Game of Thrones

[BlackFlag]

That's the plan.

I was hoping for a better ending to this saga, but oh well.

When you turn on the TV you get what Hollywood gives you. Most of the time it sucks.

I suspect that if any of us had the opportunity to talk to either Dumb or Dumber about Season 8 they would tell us they gave us a spectacular ending. After all visually it has been great and we all know it took over a year to make and cost a ton of money.

However, neither one of them would have a clue as to why we were disappointed. After all they gave us the Hollywood formula. What could possibly go wrong?

Once they went off of Martin's script and started to make up their own story it was destined to suck.

Martin is an asshole and a Moon Bat slob but he was a genius creating the world and a rich story. Dumb and Dumber just typical Hollywood scrip writers. Their next project will probably be Mod Squad II or something.

That's nice.

I had expectations and I've been disappointed.

It is NOT the end of the world, nor even the end of the day.

I watch and read with the expectation of being entertained by a story, complete with all the elements that go into a story. If the story sucks, I put it down and stop reading, or change the channel. If the story is great, I read or watch all of it, then I process the story internally and assess if I am satisfied with the outcome.

If I am, I recommend it to people who ask or who are interested in recommendations on movies or books.

If I am not, I bitch about it as every person on the planet does.

So far, A Song of Fire and Ice has been a good series of stories and I look forward to finishing it. Game of Thrones, while having its problems, was entertaining and worthy of the time taken out of a busy day to watch and be entertained.

Until this season.

It seems that the vast majority of the people who were into GoT are also very disappointed in the ending. They, like Me, are expressing dissatisfaction with the way this was wrapped up.

Seems like we are holding to tradition, as we should. The reasons for its bad ending are just speculation but based upon some reasonable issues that have plagued this season.

The consequences to HBO may or may not be significant, but one thing is certain. They should relearn the concept that people get invested in storylines and they'd do well to not cut corners when bringing them to an end.

I think the consequences to HBO are immense

They are looking at the loss of their biggest ratings draw and are proposing three or four sequels

If the loyal fans feel betrayed or lost interest in the storylines, they will not be back

I sat through eight seasons for this?

I have no interest in the prequels. The night king ended up being trash and I can’t possibly care about him and pretend he’s some big baddie.

Yet youll be here complaining about every episode as they come out. Youre the guy who complains about a show he never misses and episode of.

Have I complained about Star Wars since Last Jedi? Go suck a cock, idiot.

 

[rightwinger]

That's the plan.

I was hoping for a better ending to this saga, but oh well.

When you turn on the TV you get what Hollywood gives you. Most of the time it sucks.

I suspect that if any of us had the opportunity to talk to either Dumb or Dumber about Season 8 they would tell us they gave us a spectacular ending. After all visually it has been great and we all know it took over a year to make and cost a ton of money.

However, neither one of them would have a clue as to why we were disappointed. After all they gave us the Hollywood formula. What could possibly go wrong?

Once they went off of Martin's script and started to make up their own story it was destined to suck.

Martin is an asshole and a Moon Bat slob but he was a genius creating the world and a rich story. Dumb and Dumber just typical Hollywood scrip writers. Their next project will probably be Mod Squad II or something.

That's nice.

I had expectations and I've been disappointed.

It is NOT the end of the world, nor even the end of the day.

I watch and read with the expectation of being entertained by a story, complete with all the elements that go into a story. If the story sucks, I put it down and stop reading, or change the channel. If the story is great, I read or watch all of it, then I process the story internally and assess if I am satisfied with the outcome.

If I am, I recommend it to people who ask or who are interested in recommendations on movies or books.

If I am not, I bitch about it as every person on the planet does.

So far, A Song of Fire and Ice has been a good series of stories and I look forward to finishing it. Game of Thrones, while having its problems, was entertaining and worthy of the time taken out of a busy day to watch and be entertained.

Until this season.

It seems that the vast majority of the people who were into GoT are also very disappointed in the ending. They, like Me, are expressing dissatisfaction with the way this was wrapped up.

Seems like we are holding to tradition, as we should. The reasons for its bad ending are just speculation but based upon some reasonable issues that have plagued this season.

The consequences to HBO may or may not be significant, but one thing is certain. They should relearn the concept that people get invested in storylines and they'd do well to not cut corners when bringing them to an end.

I think the consequences to HBO are immense

They are looking at the loss of their biggest ratings draw and are proposing three or four sequels

If the loyal fans feel betrayed or lost interest in the storylines, they will not be back

I sat through eight seasons for this?

I have no interest in the prequels. The night king ended up being trash and I can’t possibly care about him and pretend he’s some big baddie.

Yet youll be here complaining about every episode as they come out. Youre the guy who complains about a show he never misses and episode of.

After eight seasons, I will watch the final episode. I have that much invested

But HBO will have a hard time convincing me that I should get wrapped up in any of the prequels

I really don’t fear the White Walkers and don’t care about Family Lannister, Stark, Taegarean or any of the others

 

[impuretrash]

When you turn on the TV you get what Hollywood gives you. Most of the time it sucks.

I suspect that if any of us had the opportunity to talk to either Dumb or Dumber about Season 8 they would tell us they gave us a spectacular ending. After all visually it has been great and we all know it took over a year to make and cost a ton of money.

However, neither one of them would have a clue as to why we were disappointed. After all they gave us the Hollywood formula. What could possibly go wrong?

Once they went off of Martin's script and started to make up their own story it was destined to suck.

Martin is an asshole and a Moon Bat slob but he was a genius creating the world and a rich story. Dumb and Dumber just typical Hollywood scrip writers. Their next project will probably be Mod Squad II or something.

That's nice.

I had expectations and I've been disappointed.

It is NOT the end of the world, nor even the end of the day.

I watch and read with the expectation of being entertained by a story, complete with all the elements that go into a story. If the story sucks, I put it down and stop reading, or change the channel. If the story is great, I read or watch all of it, then I process the story internally and assess if I am satisfied with the outcome.

If I am, I recommend it to people who ask or who are interested in recommendations on movies or books.

If I am not, I bitch about it as every person on the planet does.

So far, A Song of Fire and Ice has been a good series of stories and I look forward to finishing it. Game of Thrones, while having its problems, was entertaining and worthy of the time taken out of a busy day to watch and be entertained.

Until this season.

It seems that the vast majority of the people who were into GoT are also very disappointed in the ending. They, like Me, are expressing dissatisfaction with the way this was wrapped up.

Seems like we are holding to tradition, as we should. The reasons for its bad ending are just speculation but based upon some reasonable issues that have plagued this season.

The consequences to HBO may or may not be significant, but one thing is certain. They should relearn the concept that people get invested in storylines and they'd do well to not cut corners when bringing them to an end.

I think the consequences to HBO are immense

They are looking at the loss of their biggest ratings draw and are proposing three or four sequels

If the loyal fans feel betrayed or lost interest in the storylines, they will not be back

I sat through eight seasons for this?

I have no interest in the prequels. The night king ended up being trash and I can’t possibly care about him and pretend he’s some big baddie.

Yet youll be here complaining about every episode as they come out. Youre the guy who complains about a show he never misses and episode of.

After eight seasons, I will watch the final episode. I have that much invested

But HBO will have a hard time convincing me that I should get wrapped up in any of the prequels

I really don’t fear the White Walkers and don’t care about Family Lannister, Stark, Taegarean or any of the others

The prequels are gonna be Hollywood superhero-esque trash, no doubt about it.

Hopefully GoT's success influences more epic-fantasy novel adaptations in the future. This time based on stories that are complete so perverted idiot hollywood heebs have a well established narrative to work from instead of making shit up as they go along to please focus groups.

 

[Darkwind]

Did someone actually use the words, "cutting corners" in describing this?

Un.

Fucking.

Believable.

They spent more on each of these episodes than is spent on most full-length feature films.

As for subscriptions, remember that series like this draw subscriptions IN ADVANCE, with people either seeing the earlier seasons, or hearing by word of mouth how enjoyable it was. They sign up for HBO specifically to see Game of Thrones. A little disappointment with plot lines won't mean anything in terms of subscriber revenue.

As I said above, the reason why they are truncating the resolution of all story lines is because they don't have three more seasons to get it done.

Good lord. Yes, because spending money foolishly means they did not cut corners.


Un-fucking-believable.

 

[Godboy]

When you turn on the TV you get what Hollywood gives you. Most of the time it sucks.

I suspect that if any of us had the opportunity to talk to either Dumb or Dumber about Season 8 they would tell us they gave us a spectacular ending. After all visually it has been great and we all know it took over a year to make and cost a ton of money.

However, neither one of them would have a clue as to why we were disappointed. After all they gave us the Hollywood formula. What could possibly go wrong?

Once they went off of Martin's script and started to make up their own story it was destined to suck.

Martin is an asshole and a Moon Bat slob but he was a genius creating the world and a rich story. Dumb and Dumber just typical Hollywood scrip writers. Their next project will probably be Mod Squad II or something.

That's nice.

I had expectations and I've been disappointed.

It is NOT the end of the world, nor even the end of the day.

I watch and read with the expectation of being entertained by a story, complete with all the elements that go into a story. If the story sucks, I put it down and stop reading, or change the channel. If the story is great, I read or watch all of it, then I process the story internally and assess if I am satisfied with the outcome.

If I am, I recommend it to people who ask or who are interested in recommendations on movies or books.

If I am not, I bitch about it as every person on the planet does.

So far, A Song of Fire and Ice has been a good series of stories and I look forward to finishing it. Game of Thrones, while having its problems, was entertaining and worthy of the time taken out of a busy day to watch and be entertained.

Until this season.

It seems that the vast majority of the people who were into GoT are also very disappointed in the ending. They, like Me, are expressing dissatisfaction with the way this was wrapped up.

Seems like we are holding to tradition, as we should. The reasons for its bad ending are just speculation but based upon some reasonable issues that have plagued this season.

The consequences to HBO may or may not be significant, but one thing is certain. They should relearn the concept that people get invested in storylines and they'd do well to not cut corners when bringing them to an end.

I think the consequences to HBO are immense

They are looking at the loss of their biggest ratings draw and are proposing three or four sequels

If the loyal fans feel betrayed or lost interest in the storylines, they will not be back

I sat through eight seasons for this?

I have no interest in the prequels. The night king ended up being trash and I can’t possibly care about him and pretend he’s some big baddie.

Yet youll be here complaining about every episode as they come out. Youre the guy who complains about a show he never misses and episode of.

After eight seasons, I will watch the final episode. I have that much invested

But HBO will have a hard time convincing me that I should get wrapped up in any of the prequels

I really don’t fear the White Walkers and don’t care about Family Lannister, Stark, Taegarean or any of the others

There wont be white walkers in the prequal. It will be before the Night King was created. I assume he will be created at the end of that series.

 

[Flash]

 

[rightwinger]

That's nice.

I had expectations and I've been disappointed.

It is NOT the end of the world, nor even the end of the day.

I watch and read with the expectation of being entertained by a story, complete with all the elements that go into a story. If the story sucks, I put it down and stop reading, or change the channel. If the story is great, I read or watch all of it, then I process the story internally and assess if I am satisfied with the outcome.

If I am, I recommend it to people who ask or who are interested in recommendations on movies or books.

If I am not, I bitch about it as every person on the planet does.

So far, A Song of Fire and Ice has been a good series of stories and I look forward to finishing it. Game of Thrones, while having its problems, was entertaining and worthy of the time taken out of a busy day to watch and be entertained.

Until this season.

It seems that the vast majority of the people who were into GoT are also very disappointed in the ending. They, like Me, are expressing dissatisfaction with the way this was wrapped up.

Seems like we are holding to tradition, as we should. The reasons for its bad ending are just speculation but based upon some reasonable issues that have plagued this season.

The consequences to HBO may or may not be significant, but one thing is certain. They should relearn the concept that people get invested in storylines and they'd do well to not cut corners when bringing them to an end.

I think the consequences to HBO are immense

They are looking at the loss of their biggest ratings draw and are proposing three or four sequels

If the loyal fans feel betrayed or lost interest in the storylines, they will not be back

I sat through eight seasons for this?

I have no interest in the prequels. The night king ended up being trash and I can’t possibly care about him and pretend he’s some big baddie.

Yet youll be here complaining about every episode as they come out. Youre the guy who complains about a show he never misses and episode of.

After eight seasons, I will watch the final episode. I have that much invested

But HBO will have a hard time convincing me that I should get wrapped up in any of the prequels

I really don’t fear the White Walkers and don’t care about Family Lannister, Stark, Taegarean or any of the others

There wont be white walkers in the prequal. It will be before the Night King was created. I assume he will be created at the end of that series.

Woop de freak’n do

 

[miketx]

Game of Thrones.....
A Song of Ice and Fire.....

It's all just trash now. Go read Harry Potter or something, you cocksucking idiots

...or just watch the final episode and bitch about it.

That's the plan.

I was hoping for a better ending to this saga, but oh well.

When you turn on the TV you get what Hollywood gives you. Most of the time it sucks.

I suspect that if any of us had the opportunity to talk to either Dumb or Dumber about Season 8 they would tell us they gave us a spectacular ending. After all visually it has been great and we all know it took over a year to make and cost a ton of money.

However, neither one of them would have a clue as to why we were disappointed. After all they gave us the Hollywood formula. What could possibly go wrong?

Once they went off of Martin's script and started to make up their own story it was destined to suck.

Martin is an asshole and a Moon Bat slob but he was a genius creating the world and a rich story. Dumb and Dumber just typical Hollywood scrip writers. Their next project will probably be Mod Squad II or something.

That's nice.

I had expectations and I've been disappointed.

It is NOT the end of the world, nor even the end of the day.

I watch and read with the expectation of being entertained by a story, complete with all the elements that go into a story. If the story sucks, I put it down and stop reading, or change the channel. If the story is great, I read or watch all of it, then I process the story internally and assess if I am satisfied with the outcome.

If I am, I recommend it to people who ask or who are interested in recommendations on movies or books.

If I am not, I bitch about it as every person on the planet does.

So far, A Song of Fire and Ice has been a good series of stories and I look forward to finishing it. Game of Thrones, while having its problems, was entertaining and worthy of the time taken out of a busy day to watch and be entertained.

Until this season.

It seems that the vast majority of the people who were into GoT are also very disappointed in the ending. They, like Me, are expressing dissatisfaction with the way this was wrapped up.

Seems like we are holding to tradition, as we should. The reasons for its bad ending are just speculation but based upon some reasonable issues that have plagued this season.

The consequences to HBO may or may not be significant, but one thing is certain. They should relearn the concept that people get invested in storylines and they'd do well to not cut corners when bringing them to an end.

I think the consequences to HBO are immense

They are looking at the loss of their biggest ratings draw and are proposing three or four sequels

If the loyal fans feel betrayed or lost interest in the storylines, they will not be back

I sat through eight seasons for this?

Yes you did, and that is why you lose. HBO hooked you and made you watch for 8 years and they fed you glorified sex, gay and straight, feeding all perversions, rape, beautiful naked women and good looking naked men to some, child abuse incest murder, maiming and God knows what all. You sat and sucked it all in and called for more. They won. And now you want to complain you didn't get your moneys worth. O my God!

 

[rightwinger]

...or just watch the final episode and bitch about it.

That's the plan.

I was hoping for a better ending to this saga, but oh well.

When you turn on the TV you get what Hollywood gives you. Most of the time it sucks.

I suspect that if any of us had the opportunity to talk to either Dumb or Dumber about Season 8 they would tell us they gave us a spectacular ending. After all visually it has been great and we all know it took over a year to make and cost a ton of money.

However, neither one of them would have a clue as to why we were disappointed. After all they gave us the Hollywood formula. What could possibly go wrong?

Once they went off of Martin's script and started to make up their own story it was destined to suck.

Martin is an asshole and a Moon Bat slob but he was a genius creating the world and a rich story. Dumb and Dumber just typical Hollywood scrip writers. Their next project will probably be Mod Squad II or something.

That's nice.

I had expectations and I've been disappointed.

It is NOT the end of the world, nor even the end of the day.

I watch and read with the expectation of being entertained by a story, complete with all the elements that go into a story. If the story sucks, I put it down and stop reading, or change the channel. If the story is great, I read or watch all of it, then I process the story internally and assess if I am satisfied with the outcome.

If I am, I recommend it to people who ask or who are interested in recommendations on movies or books.

If I am not, I bitch about it as every person on the planet does.

So far, A Song of Fire and Ice has been a good series of stories and I look forward to finishing it. Game of Thrones, while having its problems, was entertaining and worthy of the time taken out of a busy day to watch and be entertained.

Until this season.

It seems that the vast majority of the people who were into GoT are also very disappointed in the ending. They, like Me, are expressing dissatisfaction with the way this was wrapped up.

Seems like we are holding to tradition, as we should. The reasons for its bad ending are just speculation but based upon some reasonable issues that have plagued this season.

The consequences to HBO may or may not be significant, but one thing is certain. They should relearn the concept that people get invested in storylines and they'd do well to not cut corners when bringing them to an end.

I think the consequences to HBO are immense

They are looking at the loss of their biggest ratings draw and are proposing three or four sequels

If the loyal fans feel betrayed or lost interest in the storylines, they will not be back

I sat through eight seasons for this?

Yes you did, and that is why you lose. HBO hooked you and made you watch for 8 years and they fed you glorified sex, gay and straight, feeding all perversions, rape, beautiful naked women and good looking naked men to some, child abuse incest murder, maiming and God knows what all. You sat and sucked it all in and called for more. They won. And now you want to complain you didn't get your moneys worth. O my God!

Fool me once.....

 

[Flash]

Did someone actually use the words, "cutting corners" in describing this?

Un.

Fucking.

Believable.

They spent more on each of these episodes than is spent on most full-length feature films.

As for subscriptions, remember that series like this draw subscriptions IN ADVANCE, with people either seeing the earlier seasons, or hearing by word of mouth how enjoyable it was. They sign up for HBO specifically to see Game of Thrones. A little disappointment with plot lines won't mean anything in terms of subscriber revenue.

As I said above, the reason why they are truncating the resolution of all story lines is because they don't have three more seasons to get it done.

Good lord. Yes, because spending money foolishly means they did not cut corners.


Un-fucking-believable.

Cinematically season eight is a masterpiece.

Just wish they had spent some of that budget on competent script writers.

 

[Flash]

Dany is a Moon Bat Democrat. Only thing missing is a pink pussy hat.

 

[night_son]

Did someone actually use the words, "cutting corners" in describing this?

Un.

Fucking.

Believable.

They spent more on each of these episodes than is spent on most full-length feature films.

As for subscriptions, remember that series like this draw subscriptions IN ADVANCE, with people either seeing the earlier seasons, or hearing by word of mouth how enjoyable it was. They sign up for HBO specifically to see Game of Thrones. A little disappointment with plot lines won't mean anything in terms of subscriber revenue.

As I said above, the reason why they are truncating the resolution of all story lines is because they don't have three more seasons to get it done.

Good lord. Yes, because spending money foolishly means they did not cut corners.


Un-fucking-believable.

Cinematically season eight is a masterpiece.

Just wish they had spent some of that budget on competent script writers.

I agree, however, this (poor endings) is symptomatic of much of modern day fiction be it in novel, movie, series or whatever form. Writers at large still seem capable of spinning a decent early to mid-narrative but either write themselves into inescapable plot holes, get lazy/rushed or devise the worst endings imaginable. Of course, that's all subjective. Some might consider Season 8 the masterpiece of the series. Perhaps the GoT writers are simply trolling us . . . all of them stuck on April 1st north of the wall.

 

[Darkwind]

Did someone actually use the words, "cutting corners" in describing this?

Un.

Fucking.

Believable.

They spent more on each of these episodes than is spent on most full-length feature films.

As for subscriptions, remember that series like this draw subscriptions IN ADVANCE, with people either seeing the earlier seasons, or hearing by word of mouth how enjoyable it was. They sign up for HBO specifically to see Game of Thrones. A little disappointment with plot lines won't mean anything in terms of subscriber revenue.

As I said above, the reason why they are truncating the resolution of all story lines is because they don't have three more seasons to get it done.

Good lord. Yes, because spending money foolishly means they did not cut corners.


Un-fucking-believable.

Cinematically season eight is a masterpiece.

Just wish they had spent some of that budget on competent script writers.

And that is what I mean by foolish spending. The majority of the budget goes to the fancy CGI, and they cut corners on the writing. They could have done half the CGI and made it a better season with better writing.

But hey, we determine how good a product is by how much we spend on it, right?

BTW, the Series "Fringe", whether you liked it or not, had the last season cut in half right after the 4th season. They still managed to come in on budget and WITH no loss of quality in storytelling.

It can be done.

 

[miketx]

That's the plan.

I was hoping for a better ending to this saga, but oh well.

When you turn on the TV you get what Hollywood gives you. Most of the time it sucks.

I suspect that if any of us had the opportunity to talk to either Dumb or Dumber about Season 8 they would tell us they gave us a spectacular ending. After all visually it has been great and we all know it took over a year to make and cost a ton of money.

However, neither one of them would have a clue as to why we were disappointed. After all they gave us the Hollywood formula. What could possibly go wrong?

Once they went off of Martin's script and started to make up their own story it was destined to suck.

Martin is an asshole and a Moon Bat slob but he was a genius creating the world and a rich story. Dumb and Dumber just typical Hollywood scrip writers. Their next project will probably be Mod Squad II or something.

That's nice.

I had expectations and I've been disappointed.

It is NOT the end of the world, nor even the end of the day.

I watch and read with the expectation of being entertained by a story, complete with all the elements that go into a story. If the story sucks, I put it down and stop reading, or change the channel. If the story is great, I read or watch all of it, then I process the story internally and assess if I am satisfied with the outcome.

If I am, I recommend it to people who ask or who are interested in recommendations on movies or books.

If I am not, I bitch about it as every person on the planet does.

So far, A Song of Fire and Ice has been a good series of stories and I look forward to finishing it. Game of Thrones, while having its problems, was entertaining and worthy of the time taken out of a busy day to watch and be entertained.

Until this season.

It seems that the vast majority of the people who were into GoT are also very disappointed in the ending. They, like Me, are expressing dissatisfaction with the way this was wrapped up.

Seems like we are holding to tradition, as we should. The reasons for its bad ending are just speculation but based upon some reasonable issues that have plagued this season.

The consequences to HBO may or may not be significant, but one thing is certain. They should relearn the concept that people get invested in storylines and they'd do well to not cut corners when bringing them to an end.

I think the consequences to HBO are immense

They are looking at the loss of their biggest ratings draw and are proposing three or four sequels

If the loyal fans feel betrayed or lost interest in the storylines, they will not be back

I sat through eight seasons for this?

Yes you did, and that is why you lose. HBO hooked you and made you watch for 8 years and they fed you glorified sex, gay and straight, feeding all perversions, rape, beautiful naked women and good looking naked men to some, child abuse incest murder, maiming and God knows what all. You sat and sucked it all in and called for more. They won. And now you want to complain you didn't get your moneys worth. O my God!

Fool me once.....

No, this probably your 4th or 5th rodeo, not to mention being played by the media whores daily.

 

[Flash]

Did someone actually use the words, "cutting corners" in describing this?

Un.

Fucking.

Believable.

They spent more on each of these episodes than is spent on most full-length feature films.

As for subscriptions, remember that series like this draw subscriptions IN ADVANCE, with people either seeing the earlier seasons, or hearing by word of mouth how enjoyable it was. They sign up for HBO specifically to see Game of Thrones. A little disappointment with plot lines won't mean anything in terms of subscriber revenue.

As I said above, the reason why they are truncating the resolution of all story lines is because they don't have three more seasons to get it done.

Good lord. Yes, because spending money foolishly means they did not cut corners.


Un-fucking-believable.

Cinematically season eight is a masterpiece.

Just wish they had spent some of that budget on competent script writers.

I agree, however, this (poor endings) is symptomatic of much of modern day fiction be it in novel, movie, series or whatever form. Writers at large still seem capable of spinning a decent early to mid-narrative but either write themselves into inescapable plot holes, get lazy/rushed or devise the worst endings imaginable. Of course, that's all subjective. Some might consider Season 8 the masterpiece of the series. Perhaps the GoT writers are simply trolling us . . . all of them stuck on April 1st north of the wall.

There was only one real GoT writer and that was GRRM. By the end of the 6th season his material ran out because he hadn't finished the books. Dumb and Dumber took it from there and that is why we have seen such a deterioration in the quality of the scripts. They employed the same old tired Hollywood formulas and that is why we are having so much fail in the story line. Just look how they fucked up the story arc of Jamie as an example. They even sent Ghost to the Wildling dog kennel because they didn't want to mess around with him. Look how they hurried up the story of Varys and even screwed up Bronn.

 

[Flash]

Any chance Sugartits is still alive in the dungeon?

 

[bodecea]

Dany is a Moon Bat Democrat. Only thing missing is a pink pussy hat.

Oh look....the INCEL take on GoT.

 

[Godboy]

I think the consequences to HBO are immense

They are looking at the loss of their biggest ratings draw and are proposing three or four sequels

If the loyal fans feel betrayed or lost interest in the storylines, they will not be back

I sat through eight seasons for this?

I have no interest in the prequels. The night king ended up being trash and I can’t possibly care about him and pretend he’s some big baddie.

Yet youll be here complaining about every episode as they come out. Youre the guy who complains about a show he never misses and episode of.

After eight seasons, I will watch the final episode. I have that much invested

But HBO will have a hard time convincing me that I should get wrapped up in any of the prequels

I really don’t fear the White Walkers and don’t care about Family Lannister, Stark, Taegarean or any of the others

There wont be white walkers in the prequal. It will be before the Night King was created. I assume he will be created at the end of that series.

Woop de freak’n do

It will be an entirely different world. Those weird race people will be around, magic will be more prevelent and more dragons. Im stoked for it.

 

[rightwinger]

Did someone actually use the words, "cutting corners" in describing this?

Un.

Fucking.

Believable.

They spent more on each of these episodes than is spent on most full-length feature films.

As for subscriptions, remember that series like this draw subscriptions IN ADVANCE, with people either seeing the earlier seasons, or hearing by word of mouth how enjoyable it was. They sign up for HBO specifically to see Game of Thrones. A little disappointment with plot lines won't mean anything in terms of subscriber revenue.

As I said above, the reason why they are truncating the resolution of all story lines is because they don't have three more seasons to get it done.

Good lord. Yes, because spending money foolishly means they did not cut corners.


Un-fucking-believable.

Cinematically season eight is a masterpiece.

Just wish they had spent some of that budget on competent script writers.

And that is what I mean by foolish spending. The majority of the budget goes to the fancy CGI, and they cut corners on the writing. They could have done half the CGI and made it a better season with better writing.

But hey, we determine how good a product is by how much we spend on it, right?

BTW, the Series "Fringe", whether you liked it or not, had the last season cut in half right after the 4th season. They still managed to come in on budget and WITH no loss of quality in storytelling.

It can be done.

They had two years to get it right
They blew it

Maybe they should have had a couple test audiences to see their reaction

 

[rightwinger]

I have no interest in the prequels. The night king ended up being trash and I can’t possibly care about him and pretend he’s some big baddie.

Yet youll be here complaining about every episode as they come out. Youre the guy who complains about a show he never misses and episode of.

After eight seasons, I will watch the final episode. I have that much invested

But HBO will have a hard time convincing me that I should get wrapped up in any of the prequels

I really don’t fear the White Walkers and don’t care about Family Lannister, Stark, Taegarean or any of the others

There wont be white walkers in the prequal. It will be before the Night King was created. I assume he will be created at the end of that series.

Woop de freak’n do

It will be an entirely different world. Those weird race people will be around, magic will be more prevelent and more dragons. Im stoked for it.

Fool me once....