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Game Of Thrones meant a great deal to me, both personally and professionally. Writing about the show helped me build a career. But I can’t get past my hatred over how it ended. That’s why I’ve been adamant about never doing a re-watch Tyrion certainly doesn’t look back fondly on the first half of the Oberyn/Mountain fight. But I was willing to check out the first episode ahead of the show’s 10th anniversary, and that’s when the last thing I ever expected to happen did:
Game Of Thrones hooked me right back in. That reversal means someday the superb storytelling that made up the show’s first six seasons the very reason it was able to disappoint viewers so much in the final two will eventually be what fans remember most.
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Ned Stark dispenses his own view of justice, as he opens himself up to a world where that justice has lost much of its meaning. (Image: HBO)
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Game of Thrones changed the television landscape as we know it kickstarting a decade of imitators, influencing the way genre stories were told as prestige drama, and, for most of that decade, expanding itself into a pop-cultural behemoth. Revisiting its first season is like stepping into a strange world, one smaller and yet somehow just as complex.
That’s the thing about
Thrones’ first season that feels so radically different, even more so than the lack of the fantastical roots that would catapult the show to titanic scale as it progressed. Everything feels so
small, and intentionally so Winterfell feels like an entirely different world to King’s Landing, not physically distant but spiritually and culturally, making the contrast between the events in Westeros and the events across the sea with Daenerys all the more stark (pun unintended, but, I’ll take it). The problems people face mothball into larger events, but they’re all intimately messy and personal, a small secret here and there, an act of brutality that is short, sharp, and in the moment. It’s a season that only rarely ever lingers on these moments of tension or violence, instead choosing to ruminate on the moments that come after. There’s less, for want of a better phrase, torture porn, whether it’s literal acts of brutality or putting characters th
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