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GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings
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I don't regret for reading the series. The first three are probably the best scifi ever written. And this is coming from a Malazan homer. And I'm pretty sure he had a hand in making sure the Expanse was made.
If he wants people to stop bugging him, all he has to do is threaten to find a ghostwriter worse then Benioff and Weiss.
If he wants people to stop bugging him, all he has to do is threaten to find a ghostwriter worse then Benioff and Weiss.
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At this point, couldn't an AI chatbot be programmed to read all his novels and notes and then write it? It certainly couldn't be any worse than the script for S8.
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Yes, a misuse of the term. Note that I was comparing the Expanse, Song of Ice and Fire, and Malazan, which span multiple genres. I guess just fiction? But that seems too generic.
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yeah it's fantasy, definitely not sci-fi in the typical sense. Whilst there are science-like elements e.g wildfire = chemistry any understanding of science in the world is based on a crude medieval esque understanding of the world.
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He actually has a conundrum
1) The show revealed how he originally planned the story to go
2) He realized people didn’t like all of it, so now he has to think of new shit while not shitting on everything he wrote before
No one is going to be happy when it comes out.
1) The show revealed how he originally planned the story to go
2) He realized people didn’t like all of it, so now he has to think of new shit while not shitting on everything he wrote before
No one is going to be happy when it comes out.
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I don't think people would have hated the endings and motivations if they got books and books worth of nuance and inner dialogue to justify the decisions. The problem is that the show did so much wrong in the post books seasons that no one was going to accept the ending.
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There's nothing wrong with most of the major story points in the latter seasons. The only exception being the Night King needing a dragon to get past the wall.
The buildup and execution of those story points is what sucked. And most people still think Martin could do that better, hence the nagging.
The buildup and execution of those story points is what sucked. And most people still think Martin could do that better, hence the nagging.
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there is an interview he did around s1-2, where he talks about having plenty of time to finish the books before the series. he thought the released books would take it to season 8.
think something happened around 2014 that just killed his desire to finish.
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It wouldn't surprise me if Martin gave the bullet points to D&D such as Arya the faceless assassin kills Night King ( maybe dying in the process) John kills Danaeris, Bran takes the throne and John goes back to the Wall etc. In and of themselves, with thousands of pages of story, this "could" have been ok.
D&D just said fuck it, we got a new gig and we are outta here.
D&D just said fuck it, we got a new gig and we are outta here.
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gotta give props to Kathleen Kennedy for seeing the instant backlash they got for season 8 finale and just fired their asses during the night. they should have sued her ass for doing something so kneejerk as that, but fuck those guys. (i know the official story is they quit for no reason, but thats bullshit IMO)
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They rushed to end GoTs so they could work on Star Wars. But GoTs ended so bad the Stars Wars project for them was scrapped.
'Game of Thrones' Showrunners Explain Why Their 'Star Wars' Movie Didn't Happen: 'We Weren't the Droids They Were Looking For'
"Game of Thrones" showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have explained why their "Star Wars" movie never happened.
www.thewrap.com
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Caliane
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D&D were hired to do the Starwars sequel trilogy. That deal fell through. lots of rumors why.
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sorry, i thought everyone knew they fast tracked the GoT finale so they could run over to Lucasfilm for their trilogy. supposedly HBO was begging D&D to stick around for a few more seasons, but instead they told everyone to fuck off and did a quick and dirty season 8 to write this shit off so they could make a new Star Wars trilogy, only to have KK tell them to fuck off for shitting GoT up.
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