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Game of Thrones or Vikings What is Your Favorite?

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Game of Thrones or Vikings What is Your Favorite?
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My fav is Vikings very interesting twists
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Vikings trumps GOT anytime..The sheer twists and full cast rather than few charcter stories in GOT.
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That's a difficult question to answer. A fairer question would be Vikings vs. The Last Kingdom. I would prefer The Last Kingdom.
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Vikings is more consistent, better ending. Both shows have some weak aspects and to be fair, Thrones has great moments.

As for Valhalla versus House of Dragons, so far, I strongly prefer Valhalla. HOD is grim dark. Focusing on characters with few redeeming qualities does not help it. I like the characters in Valhalla a lot more.
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Came of Thrones of course my favorite
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Vikings all the way :D
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thanks all for share your interest
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João Ramos wrote: 12 Mar 2024, 07:50 That's a difficult question to answer. A fairer question would be Vikings vs. The Last Kingdom. I would prefer The Last Kingdom.
There are a few Vikings shows. Most I have seen do a fair job of working to historical relevance. I love The Last Kingdom too, but it is a little further from history.
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human reader wrote: 14 Mar 2024, 11:12 Vikings is more consistent, better ending. Both shows have some weak aspects and to be fair, Thrones has great moments.

As for Valhalla versus House of Dragons, so far, I strongly prefer Valhalla. HOD is grim dark. Focusing on characters with few redeeming qualities does not help it. I like the characters in Valhalla a lot more.
House of Dragons just isn't as captivating as the original GOT characters.
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wedwilson wrote: 08 Mar 2024, 09:54 Game of Thrones or Vikings What is Your Favorite?
I thought Brittania was really good in the first two seasons. In the third the Roman Governor got too weird and they switched streaming services. I didn't keep up on it.
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Bradley Twesten wrote: 29 Mar 2024, 08:50
human reader wrote: 14 Mar 2024, 11:12 Vikings is more consistent, better ending. Both shows have some weak aspects and to be fair, Thrones has great moments.

As for Valhalla versus House of Dragons, so far, I strongly prefer Valhalla. HOD is grim dark. Focusing on characters with few redeeming qualities does not help it. I like the characters in Valhalla a lot more.
House of Dragons just isn't as captivating as the original GOT characters.
I think House of Dragons can come across as one note sometimes because you lack the more good-natured characters like the Starks, Tyrion, and Sam. Season 2 of HOD could end up better than season 1 but I'm not sure it can reach the heights of GOT.
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GOT - minus the last season.
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Post by Ludovica Peruzzi »

I've never watched Vikings, but I can say Game Of Thrones, for all of its faults, was great television - which gradually got worse over time, because the writers didn't have GRRM's blueprint anymore and couldn't write for themselves. That last season was atrocious.
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Post by Ryan Chofwe »

Honestly Game of thrones and vikings are way too different, vikings mainly focused on raiding while game of thrones focused on politics.
The action in both are good and great battles of course but you must acknowledge the unique characters in game of thrones
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