Pitch Meeting is at least bringing up actual problems with Game of Thrones season 8. But I dare you to tell if early Game of Thrones was better or worse than season 8, based on the Pitch Meeting.
That’s gonna be super easy, barely an inconvenience. The video for S8 not only feels more critical than usual, it gives specific examples of negative changes from previous seasons, plus a causal explanation (albeit partial) that the video keeps coming back to. One might even say the characters harp on their explanation for S8 being worse than early seasons.
Also, looking at the PM video on GOT up to that point, the chief criticism I find (and this once it seems like pretty explicit criticism of the art in question) seems to be about the show getting old and also worse as it goes on. Actual quote:
Well, eventually we’re going to start running out of main characters, in later seasons, so they’re all going to develop pretty thick plot armor.
Of course, whether that makes the early seasons better or whether their failures took a while to become obvious is a difficult question. PM seems to suggest the former, given their fairly blatant assertion that S8 is worse due to being inexplicably rushed. However, that is technically a different question. It leaves open the possibility that the showrunners’ ultimate failure was determined by their approach at the start, as the earlier video suggested.
That’s gonna be super easy, barely an inconvenience. The video for S8 not only feels more critical than usual, it gives specific examples of negative changes from previous seasons, plus a causal explanation (albeit partial) that the video keeps coming back to. One might even say the characters harp on their explanation for S8 being worse than early seasons.
Also, looking at the PM video on GOT up to that point, the chief criticism I find (and this once it seems like pretty explicit criticism of the art in question) seems to be about the show getting old and also worse as it goes on. Actual quote:
Of course, whether that makes the early seasons better or whether their failures took a while to become obvious is a difficult question. PM seems to suggest the former, given their fairly blatant assertion that S8 is worse due to being inexplicably rushed. However, that is technically a different question. It leaves open the possibility that the showrunners’ ultimate failure was determined by their approach at the start, as the earlier video suggested.