Game of Thrones (HBO) TV Show • Page 558

i think they could have stood to do more but i think they put a visible amount of effort into what they did produce, regardless of if it's good

 

No offense, but it sounds like your friend isn't coming up with any opinions on their own but just parroting tired upvoted comments on reddit.

 

I'm sure it's been said somewhere, but I think they should have taken this the "Breaking Bad"/"Mad Men"/"Sopranos" route and done a split 6/6-episode run where the first half is the lead up to The Long Night and the second half is Cersei/Dany's ruin. They could easily massage out a lot of these problems that I'm not sure why they didn't do that.

 

Part of me thinks that maybe I've been enjoying this season because I don't go on Reddit lol

 

Social media has ruined any sense of nuance and normal conversation for stuff like this.

 

D&D just wanted out ASAP. No point trying to get inside their heads about exactly why, but that’s the answer. Everyone else was on board but they held all the cards.

 

no i feel the same way he's a dumbass

 

This can be applied to most aspects of one's life.

 

Yeah, that makes sense. So dumb.

 

the thing is i have a fair amount of unfounded confidence that all of these plot choices have been in the oven for a while and even if they took four more episodes and a couple of months more time on them the decisions would still be dissatisfying, although perhaps to a lesser degree. i think this is pretty much what we were going to get regardless, it's not like the last two seasons weren't riddled with their own flaws

 

to be fair, the main Game of Thrones sub is largely alright. its /r/freefolk that's a bunch of shitty edgelords

 

r/freefolk is complete anarchy and honestly i have a certain amount of respect for that. the memes and posts are good, the subsequent comments are always terrible

 

Fuck

https://news.avclub.com/the-next-star-wars-movie-is-from-the-game-of-thrones-gu-1834750918

 

I'm not worried about their Star Wars movie(s) being bad at all. Like, at worst, it will be "pretty good" or something.

 

they are gonna tarnish the golden Star Wars spinoff set by Solo

 

The Star Wars movies already run the gamut from great to terrible so it doesn't really matter how good their movie is in the long run

 

I think for Dany and Jaime specifically, different choices throughout the series and a greater focus and time to breathe in 7 and 8 would really have made a tremendous difference.

 

Regarding SW, as long as they have the story planned from the start and have a complete vision throughout the trilogy, I'm not too worried.

With this show, it's a different situation because they signed on to adapt this book series (which they did amazing) but ending up having to write one of them instead because GRR's delay in everything lol.

 

I don’t get why people think they will ruin Star Wars. Like Disney isn’t going to have the final say on everything

 

D&D's problem is they don't know how to run something. They will NOT be running the show with Star Wars. They won't even be directly below the person running the show.

 

Exactly.

 

Disney can make bad movies. They make a lot of them.

I find it hard to care about their SW movie outside of there is a long list of writers and directors I think would be more interesting with that property

 

What? Didn't they run the whole GoT series including all the seasons people love?

I'm all for shitting on them dropping the ball a number of times lately but I'm not going to talk like they are completely incapable of anything now.

 

i agree with that but i dont think there's any amount of narrative focus in 8 that would make up for what happened in 7 if that makes any sense. i dont think this season had any chance of getting where we are in a satisfying way considering what got us here. i definitely agree that things should have been improved upon sooner than now

how long have D&D been attached to Star Wars? is season seven's decline attributed to that as well?

 

I’m definitely nervous about SW, but I also care about the main story up through 9 a million percent more than the EU or universe in general, so I’m not freaking out as much. I would rather have almost anyone helming them, but I will still hope for the best for the sake of SW fans.