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Originally Posted by TurnedTheCorner
Nah, you're wrong about GoT. It's not "overrated". It's excellent. It doesn't suddenly become excellent when X number of episodes have been produced or Y number of seasons have been completed.
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Excellent right now, sure. But many, many, many shows have been great during their early seasons. Lost and Heroes would be great examples of that. For both shows I remember people saying that they were already among the all-time greats after one or two seasons. Well that sure changed in short order, since both were unable to maintain the same quality for the duration of the shows. Heck in the case of Heroes it really only had one great season, and yet still people still expected it to be just as great going forward.
Once GoT starts tying up storylines, and has maintained a certain level of quality for a few years people will still have high expectations for it, and the quality will not be able to decrease in any way. Just look at the first half of Season Six of the Sopranos; while in general it was a decent season, most people were quite disappointed in how it measured up to previous seasons, and it's not held in the same regard because of that.
Then of course there is The Simpsons, Family Guy, Dexter, Seinfeld, Arrested Development, and The X-Files itself all which declined in quality during later seasons, and some of them are not regarded as highly because of it. It's really too early to call Game of Thrones the greatest show of all time. Perhaps overrated isn't the best word to use, but we should wait a couple more years to give it such a title.
As for The X-Files the acting and writing separates it apart from most science fiction shows imo. That and it worked in so many ways, whether they were trying to emulate Twin Peaks, or in the later seasons when they made some great comedic episodes. I would also say Anderson and Duchovny had more chemistry than any duo in television history. It's no wonder so many of the main crew members have moved on to other great shows (like Vince Gillian and Breaking Bad). Although they never were really able to wrap up the "myth-arc" storyline in the right way, which again goes towards the fact that it's a lot more difficult to create great endings, than it is to write great beginnings.