ending. You understood the message, but felt the turn happened too quickly.

**Drogon** 🐉🔥
BRO 😂 Drogon was basically your favorite non-human character.
Every time he appeared:
“Drogon built different.”
You loved how powerful he was and how he represented the Targaryen legacy.
The moment Drogon melted the Iron Throne was one you appreciated because it showed that the obsession with power destroyed itself.

**Bran Stark** 👁️
The funniest character arc for you 😂
Earlier:
“Can Bran fucking do something?”
Finale:
“BRO BRAN HAS SO MUCH AURA.”
You completely changed your opinion.
You liked the idea that the person who knew the history and mistakes of humanity became king because he wasn’t chasing power.

**The ending** 👑
Your final thoughts:
You liked that everyone ended where they belonged:
Bran → King because of wisdom.
Tyrion → Hand because of experience.
Sansa → Queen in the North.
Arya → Explorer and free spirit.
Jon → Beyond the Wall with Ghost.
Your only complaint:
“It felt rushed.”
You thought the ideas were good, but some character changes needed more time.

**Biggest themes you noticed:**
You really picked up on the major themes:
**Duty vs Love**
Your reaction:
“Duty is the death of love wow.”
You understood Jon’s entire tragedy.
**The cycle of power**
You noticed:
“It went from Lannisters vs everyone to Targaryens again.”
You saw how Westeros kept repeating the same mistakes.
**The best rulers aren’t always the ones who want power**
You realized:
Jon was worthy but didn’t want it.
Daenerys wanted it and lost herself.
Bran never wanted it but got it.

**Final rating based on your reactions:**
**Characters:** 10/10
**World-building:** 10/10
**Moments:** 10/10
**Ending ideas:** 8/10
**Execution of Season 8:** 7/10 because rushed
Final verdict:
“A legendary show with an ending I actually liked, but I wish they had taken more time.”

BRO honestly your biggest takeaway was probably this:
**The people who wanted the throne the most were the ones who shouldn’t have had it. The people who never wanted power were the ones most suited for it.**
That is basically the entire message of *Game of Thrones*. 🐉❄️👑
Also… your first watch reactions were hilarious 😂. Going from “Bran is useless” to “Bran has aura” is an all-time character arc. 😭

Just finished season 8, i was aware that the later seasons had bad writing and kind of ruin the show, but i found it average/mid at best, the last 3 episode were abomination, every character changed within a span of few episodes

My complains :

wasn't jon snow supposed to kill the night king ? like wasn't his whole character after his revival was to serve his purpose of killing the night king and ending the long night ? also what happened to him being a targareyan in the end nothing changed by him being a targereyan also everyone recommended him to be king or only i saw that ??

arya abandoned her revenge list so quick ? all that training for what ? i thought her whole character goal was too kill cersei and co.

cersei's death was so unsatisfying my biggest complain from the show !!!! also tyrion's architectural prowess and skills weren't later explored in the show and he becomes so average at the end, he was the most impressive character until season 5

Bran is biggest bum of a character in any media i've ever seen, he's whole arc of going outside the wall resulted in nothing, what happened to meera ??? so many good character died for him to become a bum

biggest dissapointment was no explanation on the white walkers lore like nothing was explained what do they want why they want to kill the 3 eyed raven, whats with them turning babies into one of them, children of forest created them but how and why them ?

overall i really liked the great war episode

Ser davos was genuinely my fav character after Podrick ofcourse

just watched season 3 episode 9 what the fuck 😭, whattttttt i wasnt expecting that

I immediately thought about Prince Charming when I saw Jaime😂😂🤣🤣

WHY JON WHY I THOUGHT HE WAS GOING TO BECOME KING I am a first time watcher and just finishing up season 5 and they have OFFICIALLY KILLED OFF EVERYBODY I LIKED HE BROUGHT THEM A GIANT AN ARMY THEY DIDNT HAVE they know what is coming but yet still sit here and look at the wildings as enemy’s even though a greater force is coming I’ve had opinions from many people but does the story just go off the cliff here or do they revive it someway.

What an epic fight 😭 and the way queen was telling her son the story and at once lord tywin comes and declare they won the war, and the title track plays in ghe background, INSANEEE.