Game of Thrones (HBO) TV Show • Page 491

Or when they first met with him he tripped and spilled a manilla folder full of documents and D&D noticed “R+L=J” written all over one of them

 

From what I understand the Night King is kindasorta vaguely alluded to in the books, but so far only appears in the show. It's possible there might not be a Night King in the books, but that Arya will still turn the tide in the battle when the army of the dead strike. This seems to be heavily foreshadowed in both the novels and show.

He officially left the show because of creative differences around season 4. A couple weeks ago I was trying to figure out "Why doesn't he just fuckin write seasons 7-8?", and someone linked me an article going into how a lot of those differences were because the scripts he wrote were quite a bit longer than regular scripts and required expanded budget and usually took several months per episode to finish. And from GRRM's perspective I guess it does kinda seem unlikely that with his slow and maximalist writing style he would have much fun authoring a streamlined visual medium adaptation of his novels before writing them.

 

Honestly I think GRRM and D&D screwed each other over. You don't have the show without the books and GRRM isn't nearly as well off without the show.

Once the show ran out of source material and starting taking more and more creative liberties, it felt rushed and poorly contrived. It's to the point that no matter how it ends, lots of people are going to be dissatisfied.

GRRM messed up by not finishing the books first. Now, no matter what happens, whatever he ends up writing (IF he actually finishes it) will forever be compared to how the show ends. What if the show ending sucks and fans hate it? Well, then maybe he writes a different ending, even if D&D use the ending he told them about. Or what if the show knocks it out of the park in the end? He's gonna try to write something just as good or better, and it will fall short of expectations.

Worst case and most likely scenario: the show ends in a way that pisses everyone off and GRRM never finishes the book and the whole thing is a case study on wasted potential for years to come.

 

Omg I hope the ending of the show sucks and GRRM makes a different ending for the books and acts all like “Yeah honestly idk what the fuck those guys were doing like jfc I never would have done it like that what fuckin amateurs”

 

Liam Cunningham (Davos) just did this on Conan lol

 

I don’t buy Jon calling Daenarys “Dany”. It sounds so weird when he says it

 

I never bought anyone doing it. It was always weird to me that that was a thing.

 

It's called being efficient drop a syllable and get on with it

 

This is also my ranking except Rectify is in there

 

Of course the best character/actor on the show did it

 

Davos better survive, is all I’m saying

 

Wouldn't mind him on the throne with everyone else dead at the end.

 

Davos would be too smart to try and sit on the throne and rule. He'd realize it's time for a sea change in how things should run and mix shit up.

 

It’s a new day and I’m still hoping those leaks last night were an elaborate troll job like a year in the making.

 

I am really hoping this too.

 

Isn’t it what her brother called her? Besides that, throughout the whole show she’s only ever interacted with those who serve her or those who oppose her, so it makes sense that nobody else has referred to her using a nickname like that

 

I refer to her as Dany because I don't know how to spell her full name.

 

People IRL do it all the time

 

I refer to her as Dany irl because I don't know how to pronounce her full name.

 

I refer to her as Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, First of Her Name, the Unburnt, Queen of the Andals and the First Men, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, Breaker of Chains, and Mother of Dragons.

 

Yeah bc that's how the book narration refers to her

 

I know and have seen many people who have never read a word of the books refer to her only as Dany.

 

Are people gatekeeping using nicknames now?

 

got a link?

 

I woke up mad because of them