TheGoonchWhat franchises do you consider part of the "pillars" of popular culture?
I’d add game of Thrones. It was a cultural phenomenon when it came out. Oh, and the Simpsons.
Thrones is fading fast. It will be gone in ten years. Unlike Lord of the Rings, there’s no new generation watching it.
Yeah, I think it will be like “Dallas”. It will be really big for one generation.
Not even one generation, the entire runtime is not even 10 years, and you’d have to be in a rather small age bracket to get the full brunt of the “cultural” impact. My parents’ generation watched it, but it wasn’t really all that different from everything else for them.
It’s actually super interesting to see the fall of GoT. It fell into oblivion almost immediately after the last season finished.
WhiteOakBayouIt’s really wild. Even in my own life we watched each of the first six seasons over and over while waiting for new ones. By the end of it I felt no need. I barely remember how it ended and have no desire to watch it. Kind of sucks, I think I’m right in that age bracket that it was a big deal for. No lasting impact. Like Avatar
I was waiting for it all to come out before I watched it. Then the consensus was that it wasn’t worth watching.
BlizzardYou should definitely watch it.
wizardbeardI waited too, and it was worth it.
The last… two seasons-ish drop off in terms of pacing ridiculously, which causes the overall plot to suffer as they rush to the finish. There’s also a bunch of stuff about how everything ends that feels cheap because while it’s a believable state for everything to end up in, it isn’t earned or worked towards. The show is usually a slow burn punctuated by the occasional “big shit happens suddenly”, while the final seasons are just speeding along with no time to examine character motivations etc. Stuff that was hinted at previously jumps from “are they hinting that?” straight to “oh, yeah, it’s that. And about 10x the level they hinted at”.
That said, there’s still a TON of good content in the show up until the end.