this is extra funny cause in the last stranger things trailer people were saying people aren't interested in stranger things anymore.Yup! It's STILL a popular show. 5th most watched content at HBO Max in Finland right now and it's a show you could have watched for free here from the telly and it was on HBO Nordic prior. It was among the most popular HBO originals on HBO Max (US) on it's first year too.
Edit: Let's add social media discussion to the mix, from last year. https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/insights/2020/spending-2020-together-on-twitter
But yeah sure, "nobody talks about the show anymore".
What notes, there are no notes. GRRM doesn't plan ahead. He discovers his plots and characters as he writes them. The biggest fallacy in this fandom is that GRRM has some highly detailed outline of the story. I bet he has no clue himself.
There are a few storylines that just got tossed to the side that setup where a lot to characters will end. So for example, Brienne's big thing is her becoming a knight and what that means when you're in a situation where you can't act honorably in some way because honoring one promise means dishonoring yourself in another way. That kinda just got dropped in the show so she basically had her wheels spin while having a few jokes with the beared guy from beyond the wall and a cool fight here or there. D&D tossed a lot of interesting character stuff toward the final few seasons.
To be fair I made some suggestion that I think would fit in but it's still more interesting than Jon simply killing the night king. I would find that anti climactic. I think they needed a solution that was both suprising and yet obvious at the same time. That in opinion is good storytelling. Like in Lord of The Rings, if Frodo just threw the ring in the fire, it's expected but it be boring, so in Return of the King they have another twist where Frodo gives in to the ring's power and surrenders its location to Sauron. Gollum takes the ring and during the struggle, Frodo pushes both Gollum and the ring into the fires. In my view you need some dramactic twist to the expected, to keep people on edge, rather than Jon simply killing the night king with Longclaw.
Insanely reductive summary. Of course you can make it sound like the show used all the book material when you barely mention any of the book material that was excised from the show.
I'd give it a watch, not something I've ever wanted though. I don't need the same story adapted again when it was just done, even if in bit different format. I'm more interested in the spin-off shows, sequels, prequels and what have you.
I've been beating that drum ever since Thrones ended.
I'm sorry to inform you the existence of a lot of that superfluous shit is part of the reason we haven't had a book in 10 years.
Jeyne Poole is passed off as Arya and betrothed to Ramsey she is raped, instead of it being Sansa. Or something like that. While Sansa is still in the Veil under Littlefingers protection.
News to me. Do you know George personally or are you just making stuff up?
Come on you know that is bullshit. People hated that episode immediately. I mean yes, some people did only start hating it like 4 weeks later after the whole thing turned out to be a complete shitshow, but it was certainly a far cry from how fans reacted to the show just a few years prior. I fucking hate basically anything they've done with the last season and even I found myself defending it in the week afterwards.
idunno about nice package but there is a 4k set of GOT available.
It's a bit on the high side for price, but the picture and sound quality is well worth it! A lot of the dark scene complaints are long gone with the set.
Sure if by mental block you mean, trying to get paid to do other shit. Like 3 or 4 different song of ice and fire TV show spin offs. Several video games, a completely different song of ice and fire book about the targayeons. And some others I'm forgetting.
This is the guy that keeps erasing and writing over his own work because he doesn't plan ahead. What's there to make up? We know, for a fact, that there was supposed to be a big timeskip from book 3 to book 4, and that he wrote a good chunk of it, and then changed his mind and had to start writing AFFC all over from scratch. We know, because he told us himself, that book 5 took a long time to come out because he didn't know how to get Dany out of Meereen. And he keeps overstuffing the books with new characters and plotlines, when they're already pretty crowded and overly convoluted.
Depends what you mean by "people" and if internet discussion counts. I vividly remember the episode being divisive in the era thread as it aired, so much that some posters claimed they were leaving the thread because it was being drowned out by people that didn't like it.
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Yeah, some people probably did like it. But a sizeable portion of the fanbase immediately didn't like it and even more turned on it within a few weeks. As I've said a far cry from the height of the shows success.
I don't why we're talking about either side having to be excused. They all fucked up.
Depends what you mean by "people" and if internet discussion counts. I vividly remember the episode being divisive in the era thread as it aired, so much that some posters claimed they were leaving the thread because it was being drowned out by people that didn't like it.
Game of Thrones S8, Apr 14-May 19 @9PM EDT |OT| Aunt-Man and the Frost
I know right ? Like you talk up this supernatural threat and it's basically nothing! Oh well back to petty squabbles about land! The whole concept was that we need to rise above the petty squabbles Oh boy! More scenes of Cersei drinking and smirking and saying mean things!
