Game of Thrones (HBO) TV Show • Page 629

Still mad they didn't give him the weird green beard and all that flamboyant stuff he had in the books

 

It's for the best probably. I think it was an orange beard with a blue mustache. Or maybe vice versa.

 

Shocked this hasn’t been posted yet. It’s all over Twitter. Long thread, but worth reading all of it.

 

It’s a good insight into what they were dealing with. Ending of the show was far from perfect, but people being so up in arms about the fantasy aspects being toned down is silly. The show pulled so many for being more grounded with hints of supernatural.

Also, in being mad they didn’t continuously read reactions to the show as it went on? Really? What artist in any form does this to themselves? I think the diehards of the books refuse to acknowledge the process of doing something like a multi million dollar show for arguably the biggest television network ever.

 

The part about each episode being 39 minutes until HBO forced them to do more character-based stuff is wild. It really sounds like HBO blindly trusted these budding writers to make gold. Also the comments about writing episodes themselves, only having one woman on staff, one asian... yeeeeeeesh.

 

Yeah while they’re assholes the issue here is less with what they did and more with how HBO/other producers are willing to let unproven, mediocre white dudes have carte blanche to do what they want (see: Colin Treverrow) when non-white, non-male creators have to continuously prove themselves over and over again and really fight for funding

 

You mean just in the writing staff and not altogether right? Cause there were women involved in other major positions of development.

I understand that criticism and it’s a terrible look for them. This was a project these two had been passionate about for years though, and wanted to do as a project together. I don’t how I would react to or process spectators telling me you should be delegating and giving others creative control over your project that you worked to get.

These two shared the interest together back in 2006 and spent two years talking/working with Martin to come to an agreement. Martin chose them and gave the green light because they were the first to present him with an adaptation he deemed worthy of his project. Many others before them wanted to do shallow nutshell movies or cable tv, neither of which he was interested in.

 

I get that. But having a diverse writing staff is essential to any show, especially if the entire thematic drive is to write "a show about power and its pitfalls."

 

Booooo

 

Wtf

 

That is shocking. Shit

 

Is this like a monkey’s paw thing where someone wished for D&D to lose SW and this was the price?

 

it’s gotta be pretty fucking bad for them to do that

 

Wow. Genuinely surprised they decided not to move forward. Yeah must’ve been a preeeetty bad pilot to cancel a pretty guaranteed money maker.

 

just came to post this. Holy shit.

they must have gotten a much better treatment from this team and said fuck it and just decided to drop the other show for this one, because that was a really quick turn around

 

With all the money HBO is spending acquiring content for HBO Max, I am not entirely surprised that they are not going to produce a new GOT show that would probably cost millions per episode

 

well....they just announced a different one

 

They didn't just create the show today, lol. Regardless of what other shows HBO is currently working on, the decision to not make the Naomi one saves them a shit ton of money

 

Give me big Balerion

 

I hope they do it as an “anthology” of sorts where they spend a season on different parts of the House Targaryen history, because then we’d def get Balerion.

But I think the general consensus is this will be about the Dance, which means no Balerion ....it would mean we get to meet Vhagar and Vermithor though, two of the most badass dragons

 

Kind of a rough day in the GoT world... I am actually bummed. I was much more excited about the Naomi Watts show that was set waaay back in the past with the green wood elf looking people than I am about anything even remotely close to the GoT time period.

At the end of the day though, I don't think they should even be doing any GoT prequels at all... I think the best way to make the 'next Game of Thrones' is to just keep making high quality programs and see what catches on. For HBO or any of the other networks, streaming platforms, content creators, etc. It was such a huge cultural phenomenon.

 

Some news of it in here: 'Game of Thrones' Prequel 'House of the Dragon' Gets HBO Series Order

 

The world GRRM built is just so rich with material at this point that any network would be foolish not to try and cash in on it considering they now have demonstrated widespread interest in said world. I think calling it a 'prequel' almost does it a disservice in terms of how connected it would be to the current day events of Game of Thrones. Unless they do a series on Robert's Rebellion, most of these shows would be more like companions to the Game of Thrones "extended universe" than true prequels