Only ever watched 2 and a bit episodes, not really my thing. All I want to know though is, does the midget get killed?
Political Correctness gone mad. There’s no chance an autistic lad in a wheelchair & a little person would ever win.
Kings Landing and The Wall got rebuilt quickly. I think the whole thing has been a pile of **** personally. I think Mr Martin has sabotaged it intentionally so that people buy the books to find out what really happens.
As the man gave the show runners the ending, and the main plot points, how has he sabotaged it? I received the books after the second season. I was lent the box sets released that far, binge watched them, and got hooked. Would I have read the books without seeing the show? Highly unlikely. And there must be many like me. Yes, I will buy the next book, not to expect any great difference to the ending, but to travel a different road to get there.
The whole thing has just gone full Disney for the final series. The books will be darker, more tense, more unpredictable, I doubt things will even happen the same way. The night king should be able to get past the first hurdle. The show runners should die, as they all have at various stages throughout the whole thing. Who expected Robb Stark, the key figure at that time, to walk into that place and come out dead? Nobody. I guess you could argue nobody would have predicted the events of the final series, given it was so predictable nobody would have considered GoT would have done that. More like one of those ****ty cheese DC marvel comic films than the devilishly clever and brutal programme we’ve known in the 7 series prior.
Yes, fair point. There was supposed to be a third left field wtf moment. Hodor and Shireen being the first two, the show having passed the books. I can't say anything this season has had that effect. Perhaps it needed another season, but its Ok for us,we watch one night a week for the run. For all involved in the making of it its months of planning scripting filming, setting aside other projects. So we wait for the book, as I've said before, don't hold your breath on that one.
The WTF moment was about to be everyone dying at winterfel. I was sitting there thinking even game of thrones won’t go that far. Then Arya jumps out of a tree right as the bomb clicks onto 00:00:01. She might as well have been wearing a mask, a cape and a body suit with a big A on the front. And literally everyone survived!
Season four was still the peak, even if they hadn't rushed it, they were never going to reach that quality again.
There was month's of scripting? Are you sure? As to the book, I have a theory, being as they are obviously both fans of the book series, maybe they made such an aberration of it to force him to finish it properly.
Totally agree. I always preferred WoT to GoT. It was becoming long and drawn out with individual threads going nowhere fast. Sanderson comes in to finish the "last" book and three books later, its all finished and everyone was happy. They are talking, yet again of adapting WoT. It was always said that it couldn't be adapted, or it would be too expensive, but GoT kinda broke the mould for what was doable. Fingers crossed. GoT last episode was fine. It was just the car-crash episode 5 and the general pace of the season which were at fault.
I read WoT as a kid, and it started very well. But really, by about the fourth book it just got utterly ridiculous. It would lose viewers by the bucket full. The Malazan book of the fallen could make an incredible tv series. Even darker and even more brutal than got.
I had no problem with where the storyline went in the final series - it was never going to please everyone and as Stephen King said "no-one likes endings". There were bits I felt could have been better - Jaime going full circle and running back to Cercei was a bit odd, although you could argue he'd never truly stopped caring about her, and that impulse overrode all his previous apparent redemption. But agree it felt far too rushed - I liked the idea that series 7 should have still been ten episodes, ending with the defeat of the Whitewalkers. Then the focus on the last series would have been entirely the battle for the Iron Throne. They could have even just done six episodes in the last series if this had been its entire focus. It would also have allowed more time to be given to Jon Snow being the true heir which I thought was glossed over a bit too much.
I thought that the Jamie / Cercei ending was ok - born together/died together cycle thing. Overall, I really liked the series and ending. I was skim reading a news story quoting Simon Pegg talking about 'toxic fandom' with regards to Star Wars and other stuff. I think the same thing here applies and whereas previously, these dissenting voices would have been confined to the sci-fi fanzine or those weird dressing up conferences they have, they now have life and can be seen and felt by all on social media. The article even made reference to the poor sod who played Jar Jar Binks (in Star Wars) getting death threats.