Blame of Thrones Season 8 - the final season. IT'S ALL OVER

more heat than light wrote:Did anyone ever confirm the reason for reducing the number of episodes per season? I would normally assume that it'd be a cost issue, but surely GoT makes plenty of dollar?

I'd always assumed it.was due to the massive cost of each episode as the series have gone on.

Ad7 wrote:
more heat than light wrote:Did anyone ever confirm the reason for reducing the number of episodes per season? I would normally assume that it'd be a cost issue, but surely GoT makes plenty of dollar?

I'd always assumed it.was due to the massive cost of each episode as the series have gone on.

Apparently not, HBO offered them more money and more episodes but the showrunners turned it down.

Ad7 wrote:
more heat than light wrote:Did anyone ever confirm the reason for reducing the number of episodes per season? I would normally assume that it'd be a cost issue, but surely GoT makes plenty of dollar?

I'd always assumed it.was due to the massive cost of each episode as the series have gone on.

Except HBO would have been happy to make more:

"HBO would have been happy for the show to keep going, to have more episodes in the final season," Benioff said. "We always believed it was about 73 hours, and it will be roughly that. As much as they wanted more, they understood that this is where the story ends."

"To their credit, they [HBO] put their money where their mouths are — literally stuffed their mouth full of million-dollar bills which don’t exist anymore," he joked. "They said, 'We’ll give you the resources to make this what it needs to be, and if what it needs to be is a summer tentpole-size spectacle in places, then that’s what it will be.'”

Idiots.

I don’t know why they (HBO) don’t just let them go?

After all, many tv shows have changed their show runners. The Walking Dead did that often.

I mean I can't really fault the direction of the story, it's just the pacing that feels off. This season should have been mostly about the white walkers to do that plot thread justice, and then have the final season about the North slowly progressing down to Kings Landing.

Otherwise, things are panning out much as I'm expecting, but a lot of people will be butt hurt if it doesn't end with a Stark on the throne. But personally I don't want a happy ending.

captain red dog wrote:I mean I can't really fault the direction of the story, it's just the pacing that feels off. This season should have been mostly about the white walkers to do that plot thread justice, and then have the final season about the North slowly progressing down to Kings Landing.

Otherwise, things are panning out much as I'm expecting, but a lot of people will be butt hurt if it doesn't end with a Stark on the throne. But personally I don't want a happy ending.

Yeah I think if they had spread this season over two seasons then people would have much less problem with it. All of the main plot points have been fine, it’s just the rushed nature of this season.

I now think Taf will be right and Gendry will end up on the throne.

Surely the Iron Thrones has been destroyed? The Red Keep was obliterated. I reckon they'll forge a new throne, but instead of being made from swords it'll be made from something else to symbolise a new era of peace and unity. Perhaps they could make it out of old John Lennon cassette tapes?

Preezy wrote:Surely the Iron Thrones has been destroyed? The Red Keep was obliterated. I reckon they'll forge a new throne, but instead of being made from swords it'll be made from something else to symbolise a new era of peace and unity

Preezy wrote:Surely the Iron Thrones has been destroyed? The Red Keep was obliterated. I reckon they'll forge a new throne, but instead of being made from swords it'll be made from something else to symbolise a new era of peace and unity. Perhaps they could make it out of old John Lennon cassette tapes?

~~Jet fuel can't melt steel beams.~~ Dragon fire can't melt iron thrones.

captain red dog wrote:I mean I can't really fault the direction of the story, it's just the pacing that feels off. This season should have been mostly about the white walkers to do that plot thread justice, and then have the final season about the North slowly progressing down to Kings Landing.

Otherwise, things are panning out much as I'm expecting, but a lot of people will be butt hurt if it doesn't end with a Stark on the throne. But personally I don't want a happy ending.

Given that they're probably following the broad story strokes of GRR Martin, basically the bit he's responsible for is good and what they're responsible for is bad then.

I think it's a bit rich of GRRM to have a problem with the writing. He should have got off his arse and finished the books.

GOT fans last week - THIS IS strawberry floating TERRIBLE THE WRITING IS AWFUL THE STORY IS TERRIBLE

*GRR Tolkien may have told them this is the way the story was going*

GOT fans this week - THERES NOTHING WRONG WITH THE STORY ITS THE PACING strawberry floating STAR WARS

*when they remember this pacing was set 2 years ago*

GOT fans next week - strawberry floating TIME

Winckle wrote:I think it's a bit rich of GRRM to have a problem with the writing. He should have got off his arse and finished the books.

It really does feel like every one of the creators behind this thing just can't be bothered any more.

Gemini73 wrote:I only ~~just~~ noticed the title change

Fixed that for you.

That's seventeen pages of discussion that I said not to have.

And look, everyone's falling out again. :roll:

Wtf I just read a breakdown of the episode and they talk about the golden company?! I didn’t even notice them in that episode unless it’s the ones that surrendered and got massacred? I thought they were Lannister’s though. didn’t we spend at least an entire season, possibly two, where they recruited that golden army? :fp:

They were the army standing outside the city gates:

The soldiers who surrendered were wearing Lannister armour.

Garth wrote:They were the army standing outside the city gates:

Yeah, the tough-as-nail super soldiers for hire...

...that don't wear any armour below the waist. :/

BID0 wrote:Wtf I just read a breakdown of the episode and they talk about the golden company?! I didn’t even notice them in that episode unless it’s the ones that surrendered and got massacred? I thought they were Lannister’s though. didn’t we spend at least an entire season, possibly two, where they recruited that golden army?

They were the absolute geeks the that got ruined when the dragon burst through the gates behind then they got rushed by Grey Worm and the rest of the army.

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