• Deebster
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    39 months ago

    Well GoT was good until they ran out of source material and the 3BP books are all out so maybe we’ll avoid it falling off a cliff.

    I read the books back when they came out and I’m pretty fuzzy on the details now, so I’m not going to be able to complain about what they’ve changed.

    • @Moghul
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      9 months ago

      They had books for more than just the first couple seasons of GoT. Quality dropped from about season 4.

      Luo Ji doesn’t show up in the first book, I misattributed some of Wang Miao’s stuff to him, my mistake.

      Luo Gi is THE wallfacer

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      who figures out how to destroy solar systems, effectively stopping the trisolaran invasion

      . He is there at the end

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      of our solar system when everything gets sucked into 2d space

      . He’s easily the most pivotal character in the books and he’s not in the show. What else is there to say?

      • Deebster
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        19 months ago

        I think season 4 was the peak, and it looks like that’s a common opinion: https://www.ratingraph.com/tv-shows/game-of-thrones-ratings-26649/

        The episodes remain highly rated until the last season, although those of us who had read the books were complaining more before then - for me it was the combining of characters in a way that created plot armour, which ruined a big part of what made GoT great.

    • littleblue✨
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      19 months ago

      GoT was good until they ran out of source material

      There’s so much wrong with this statement, I don’t even know where to begin. Let’s go with: these two backbirths started their shit circus lonnng before GoT “ran out” of source material, and even by the time the storyline exceeded the physical books, GRRM had made a career of lifting historical plots, scenes, etc. unedited (save for names) to the point that anyone could’ve done better than the lifted-cheek-squirt they gave us.

      Nah. Fuck these two into the dirt and leave them as whimpering stains for the ants.