GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings
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Loser Araysar
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Just rewatched all 8 seasons over the past 10 days and it holds up pretty well. I remember being pretty buttmad over the ending when it first aired, but a year later I was OK with it.
The only thing that still makes me buttmad is the nonstop halfassing of military strategy in every battle, especially in The Battle for Winterfell and Battle for King's Landing.
Like who the fuck charges head on into the dark night against a countless enemy when you have the disadvantage in numbers and are defending a castle?
Same for KIng's Landing. Herp derp, we are defending a city and we have the advantage of walls, gates, etc. so lets form up the Golden Company outside of the gates so we can just completely throw that advantage away.
The only thing that still makes me buttmad is the nonstop halfassing of military strategy in every battle, especially in The Battle for Winterfell and Battle for King's Landing.
Like who the fuck charges head on into the dark night against a countless enemy when you have the disadvantage in numbers and are defending a castle?
Same for KIng's Landing. Herp derp, we are defending a city and we have the advantage of walls, gates, etc. so lets form up the Golden Company outside of the gates so we can just completely throw that advantage away.
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The last season sucked donkey nuts. You don't have to try and defend it. Bran the Broken on the throne? Booooooooo.
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Furry
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Gavinmad
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I mean this isn't a technically a false statement. It's not like it has gotten worse over the years.
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Honestly does anyone give a shit to read his novels from this point forward?
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Sterling
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I'm sure I'd read it, but honestly at this point I'm mostly indifferent.
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Chukzombi
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he's so old and he painted himself into such a retarded corner by introducing so many characters with their own arcs. i said this before, but there is no fucking way he will ever finish the series. even if he manages to come up with the 2 more books. he wont be able to tie this all in a bow, there will be loose ends or he will rush it all to fit it into 2 books. but yeah he's never finishing it. wasnt the last book basically the other half of A feast For Crows(2005)? so he sat on his ass years before 2011 and he still hasnt finished the next book. he bamboozled those guys at HBO into thinking he would have a book for them by season 5 or 6 and now they think he's gonna have some other shit ready for them when they do the new GoT? lol
and to answer the question, i dont care anymore. i already forgot a lot of the lore and what i remember was tainted by the tv show.
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jayrebb
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if he wants to continue his relationship with HBO i'd hire some serviceable ghostwriters behind HBO's back, allowing HBO to put the GRRM stamp on something thats decent. That way they can say its all written by GRRM and sell it as a course-correct from Season 8.
failure to do this is going to be catastrophic as the next banker sons producer twats are going to write their own version again.
If Westworld can't find footing I don't see the new GoT series doing much better numbers wise, unless there is a major selling point or hook of some kind. IDK what the hook is going to be.
failure to do this is going to be catastrophic as the next banker sons producer twats are going to write their own version again.
If Westworld can't find footing I don't see the new GoT series doing much better numbers wise, unless there is a major selling point or hook of some kind. IDK what the hook is going to be.
spronk
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i'm curious how bad was the new show they actually FILMED a pilot for. I think its the one that takes place like 1000 years ago in Asshai and shit before that place blew up, when dragons and magic were common.
Given the list of absolute hot garbage HBO has released in the last year - I may destroy You, American Pickle, Euphoria, last season of Westworld - i am morbidly curious as to how bad a Game of Thrones show could have been that HBO execs watched it and said "oh shit, cancel the whole thing"
Given the list of absolute hot garbage HBO has released in the last year - I may destroy You, American Pickle, Euphoria, last season of Westworld - i am morbidly curious as to how bad a Game of Thrones show could have been that HBO execs watched it and said "oh shit, cancel the whole thing"
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Mudcrush Durtfeet
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Until such time as a new book actually comes out, I have no interest whatsoever in GRRM's comments.
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kegkilla
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The whole series is released on 4K blu ray in a few months. Should have waited until then to rewatch. The transfer is supposed to be excellent.
GRRM is a genius, there's no denying that. Just look at the dumpster fire the TV show became after they got ahead of the books. But yeah, he's never going to finish the series, and even if he does manage to finish it by some miracle, my opinion of GOT is permanently tainted by how fucking awful the last 2 seasons were. Even if the books go in another direction, I don't really care enough to even read them at this point.
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Asshai did not blow up, Valyria did. Asshai is basically Westeros' equivalent of the Far East.
3 of the best books ever written(in this genre) followed by 2 above average books followed by a TV show that ended with some combination of a wet fart and a death gurgle is what made seasons 6-8 so infuriating. It's likely the only ending we'll get.
Even more infuriating is that tubs o lard has a cheat sheet. GoT showrunners basically showed him what not to do. And it's been picked the fuck to death. Mauler has hours of critique on season 8 alone.
I'm interested in an ending to the written series. I'm not expecting one.
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