[TV] HBO Game of Thrones - Page 1611

On July 18 2017 23:44 Talaris wrote:


While I agree on the "go on at all costs-snydrome", I rather think it's that way due to GRRM's endless meandering and adding more and more exposition all the time, even in books 5+ instead of finally trying to wrap the story up.

I would love to see more of Arya's training and her future way, I would love to see Dany learn how to reign en detail etc, but so far, GRRMs writing led to a situation where ASOIAF reads like it's rather 10 individual books set in fantasy world that coincendally overlap from time to time than 1 series that's ending in 7 books.

He might have been better of to write a trilogy with 1/5th the characters, then write another trilogy, then just another another, do it the e.g. Shannara way... I mean everything up to the war of 5 kings setting built up tension naturally, with the abrupt deaths and new beginnings of plotlines feeling like it the books were originally meant to be a trilogy, but then somehow plans changed and ti should be stretched to 7 books/seasons. I mean, Dorne getting mentioned first in Season 3; the show would feel the same when there would be no sandsnakes... sounds like filler material / just another RPG sourcebook material


TLDR;
Sadly the TV show does not have the luxury of being able to go on endlessly like GRRM, but needs to wrap up NOW
Would love to get more than those final 8+6 episodes to ensure the rest of the series get the same writing treatment it got in season 1-3,too ...

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On July 19 2017 14:12 MassHysteria wrote:
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On July 18 2017 07:20 Hider wrote:


How was it badass? 2 seconds into the scene you knew exactly what would happen. If a scene can be predicted that easily it's generally not interesting.

It definitely has become less of a drama-show and more of a "let's find an easy and unrealistic way so the story can move forward and/or the good guys can win" show. That's not just related to Arya but every single character-arch has started to suffer from that ever since the writers began to write on their own (rather than copying GRRM).

There hasn't been a single story-arch where I was intrigued or surprised by the tactics, details, motives or outcome of the show since S4. Or whenever I am "surprised" it's usually because I expected a higher quality writing (such as the Arya storyline in S6 or Dorne in S6E1) and instead just couldn't believe that all of the time spent on the characters were essentially a waste of time.

On July 20 2017 01:22 Cricketer12 wrote:

Really? You didn't see the wildfire coming?

On July 19 2017 16:07 Emnjay808 wrote:

The Hound and Tormund are the only characters I give a fuck about at this point of the season since most of it is just fluff for now.

On July 20 2017 02:19 Plansix wrote:
I think a lot of people are still looking for those shocking moments from the early parts of the series, which were amazing. But at some point the world has to stabilize and this all needs to end. I am still surprised from time to time by the show, but we have reached the point in the series were 10000 monkey on 100000 computers have been speculating about since 1996. We are also past the point in the series when the books were at their worst and most self indulgent. I am happy the creators are putting the gas on this story and skipping the logistics.

On July 20 2017 02:44 Piledriver wrote:



FWIW I'm sure there are a few twists and turns still pending. One of Daenerys and Jon is going to die a sudden and unforeseen death, possibly betrayed by someone close. Both Dany and Jon, have gained far too many allies in far too short period of a time, and I wouldn't be entirely surprised if one of them betrays him/her in a crucial moment.