'Game of Thrones' Dialogue Data Reveals How Little Characters Spoke in Later Seasons

• Last weekend, after eight seasons and almost a decade on the air, Game of Thrones (opens in new tab) aired its final episode. Not all fans were pleased with the way the show's long-running battle for the Iron Throne was resolved—or with the fates of their favorite characters. 
• According to data from opensubtitles.org (opens in new tab), over the years, the number of words spoken in each episode of Game of Thrones declined sharply, especially in the final seasons of the show. 
• Fans took to Twitter to react to the data, which served as proof that the changes in the show weren't just in their imagination after all.

Game of Thrones (opens in new tab) came to an end last week and many fans were, well, less than thrilled with the show's ending. Whatever you happened to think of the ending, the widely-held perception that the show had changed in some real way in the last few years isn't wrong.

According to data from opensubtitles.org (opens in new tab), the show's dialogue underwent some major changes over the years. Namely, the number of words spoken per episode plummeted.

Github user mrquart (opens in new tab) took the data and plotted it into a chart (the code for the chart is available here (opens in new tab)) and many fans shared the graphic on Twitter. Here's the graph:

Some fans on Twitter had jokes:

While others defended the declining dialogue stats:

And then there were those who defended the lack of dialogue, but still planted themselves firmly on Team Game of Thrones Took a Nosedive:

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