GoT bigger but Lost started off with something like 15 million viewers in the first season and then petered out.
GoT ended with 17 million, so I feel like it got bigger with time where Lost got smaller with time.
I’d say GoT more significant but Lost was up there.
GOT also has the benefit of the modern social media hyper partisan era breathing more life into it. The kind of epic fail that was the slow slide into oblivion that Lost was had not really been experienced by the Neckbeard generation yet. Really the only comparison would be the Wheel of Time series collapsing into shit and that was super niche. At the point we are now, you have hipsters and nerds alike planning their social calendar around GoT even though everyone openly admits its been a slow slide into dogshit for years. Everyone is familiar with the Lost and Dexter shit shows at the end, so expectations have been couched to a degree. They had this solid arsenal of actors and a blank check from HBO to limp across the finish line. Despite all of this, they still managed to disappoint just about everyone aside from those in denial. They even had leeks from nearly a year ago that gave them a clear indication of how poorly this was going to be received and still opted to bypass doing some reshoots and ship a turd in a box as is.
This is beyond even TLJ levels of failure and with a larger more rabid audience. I mean we are jaded asshole middle age nerds (some of us have not even watched the fucking show) and this thread is moving as fast as the politics thread around here. Now imagine some pansexual poly Portland twat who is so wrapped up in this bullshit that she named her kid Khalissi and worse than that she never has read any of the books so is not braced for how far off the rails it already was years ago. Now multiply that by 17 million and add all of us non-fans that have to listen to the bitching every day like its some lesser version of terminal TDS.
This is the biggest entertainment bed shitting since Heaven's Gate. Even if these guys were capable of creating the next Empire for Disney, the hate they have generated from this half assing will drown it out. HBO is going to get dunked on for the next ten years, especially since they had the complete lack of self awareness to pimp the other franchise that fans are upset about during the finale, as if to drive home how tone deaf they really are. Retarded Millenial fucks are going to whine about this for a decade in ways that will make the Cobain suicide pity party seem quaint in comparison. Its really impressive, actually, and I do not think someone could fuck up this bad on purpose if they set out to do it.
The Arya actress is probably the only one who might walk away from this better off, since the got the fan fic Mary Sue send off and remembered to flash her junk before they closed shop. That's assuming she is not so super batshit that all she does is arthouse softcore bore fests. Dinkage is wrecked after this and even Pixels could not break him. Ned getting ganked S1 is probably the best thing to happen to that guy. Sansa will shit up another Phoenix movie before we never see her again. Cersei was already one of the cuntier actresses out there and she is now too dried up to use her tits to get by. I hope Gods of Egypt residuals were good, because that Jaime guy is probably never getting another role outside of "made for Sci-Fi Network" paycheck work. Ser Phasma better hope their is a large dramas for ugly mannish lesbians market out there or she is going to be stuck playing the girls gym teacher on Oxygen Network for the rest of her career. And Wheels is going to eat more hate than Hayden did for the SW prequals ever had to endure.
This is a failure that will destroy anyone involved with it. If Disney follows through and lets those jackasses do the next SW trilogy, then they will take that franchise down with them too. One movie, tops, is all they are getting. No way the Mouse was as stupid as HBO in giving those dipshits such iron clad contracts. Not even Kathleen Kennedy is that stupid. Her muppet RJ got the hook after one fucking movie. D&D will end their career the exact same way.
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mentioned Jon possibly taking control of the dragons after killing Dany to "forge" his Lightbringer as Azor Ahai did with Nissa Nissa. Hopefully it's something like that goes down in the books but maybe we'll never know. 
