As Thrones ascended to its place in the pantheon of prestige TV, it became a cultural lingua franca.
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And the Thrones discourse soon seeped into topics that transcended the series itself.
Even when the series went south, there was solace in the cathartic collective outrage that followed each episode. It flowed from the days of discussion between each episode and the months of anticipation and speculation that preceded each season. One Year After the ‘Game of Thrones’ Finale, Book Readers Are Still Waiting for Their Ending What Does Bran Stark’s Westeros Look Like One Year After the ‘Game of Thrones’ Finale? Where Have Arya’s Adventures Taken Her a Year After the ‘Game of Thrones’ Finale?īut the joy (and, at the end, agony) of Thrones was never limited to the hour a week when we were watching. Weiss and David Benioff’s rush to resolve Season 8 incites a similar sentiment, one that retroactively colors our recollections of the 60-something satisfying Sundays that Thrones fans enjoyed from 2011 to 2017. “Even now, long days later, the memory filled him with a bitter rage,” Martin wrote of Tyrion’s betrayal by his captor Catelyn Stark in A Game of Thrones. A year ago Tuesday, series finale “The Iron Throne” concluded one of the least-liked last seasons of any well-liked show-and the past 12 months have sent that season’s average user score even lower than it was in the week after it ended. Then came the final season, which drew record ratings but found far less favor with critics and fans. Remember when Season 5’s Dorne detour was the most disliked stretch of the series? The early episodes of the series weren’t warm or simple, but the public perception of the series was: Despite sporadic slips, the first seven seasons of Thrones enjoyed average Rotten Tomatoes scores between 90 and 97 and average IMDb user scores between 8.8 and 9.3. Game of Thrones fandom is a little like that. Even when he casts his mind back to “warmer, simpler days,” he can’t help but dwell on the cold, complicated ones that followed. Martin’s series, most of the people who populated Jon’s early life are dead, and House Stark’s ancestral seat is a scorched ruin. “All my memories are poisoned,” Jon Snow muses in A Dance With Dragons, thinking back to his boyhood at Winterfell. In honor of the conclusion of the last piece of monoculture, The Ringer will spend all week looking back on Thrones -focusing not just on its final season, but celebrating its entire eight-season run, reminiscing about its host of memorable characters, and pondering where some of them may be one year later. A year ago this week, Tyrion Lannister gave his now-famous speech, Bran became Bran the Broken and the king of Westeros, Jon Snow ventured north, and Game of Thrones came to an end.
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