[TV] HBO Game of Thrones - Page 1809

On May 20 2019 21:19 Plansix wrote:

Yeah, even in big budget movies. Brave heart has a famous moment where a Scottish warrior trips and you can totally see his boxers under his kilt. Other period pieces have moments where you can see the sneakers the women are wearing under the very long dresses.

On May 20 2019 22:08 BlackCompany wrote:


Independence of the north is the most idiotic thing though. The leaders of all these kkngdoms that want independence for so long (like dorne and iron islands) are just okay with Sansa casually dropping a "yeah my brother is king but we are gonna be independent though" and noone even tries to argue that..

On May 20 2019 19:57 Bacillus wrote:
The thing I wonder and worry is what kind of conclusions people responsible for financially greenlighting these shows draw from the backlash of s8.

Apparently back when the Revenant was being filmed and it blew the budget and got delayed and all that, there was serious worry how it'll affect other upcoming film projects. Luckily it turned out great in the end and did well in the box office. Had it been a catastrophic failure, it would have likely caused the financers to play a lot safer and nobody would have got to do the ambitious stuff any time soon.

I'm not sure how that'll translate to a series that has had its success on previous years though, but I fear somehow it may lead to much more middle of the road productions in the near future.

On May 20 2019 22:23 Rasalased wrote:


I have no idea what the people in charge in Hollywood are thinking. I have heard people say that doing this SF and fantasy genre is really hurting Hollywood because it is so expensive. But that is their own fucking problem, because their business model is basically to one-up the last movie in terms of special effects and production value. That is the way they keep things going. These movies aren't competing with each other on plot or dialogue. And Star Trek and Game of Thrones have the same problem.


Take Star Trek Discovery. It took 8 million per episode to shoot. And STD looked absolutely beautiful. The sets and the attention to detail was insane. Also didn't hear about coffee cups of water bottles. But the story was absolutely terrible. Much much worse on so many levels that GoT. Why?

It is fucking cheap to hire some good writers. Put people in a room, have them talk about stuff. And cut it into an episode. Original Star Trek was produced on almost no budget. It was a cheap ass show. Season 1 GoT skipped battles because they didn't have the money for it. Yes Game of Thrones turned into a show were every battle had to be bigger and more epic than the last one, to keep the hype train going.

Marvel superhero movies are doing the same thing.


In my job I do a lot of writing. We write scientific articles and they have to be really good. We keep going over and over them to improve, but it is only 2% of our actual job. And then when we publish, often we think "No one is ever going to read this shit." and we are happy we get a couple of citations. And when we make a mistake, our mistake gets ripped to shreds.

Compare this with the script for the king voting scene in GoT. These people had 8 years to come up with it. They get paid 0.5-1 million per episode. Whatever they put down on people, millions are going to watch. There must be like a 10,000,000 factor of how much time the creators spend into thinking about their story. And how much effort their fans put in thinking about the story. I get that it is hard to please your entire audience. But this isn't about that.

Imagine they did Game of Thrones without any book material? The same concept and ambition, but Hollywood just comes up with it all on their own. Well, that is what might be happening now.

So why doesn't Hollywood produce extremely well-written tv series/movies that are cheap to produce? I fucking don't know. But I guess they did do that with shows like Friends and The Big Bang Theory.

This is something that also baffles me. Why were D&D even put in charge of the writing in the first place? With GoTs massive budget surely they couldve hired a couple of decent script writers to make a decent story. Is this just some hollywood politics kind of thing?

On May 20 2019 23:01 KwarK wrote:
Dany + Drogon fly away without telling anyone where they went the way they always do.

Jon: I told her I wanted to break up and she took it badly and burned a bunch of stuff then said "I need to go think about some stuff" and flew away. She said I was in charge while she was gone.

*fin*

On May 20 2019 23:03 Logo wrote:
What's the point of it all though? Is there really a theme or underlying message here? Coming into episode 6 you'd argue there's an underlying theme of power corrupts and no one is truly good or bad. But that kind of falls apart when you appoint a god-king who's only ever done the right thing.

After reaching Meereen, Yara and Theon forge an alliance with Daenerys and her advisor Tyrion Lannister. Yara offers to provide a hundred ships if Dany helps them to defeat Euron and recognizes the independence of the Iron Islands. Dany accepts their offer but demands that the Ironborn cease raiding and terrorizing the mainland. Yara reluctantly accepts Dany's terms

On May 20 2019 22:25 solidbebe wrote:

This is something that also baffles me. Why were D&D even put in charge of the writing in the first place? With GoTs massive budget surely they couldve hired a couple of decent script writers to make a decent story. Is this just some hollywood politics kind of thing?

On May 20 2019 23:41 Logo wrote:
Also the show runners forgot the Iron Islands are an independent kingdom

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