• RNAi [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    Damn if only he had put an ounce of effort in giving a proper finish to the biggest show fucking ever maybe people would give a shit about it

      • RNAi [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        8 months ago

        I know, my point still stands. had he given those dipshits at least a fucking sketch of how it should end, they wouldn’t have killed what it looked to be a bigger cash cow than StarWars and HarryPotter together

        • autismdragon [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOP
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          8 months ago

          According to interviews he did give them the broad strokes of how it should end, D+D are just so incompetent that he needed to give them a lot more for them to follow. Probably more than he’s even conceptualized yet lol.

          Its interesting though, the stuff in the early seasons that were completely new additions that werent in the source text were actually good. Literally my favorite scene (Robert and Cersei talking about their marriage) isnt in the books. As far as I know, that was a D+D invention. So its weird to me that the same guys who did that couldn’t write without source material later on. Guess they can do detail work like that just fine but not broad arcs? idk.

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            8 months ago

            According to interviews he did give them the broad strokes of how it should end, D+D are just so incompetent that he needed to give them a lot more for them to follow.

            They also literally had a grudge against Emilia Clarke over her renegotiating her contract so she wouldn’t have to do nude scenes anymore back in the second season, which is when they started writing the end of her character’s story as a revenge fantasy against her personally. So it wasn’t even just incompetent writing, but them actively deciding early on to write a weird, misogynistic ending out of spite for an actress not wanting to be naked around them on the set.

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            8 months ago

            I think both HBO and G Martin proposed 10 seasons but D+D refused because they want to make disney films or something.

            That being said, I don’t really care about the books anymore. It has been too long anyway, and I’m not re-reading

    • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      8 months ago

      there’s a 2010 Chinese adaptation of three kingdoms link with english subs that’s really good. The acting and intrigue is on par with early game of thrones but it’s funded by a culture endowment so there’s way less uncomfortable sex stuff and they don’t phone in the end

    • Game of Thrones ended before its source material with some non-sequitur statement about the nature of stories. Now all we need is a Kingkiller Chronicles adaptation that gets really popular and ends with some non-sequitur political killings of main characters.