OU Ariakas
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It's actually 5.940 Million in pounds sterling. The exchange rate is hovering around 1.7 USD to 1 GPB. Still crazy, but not the 3.3 USD to 1 GPB ratio you have
EDIT: Fuck the VAT. That is all.
GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
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Not all the actors started with season one, they could do an eight season more easily than later ones because of this. And a fair number of the season one actors' characters are deceased.
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All the major actor roles in the show have been there since S1: Stark kids (except Rickon, but who gives a shit), Jaime+Cersei, Dany, Tyrion. Heck, even the supporting stuff (Jorah, Varys, Littlefinger, Theon, HODOR).
Tiny role #10 isn't what gets the money, it's the major characters who are completely integral to the story. You can't recast Arya or Jaime or Tyrion without people flipping their shit.
Tiny role #10 isn't what gets the money, it's the major characters who are completely integral to the story. You can't recast Arya or Jaime or Tyrion without people flipping their shit.
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Well, season 2 was very obviously compressed (see Pullo's wife being pregnant for years). It should have been split into two seasons, with a proper season 2 dealing with the fallout of Caesar's death and the war vs. Brutus and Cassius, and then season 3 being the schism between Octavian and Mark Antony.
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I wonder how strong HBO's negotiating position would be since each character gets such little actual screentime per season. Season 3 Tyrion was on screen the most by a wide margin and he was only there1 hour and 10 minutes 38 seconds total. Next highest was Dany at 50 minutes.
Season 4 it's even less,56 minutes total for Tyrion as the highest and only 7 characters over a half hour total(2 of them now dead).As integral as all these characters are it's got to hurt your position a bit to have such low screentime. It's got to be easy to argue someone down from a million+ an episode when they are on screen for less than 6 minutes a week.
Season 4 it's even less,56 minutes total for Tyrion as the highest and only 7 characters over a half hour total(2 of them now dead).As integral as all these characters are it's got to hurt your position a bit to have such low screentime. It's got to be easy to argue someone down from a million+ an episode when they are on screen for less than 6 minutes a week.
Cybsled
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I'm sure they could take that stance, but at the end of the day it comes down to "If you don't play ball, I walk...and recasting isn't going to fly".
This show doesn't go past 7 seasons. Besides, do we REALLY want it to? If you chop the fat from Martin's books, the core story isn't that sweeping. People need to understand that cutting in adaptations isn't a bad thing, otherwise you get stuff like the new Hobbit trilogy.
This show doesn't go past 7 seasons. Besides, do we REALLY want it to? If you chop the fat from Martin's books, the core story isn't that sweeping. People need to understand that cutting in adaptations isn't a bad thing, otherwise you get stuff like the new Hobbit trilogy.
Cad
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Whats wrong with 7 seasons of GoT? Maybe it'll move the story along to a conclusion rather than foundering for 2 whole fucking books of no action. Yea, yea, some things have happened. But all the big families are in basically the same shape they were at the end of SoS.
That is a terrible example. The hobbit is like 80 pages long and would easily make one movie with no cuts. The fiasco of the trilogy is pure greed, they have been inventing shitloads of filler to pad it out.
GoT is more like deciding to do Lord of the rings and then after the first movie wrap it up in single one hour movie because most of the second and third book is boring anyway.
It might be awesome anyway, seems a shame though. Of course lots of TV series outstay their welcome and ruin their legacy ( see heroes ) so you never can tell for sure I guess.
Cybsled
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Point being is that if you stretch for the sake of stretching (ie, for the money), your story suffers. Martin himself is guilty of this...books 4 and 5 are chock full of filler. I don't want GoT to go away, heck if they could go forever that would be awesome. But I would rather see it have solid season after solid season vs. degenerating into mediocre shit that virtually every TV series that goes on too long becomes.
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Why on earth anyone would want this to go more than 7 seasons is beyond me. Say they find the money to make it happen, the show sits on the edge of profitability, they start filming the extraneous filler, viewership tanks and it gets cancelled. Grats you never get the ending. Maybe HBO out of the goodness of their hearts gives them half a season "miniseries" to rush an ending out.
I mean, I dunno about you but im not exactly betting on a 300+ lb 4'11" 60+ year old to make it to 80 so he has enough time to finish the novels.
I mean, I dunno about you but im not exactly betting on a 300+ lb 4'11" 60+ year old to make it to 80 so he has enough time to finish the novels.
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its best to just not think about the next book taking forever. this way when/if this series ever gets completed you wont be so agitated it took so long. when stephen king started his Dark Tower series i had to wait some godawfully long time for the next book to come out.
and keep in mind that wizard and glass was mostly prequel and the story barely moved an inch along.
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George Lopez explained the seven seasons thing on Howard stern earlier this year and it has everything to do with syndication. The actors know after that the studio will make money hand over fist so everyone renegotiates their contracts and goes for as much money as they can. He said something like everyone hires an accountant to go through he shows numbers and figure out how much the show will make in syndication and then just demand a huge amount and it usually works when all the actors holdout together.
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According to the experts at rerolled.org it never works because the studios always just cancel the show when this happens, making it a totally awesome strategy for the actors to all be out of a job.
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