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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2016 3:31:20 GMT -5
4 > 6 > 1 > 5 > 3 > 2
Season 1 Top 3 1x07 1x09 1x06
Season 2 2x09 2x03 2x08
Season 3 3x04 3x09 3x05
Season 4 4x09 4x10 4x08
Season 5 5x08 5x10 5x03
Season 6 6x09 6x10 6x05
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Post by rumystark on Jul 8, 2016 13:06:18 GMT -5
OOOOH. Ok. Seasons in order from what I liked best, episodes under each.
1. Season 6 (I think I liked Season 4 overall more but the good eps of 6 were just hard to beat) The Door The Battle of the Bastards The Winds of Winter
2. Season 4 The Breaker of Chains Oathkeeper The Children
3. Season 1 Winter is Coming Lord Snow Fire and Blood
4. Season 2 Garden of Bones The Night Lands Valar Morghulis
5. Season 3 And Now His Watch Has Ended The Bear and the Maiden Fair Mhysa
6. Season 5 Hardhome Mother's Mercy The House of Black and White
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Post by breakfest on Jul 8, 2016 14:38:06 GMT -5
I'm going to try and use the top 10 I did to help actually narrow this one down. Again I always change my mind when I think about it because three of them are so close. Anyhow, reverse order:
6. Season 2 Blackwater What Is Dead May Never Die A Man Without Honour
That Season 2 is most people's 6th choice despite still being an incredible season of television says it all about this show.
5. Season 1 Baelor Fire And Blood A Golden Crown
Love Season 1 but it did take me a little while to fully get into this show, since I wasn't much of a TV watcher. In hindsight being this low down is tough considering it did so much legwork so well. Still, I feel the show has just been getting better.
4. Season 3 The Rains Of Castamere Kissed By Fire And Now His Watch Has Ended
In some older lists this has been my top choice, weirdly. Probably because the heights are so high. Still, the episodes in between the highlights are weaker than later seasons. Three years on it doesn't feel as cohesive.
3. Season 5 Hardhome Mother's Mercy The Dance Of Dragons
Definitely have a higher opinion of this season than most. Before the last two episodes of Season 6 blew me away, this would have been above it. The darkest, grittiest season but also, for me, the one that packs the biggest emotional punch.
2. Season 6 The Winds Of Winter The Door The Battle Of The Bastards
Gets better and better after a mixed start. The way each half of the season builds to its different climaxes make for some of the most consistently viscerally thrilling sequences of the show.
1. Season 4 The Children Two Swords Mockingbird
Will always be my favourite I think. Is the reason I got into fandom in the first place, which I've never done with anything else and probably never will. So many huge moments but all of them feel completely earned, using the entire weight of the history of the show to create prolonged payoff. Every storyline is great.
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Post by TheArchmaester on Jul 9, 2016 21:33:40 GMT -5
Season 6
Imo the most creative, inventive and adventurous season in a number of ways. Has a masterful storyline that holds it all together for me (King's Landing) and a myriad of exciting subplots (acting troupe, Melisandre's crisis of faith, Riverrun, Bran's time quest, Horn Hill....) It's the season where the show fully becomes its own thing, free from the boundaries of the books. In Cersei's trial, it also finds the perfect closure for Act II of the overall tale - a nuclear end to the identity crisis and religious cleansing story threads that have been going on for 3 seasons now. It's flawed alright (I couldn't stomach Essos anymore, except for Braavos) but a work of this scale will always be flawed. I'll be surprised if this season is topped.
i - The Winds of Winter (10/10) ii - The Door (9/10) iii - Blood of My Blood (9/10)
Season 1
Because it's still the most elegantly plotted of them all. It was a different show back then though.
i - Fire and Blood (9/10) ii - Baelor (9/10) iii - A Golden Crown (8/10)
Season 3
I found the first half of this season to be very exciting. Has a couple of unfortunate episodes in the middle, but then rises back to greatness at the end. The Red Wedding was to the first act what Cersei's trial was to the second - a flawless climax. Any season with a scene like that is gonna rank highly.
i - The Rains of Castamere (10/10) ii - Kissed by Fire (9/10) iii - And Now His Watch Is Ended (9/10)
Season 5
Quite an underrated season. Another season with a brilliant first half, where even Meereen became fascinating for a short while. I liked that it seemed eager to explore new issues. There is one gigantic missed opportunity, however: Stannis' arc could have culminated in an extraordinary Shakespearean way if it had been properly developed. Dillane was genius in these scenes, but that story had a wealth of potential that wasn't fully explored imo. And then there's Dorne.
i - High Sparrow (9/10) ii - Kill the Boy (9/10) iii - The Gift (8/10)
Season 2
I honestly don't remember much about this season, but "Blackwater" is sheer greatness. And anything with an ending that good couldn't have been that bad, right?
i - Blackwater (10/10) ii - What Is Dead May Never Die (8/10) iii - Valar Dohaeris (8/10)
Season 4
The season of big moments, but I found a lot of it to be a bit stilted and soulless. Oberyn Martell was the saving grace. Oh, and the Brienne vs. Hound fight is my favorite to this day.
i - Two Swords (9/10) ii - Breaker of Chains (8/10) iii - The Children (8/10)
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Post by greyjoy on Jul 16, 2016 11:34:33 GMT -5
1. Season 4 The Laws of Gods and Men Watchers on the Wall The Children
2. Season 6 The Door Battle of the Bastards The Winds of Winter
3. Season 1 A Golden Crown Baelor Fire and Blood
4. Season 2 What is Dead May Never Die The Prince of Winterfell Blackwater
5. Season 3 And Now His Watch Has Ended Kissed by Fire Rains of Castamere
6. Season 5 Hardhome The Dance of Dragons Mother's Mercy
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Post by day dreamer on Jul 16, 2016 12:11:53 GMT -5
Season 1 - Winter is Coming, Baelor, Fire and Blood Season 3 - Kissed By Fire, The Rains of Castamere, And Now His Watch Has Ended Season 6 - Battle of the Bastards, The Door, The Winds of Winter Season 4 - The Watchers on The Wall, The Lion and the Rose, The Mountain and the Viper Season 2 - Blackwater, The Ghost of Harranhall, The Prince of Winterfell Season 5 - Hardhome, Sons of the Harpy, Kill the Boy
(I'm really not sure on my S2/S5 picks aside from the first episodes.)
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Post by Envie on Jul 16, 2016 12:20:39 GMT -5
You all are so good at this! I've decided I'm going to wait until after our Re-Watch project to do this because it's only fair I give all of them a good think over with equal criticisms and appreciation. Don't forget today starts the re-watch project over in the Season 1 forum!
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Post by dariopatke on Jul 16, 2016 17:38:06 GMT -5
4>1>3>2>6>>>>5
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Post by breakfest on Sept 2, 2017 12:54:45 GMT -5
So I've had nearly a week to think about it and I still have no fucking idea where Season 7 goes.
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Post by konradsmith on Sept 2, 2017 14:03:58 GMT -5
So I've had nearly a week to think about it and I still have no fucking idea where Season 7 goes. It's hard to judge it the same given how much shorter the season was. I still think s6 is the best. I guess s7 would be either second behind it or third behind s4 for me. But more rewatches are required for me to judge any of this with any kindof certainty.
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Post by Nezzer on Sept 2, 2017 14:13:19 GMT -5
S4 > S6 > S1 > S3 > S7 > S2 > S5 S1: Baelor > Fire and Blood > A Golden Crown S2: Blackwater > What is Dead May Never Die > Valar Morghulis S3: Rains of Castamere > Kissed by Fire > Second Sons S4: The Watchers on the Wall > The Mountain and the Viper > The Lion and the Rose S5: Hardhome > High Sparrow> Kill the Boy S6: SNOWBOWL > The Winds of Winter > The Door S7: The Spoils of War > The Dragon and the Wolf > The Queen's JusticeUpdated.
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Post by jared on Sept 2, 2017 14:35:49 GMT -5
A week after it drew to a close, Season 7 is my third favorite season of Game of Thrones. I love every single episode of this show, but I particularly cherished every episode of Season 7. I found them all rich, thrilling, and rewarding, and some of the story developments that I had been waiting years to see (such as Jon and Dany) not only met my expectations, they exceeded them. On a per episode basis, Season 7 has more of my favorite moments than any other, and some of my favorite moments in the entire show happened this year. Furthermore, most of the commonly cited "issues" that people had with the season were not issues for me at all. I loved the faster pace, both plotwise and with the skipping of pointless travel. I thought the writing was great, both overall and on a scene-by-scene basis (especially the latter). And I didn't mind the relative lack of death - there will be plenty of that next season. So, in short, I absolutely loved it!
Around the time of "The Spoils of War", I thought that if Season 7 continued on its current outstanding trajectory, it could wind up being my favorite season of the entire show, despite having three less episodes. I loved "Eastwatch" more than many seemed to, I fucking adore "Beyond the Wall" (polarizing though it may be, I will champion that episode forever), and "The Dragon and the Wolf" is not only my favorite episode of the season but a Top 5 GOT episode overall. But in the end, it couldn't quite reach the top, and it was mostly because of the 7 episode thing. Great as they were, these seven episodes weren't quite above and beyond enough to exceed the level of the very best 10 episode seasons, though they did blow by several others. In many ways, I feel like Season 7 was Part One of the final season. If I were to consider Season 7 in conjunction with an 8th season of similar quality, I think that would likely reach the top of my personal list.
One thing to consider about my rankings is because I love every episode of this show so much and consider the baseline level of quality to be so absurdly high, I tend to place more value on what I consider to be peaks of true transcendence rather than just consistent greatness, and I'm far more forgiving of alleged dips in episodes or storylines that don't quite work as well. That's one of the reasons why I give Season 6 the edge over Season 4 as my favorite season. I think that in terms of an overall baseline of excellence across every episode, Season 4 has the edge. But the peaks of Season 6 - particularly around midseason with "Book of the Stranger", and "The Door" and at the end with "Battle of the Bastards" and "The Winds of Winter" - were so unbelievably high that it carried it over the top. Season 7 had several peaks that were just as high if not higher, but I think I need some further distance from it so that adjacent opinions - both positive and negative - will fade and my personal rankings reflect only my own feelings about the show.
So, as of today, my personal ranking of the seasons would be:
1. Season 6 2. Season 4 3. Season 7 4. Season 3 5. Season 1 6. Season 5 7. Season 2
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2017 15:00:51 GMT -5
1 > 6 > 3 > 5 > 7 > 4 > 2
Best episodes: The Spoils of War, Beyond the Wall, The Dragon and the Wolf
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Post by barristanwhitebeard on Sept 2, 2017 18:41:58 GMT -5
4 > 1 > 6 > 7 > 3 > 5 > 2
Best Episode: The Spoils of War > The Dragon and The Wolf > The Queen's Justice
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6 > 4 > 1 > 7 > 3 > 2 >>>> 5
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