The Game of Thrones Thread (With Spoilers)

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  1. purr1n

    purr1n Desire for betterer is endless.

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    You just spent billions acquiring Warner/HBO. Do you really want to spend tens of millions more on top of for two more episodes when it's so easy to cheat dumb viewing customers?
     
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    I could be wrong, but I thought it was more D&D's decision to make the shortened last two seasons rather than HBO. It was my understanding that HBO actually wanted to do more episodes (and possibly more seasons).

    Here's a excerpt from a 2015 article:

    The 13-episode plan isn’t set in stone—Benioff and Weiss are still outlining the rest of the series—but it’s what the showrunners are aiming for. Lombardo said they were “still in conversations.”

    Why make the final couple of seasons shorter? According to Variety, the showrunners feel that they can no longer live up to the standard they’ve set for themselves, and for the fans, given that the production grows in complexity every year. “It’s crossing out of a television schedule into more of a mid-range movie schedule,” Weiss said. It seems it’s getting harder to produce 10 episodes in the show’s usual 12 or 14 month filming time-frame. Shortening the final two years would allow them to focus more time on each episode.

    That last sentence is particularly hilarious considering the end results...
     
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    The A10 came to my mind because my son sent me a bunch of text messages with links to A10 videos on YouTube. I proposed that he search up an image of the DU or Tungsten rounds. We then moved on to attack helicopter FLIR footage where they ran out of rounds and started to use the Hellfire missiles on individual ISIS combatants. "Are those ISIS?" "Yup."

    We then imagined what might have been left of the bodies, thinking of the rabbit parts "with the spine sticking out" and "complete set of small and large intestines with shit still in there" left by our cats.

    I remarked to my wife how men seemed to predeposed to war and murder by cool war-machines. GoT sure obliges.
     
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    I mean, would have kept me watching hbo for a bit longer (though I just watch off my friends parents account, so not like I pay)
     
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    This kind of says it all...

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    To be fair, there has been at least one major development since back in season 1 when we learned that Jon isn't fireproof : he was resurrected by the red god. This R'hllor dude is 100% all about the fire. It could feel a little cheap but it wouldn't come out of completely nowhere.

    It looked like some time had passed between the first letter scene & the scene where he burns it, so I'm guessing he was sending a bunch of letters out to all the major lords?
     
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    Terrible episode, terrible season.
     
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    Show needs two different writers

    Her crazy side was more developed in the books, very rushed this season.
     
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    They startle the shit out of me sometimes. I frequently cycle through Ft Indiantown Gap, which is one of only a couple places east of the Mississippi where A10s are allowed to practice. It's right against a small mountain ridge, and the way they sometimes approach the ranges means you don't hear them coming. Then out of nowhere, that freaking chain gun.
     
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    Even a 5 second pan over during the burning of Varys to get a shot of Dany grinning like an idiot would have established her going cray cray a bit more. Close up reflection of his burning corpse in her eyes, cut to next scene. Boom, done.
     
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    Few boats, few scorpions, dead dragon. Lots of boats and lots of scorpions, useless. The first depiction makes no sense considering how they caught the Dany by surprise but it establishes it as a weapon to mess up dragons. And then to have do diddly squat the next following episode? How much magical plot armor does it have now. How dumb.

    Every character became super one dimensional this season. Cersei had a disappointing death with all the horrible stuff she pulls. Arya dd nothing and still got people killed. The Mountain doesn't die with a knife to the face. Qyburn's death was hilarious. Jaime character arc was a waste. Dany going crazy over some bells. Jon killed some dudes and didn't do much else. Euron was an asspull villain that would solve all of Cersei's problems.

    God, the more that I think about this episode and season, the more awful the writing appears.
     
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    It's like the dragons are just too stupid to bother dodging attacks unless a rider steers them?
     
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    This.

    It's too late now. I also thought it was a dumb HBO executive decision to shorten the development so much. But I've heard yesterday that it was indeed D&D's decision. Those two are in my Arya list.
     
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    Indeed I feel the A10 is the closest one may get to the Drogon, Rhaegal, and Viserion experience. A10's don't go down with "Scorpions" or ice toothpicks.

    f**k you D&D!
     
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    I can't wait for their dumpster fire Star Wars Trilogy!
     
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    Season 8 EP5 patch notes:

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    I still blame AT&T. They were happy to hear "less episodes". Real HBO execs would have said "WTF?"
     
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    We need a real life Arya to sneak in and grab GRRM and lock him in a dungeon until he finishes writing the flippin' ASOIAF books!

    But seriously, given what all is going on at HBO with S8, the interest in a "real" ending to GOT is going to be stronger than ever.
     

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