Yes i am way behind. To be honest though, i am a Television Procrastinator, so it is no wonder. I have heard great things about both, and would love to hear from you guys on them.
Game of Thrones... because it actually goes somewhere and things actually happen. Though S1 of The Walking Dead is sill worth a watch as a stand-alone miniseries.
Game of Thrones. I also highly recommend reading the books since the show leaves out some of the major plot lines going on in the books or condenses them with characters from earlier seasons.
If you have Netflix, you can watch the entire series of Walking Dead up to the most recent season. Just a note on that, I'm not sure how you can watch GOT besides buying the DVD's, as I'm not in that fandom. Speaking on behalf of TWD, I'll try to be as general as possible: Pros: * Great action, horror, suspense at the best of times * Certain terrific characters * Season 1 is a great standalone story about a man trying to save his family and a group of misfits from the apocalypse. * Season 3 is a Cold War story between the heroes and a group of villains until it becomes a small war. Payoff doesn't occur until mid-season 4, though, but damn is the payoff worth it. * Season 5 starts with the heroes battling a group of cannibals, and the climactic season premiere is fucking great. It has a middling second quarter that goes nowhere, but the second half of the season has some really grey drama that I found entertaining as they adjust to a new home. Cons: * Usually the quality can dip and rise. We'll have a string of great episodes, then a string of okay episodes, and then a string of bad episodes in which little happens. * Despite there being no end in sight, the story starts getting repetitive a few seasons in. Survivors find a new home/new peace, enemies arrive and screw up things, then the heroes defeat the enemy. Rinse and repeat. * Season 2 has little happening, though the final episodes have great action, drama, loss, and a change to the status quo. * Season 4 is hit and miss. I liked it enough but I don't find it re-watchable besides the mid season finale and a select few episodes. Many don't care for the second half's "two or three characters at a time" focus, while some liked the spotlight episodes. * Season 6 has great potential and some great moments but squanders it with drawn out plots, and damn do the writers develop a love for cliffhangers and fakeouts. * Season 7 is really low energy after an incredibly brutal, cruel season premiere, and it suffers from repetitiveness as I mentioned. Hey, glad I'm not the only one who thought of it! *brofist*
Game of Thrones should be available on HBO Go though I have never used it because I own every season on Blu-Ray.
Game of Thrones, no contest. While I was not a fan of Season 5 at all, the show as a whole keeps you guessing as to what is going to happen, who is going to die, and keeps throwing new surprises at you (like the real meaning behind King's Landing). The Walking Dead is just the same thing over and over again. CHaracters find a place to chill, someone screws them over, zombies invade, characters die. Characters find a place to chill, someone screws them over, zombies invade, characters die. Rinse and repeat over every season. Sometimes twice in a season. The show needs to just end already as it itself is now just a lingering zombie.
I'd say Game of Thrones. The show gets more interesting each season and it feels like it's all building up to something big. It also starts out seeming like a world of low to no magic and you get to see how the characters react as magic and myth starts to be a bigger and bigger part of the world. With such a wide cast of characters there is generally a character to love and characters that you will love to hate. Also they have dragons and in a cool contest dragons are always cooler than zombies. Season 1 of the Walking Dead is fantastic but then it's all just sort of down hill from there. Instead of leading to something big it's just the same old same old of what's worse the dead or the living. The shock value of a character dies gets old after a while. Plus the no real hope for a better tomorrow eventually makes it's a chore to watch episodes.
Game of Thrones cause gore and boobs... but seriously, i dont get walking dead.. i watch a few episode and it's boring as hell...
if i had to go exclusively to one, i'd say "game of thrones". i like "the walking dead", but it does get repetitive and predictable (like whenever someone contemplates of the past in a room alone) and game of thrones is just a better show. i can go without the nudity though...... one thing i can say for sure..."fear the walking dead" is a s***show. a season and a half go by, not one character i would be upset about dying (be happy about that druggy dying though )
