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
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.
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!
@@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
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.
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
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
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.
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??
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'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 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.
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.
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
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.
@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
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.
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.
The build up and the mysticism of the white walkers and the night king..for it to end with nothing seemed completely pointless. It's my absolute pet peeve, they needed another 5 seasons alone JUST focused on the white walkers.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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
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.
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'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?
the thing with Dany going mad is... they specifically changed moments from the books where she forgoes diplomacy for violence. when she frees the forest slave city they changed her demanding they kill everyone without a collar and instead have them kill the masters, when that moment would have really tied to everything else
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.
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 😤
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
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
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)
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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?
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
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.
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 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
Is it me or season 5 is underrated the only criticism I have was form the dorn plot but other then that I thought Jon, Cersei and I know many will disagree but even Stannis was on their peek
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
