Buzzfeed has done a list ranking the Game of Thrones episodes from best to worst. Go check it out. I don't specifically disagree with any one thing, but...
This is like if I went through and ranked my favorite chapters of the books. ("Oh, man, Dance with Dragons chapter 59 got me excited about the plot for the first time in 500 pages!")
It's because you're telling one massive story. You can go through and rank Star Trek episodes, even the later Deep Space 9 ones. You can even do it to Bablyon 5 and Battlestar Galactica because each episode does tend to have one or two focuses while still advancing the overall story. But with Game of Thrones, you're always advancing everyone's story in five-minute chunks every episode. With one exception. But there's never a Jon-specific episode or a Daenerys-specific episode.
So to me, picking and choosing your favorite Game of Thrones episode is like saying "I liked how everyone's plot was handled in this specific week more than any other week" rather than "that episode had good story, solid character development, emotional impact, etc." Which is not to say that Thrones doesn't have those things, but I just can't judge an episode based on how it tells five minutes' worth of ten different story.
No comments:
Post a Comment