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Thread: HBO's Game of Thrones - Final Season VIII - 2nd Thread

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Originally Posted By Bar182⏩
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https://thumbs.gfycat.com/HandsomeSi...con-mobile.mp4

what in the fuk. Did they seriously just stitch together the final season over a pub lunch?
The dropping the knife to a second hand isn't a new thing in knife fights. That's why I was so underwhelmed to see a popcorn move be what killed a biblical character on Game Of Thrones.

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Originally Posted By markkillerings⏩
The dropping the knife to a second hand isn't a new thing in knife fights. That's why I was so underwhelmed to see a popcorn move be what killed a biblical character on Game Of Thrones.
It not just dropping the knife, the cinematography was exactly the same....
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Originally Posted By Bar182⏩
It not just dropping the knife, the cinematography was exactly the same....
I see.

But yeah, it was goofy seeing the Night King be vanquished by a parlor trick.
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Seen some talk about budget limitations etc.

This is all on D&D

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..........the showrunners refused.............
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Can’t believe they couldn’t make it 8 episodes long to at least not shiet rush every big point when they literally spent entire episodes narrating the story before. Such a big let down. They literally did the cookie cutter story line you see in Disney movies. What happened to scenes like battle of the bastards? Bruh I am disappoint.
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If that's the case then I'm surprised that HBO just didn't give the show to someone else to finish.... unless D&D bought the television rights?

Even so.... that's piss poor. And just another inidication that....

a) they don't care about their audience.

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b) they obviously underestimated how difficult it was going to be to follow GRRM's writing.
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ultimately it's HBO's fault for not giving it to somebody else. they had faith it could be done with drastically cut down show hours. Their mistake.
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Originally Posted By ceizer1985⏩
Seen some talk about budget limitations etc.

This is all on D&D

"73 hours"

How did they arrive at that random number?
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Originally Posted By bartosh⏩
ultimately it's HBO's fault for not giving it to somebody else. they had faith it could be done with drastically cut down show hours. Their mistake.
wot d&d are the reason for the show's success though it is an adaptation. it is a perfect tv adaptation. no one has ever made a good tv adaptation before. y'all are crazy srs. look at how many ****ty adaptations there are. then look at GOT. it's probably the most perfect book adaptation aside from LOTR.
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Originally Posted By 2RDEYE⏩
wot d&d are the reason for the show's success though it is an adaptation. it is a perfect tv adaptation. no one has ever made a good tv adaptation before. y'all are crazy srs. look at how many ****ty adaptations there are. then look at GOT.it's probably the most perfect book adaptationaside from LOTR.
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Originally Posted By ohiostate124⏩
name some then lol

thin red line is the only other one i can think of off the top of my head. but even then it is not as complex as game of thrones or lord of the rings

i guess i'm talking more fantasy book adaptations. though.
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Originally Posted By 2RDEYE⏩
name some then lol

thin red line is the only other one i can think of off the top of my head. but even then it is not as complex as game of thrones or lord of the rings
Point is, if you think this is a perfect adaptation, you haven’t read the books. If you haven’t read them, making a statement like that is just ridiculously stupid in the first place.
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Originally Posted By 2RDEYE⏩
wot d&d are the reason for the show's success though it is an adaptation. it is a perfect tv adaptation. no one has ever made a good tv adaptation before. y'all are crazy srs. look at how many ****ty adaptations there are. then look at GOT. it's probably the most perfect book adaptation aside from LOTR.
Lol, endings don't matter then huh? I dont give a flying fuk if dumb and dumber were able to adapt the books to a show and with the help of GRRM put it in the conversation for one of the GOAT tv shows ever up until season 6-7 if they cant finish it properly. They turned it from being on of the GOAT shows to completely ruining it. Why? Cause apparently they had this arbitrary number of 73 hours that it should take to tell the entire story. EL OH FUKING EL.
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Originally Posted By ohiostate124⏩
Point is, if you think this is a perfect adaptation, you haven’t read the books. If you haven’t read them, making a statement like that is just ridiculously stupid in the first place.
perfect TV adaptation. there is no way they would be able to adapt every single thing in the books 1:1
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Lol, endings don't matter then huh? I dont give a flying fuk if dumb and dumber were able to adapt the books to a show and with the help of GRRM put it in the conversation for one of the GOAT tv shows ever up until season 6-7 if they cant finish it properly. They turned it from being on of the GOAT shows to completely ruining it. Why? Cause apparently they had this arbitrary number of 73 hours that it should take to tell the entire story. EL OH FUKING EL.
how would you have them end it then... it would just be like i forget the phrase... but it would just be more of the same, they'd just be milking it. there is no more content in the books to adapt. they could've gone with more episodes but it would just be lingering on and on.

GRRM barely helped with the tv series, it was all d&d and their staff.
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Originally Posted By 2RDEYE⏩
perfect TV adaptation. there is no way they would be able to adapt every single thing in the books 1:1
Of course it doesn’t need to be a perfect 1:1 adaptation but they left out sooooooo much stuff that could have fixed quite a few issues that are very apparent this season.
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Originally Posted By ohiostate124⏩
Of course it doesn’t need to be a perfect 1:1 adaptation but they left out sooooooo much stuff that could have fixed quite a few issues that are very apparent this season.
i don't think so.. cause there's no legit written ending to the books yet either way lol. if not d&d then someone else would make something up
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Originally Posted By 2RDEYE⏩
i don't think so.. cause there's no legit ending to the books yet either way lol. if not d&d then someone else would make something up
Read this. It’s long but worth it and can explain the situation better than I could.

https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comm...iff_and_euron/
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Originally Posted By 2RDEYE⏩
perfect TV adaptation. there is no way they would be able to adapt every single thing in the books 1:1



how would you have them end it then... it would just be like i forget the phrase... but it would just be more of the same, they'd just be milking it. there is no more content in the books to adapt. they could've gone with more episodes but it would just be lingering on and on.

GRRM barely helped with the tv series, it was all d&d and their staff.
Perfect adaptation is sticking the ending. They failed so far and if the spoilers are correct, it will go down as one of the biggest final season failures in tv history.
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Originally Posted By ohiostate124⏩
Read this. It’s long but worth it and can explain the situation better than I could.

https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comm...iff_and_euron/
yeah i've read most of what happens with dorne, euron, and the whole young griff stuff.

the part where they messed up in the tv series is dumbing down dorne and euron. i think the young griff stuff is unnecessary. but dumbing down euron was a bad decision. i've read what he does in the books. they would definitely need another 2 seasons i think if they added this stuff. way back when.

as a tv adaptation it is still damn ****ing good tv. what they adapted is perfect.
Originally Posted By dmike100⏩
Perfect adaptation is sticking the ending. They failed so far and if the spoilers are correct, it will go down as one of the biggest final season failures in tv history.
it stopped being an adaptation after they went off the books in season 6 or 7 lol. but season 1-5 was masterpiece television material. actually season 6 wasn't that bad.



season 6
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Originally Posted By 2RDEYE⏩
yeah i've read most of what happens with dorne, euron, and the whole young griff stuff.

the part where they messed up in the tv series is dumbing down dorne and euron. i think the young griff stuff is unnecessary. but dumbing down euron was a bad decision. i've read what he does in the books. they would definitely need another 2 seasons i think if they added this stuff. way back when.

as a tv adaptation it is still damn ****ing good tv. what they adapted is perfect.



it stopped being an adaptation after they went off the books in season 6 lol. but season 1-5 was masterpiece television material
Tell a cohesive story for 7 seasons, forget everything about the characters, character motivations, story, and dialogue in last season......how to wreck a series 101.
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i personally want d&d to put as much effort into adapting the eric nylund halo fall of reach novels. they can do whatever the **** they want after ghost of onyx.

lets be real though. let's say all the asoiaf books were finished. they would have made the best tv series of the century.
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lol at these autistis now not even giving D&D credit for making seasons 1-6

and this ending is already 10x better than the 3rd Lord of the Rings which was practically unwatchable.

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Originally Posted By 2RDEYE⏩
how would you have them end it then... it would just be like i forget the phrase... but it would just be more of the same, they'd just be milking it. there is no more content in the books to adapt. they could've gone with more episodes but it would just be lingering on and on.

GRRM barely helped with the tv series, it was all d&d and their staff.
It's already been said many times ITT....

1) Have the NK and his army overwhelm Winterfell and kill about half of the main characters there.

2) Have a couple of eps where the survivors flee to Iron Islands to regroup and then head down south.

3) Have Cersei FINALLY realize the error of her ways and join the fight once the army of the dead surrounds King's Landing (or have Jaime or Tyrion kill her).

4) Massive final battle with all of the survivors vs. the undead army again (with Bran possibly playing a pivotal role in the NK's defeat).

5) Perhaps a final ep where the survivors (if there are any) finally decide who will sit on the Iron Throne (or maybe they just ditch the throne altogether).


How hard was that?
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Originally Posted By nvrstopworking⏩
It's already been said many times ITT....

1) Have the NK and his army overwhelm Winterfell and kill about half of the main characters there.

2) Have a couple of eps where the survivors flee to Iron Islands to regroup and then head down south.

3) Have Cersei FINALLY realize the error of her ways and join the fight once the army of the dead surrounds King's Landing (or have Jaime or Tyrion kill her).

4) Massive final battle with all of the survivors vs. the undead army again (with Bran possibly playing a pivotal role in the NK's defeat).

5) Perhaps a final ep where the survivors (if there are any) finally decide who will sit on the Iron Throne (or maybe they just ditch the throne altogether).


How hard was that?
TBH I never wanted all the survivors to work together. I want people like the Lannisters and Littlefinger to keep playing the game and the realm to remain fractured while the WWs just overwhelm the continent.

Too bad it just took Dany and some of the North to win it.
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Originally Posted By 2RDEYE⏩
wot d&d are the reason for the show's success though it is an adaptation. it is a perfect tv adaptation. no one has ever made a good tv adaptation before. y'all are crazy srs. look at how many ****ty adaptations there are. then look at GOT. it's probably the most perfect book adaptation aside from LOTR.
It's pretty straightforward. d&d showed that they are absolute masters at adaptingalready writtenbook material onto the screen. Nobody is arguing that the adaptation portion isn't a masterpiece. But there's a difference between adapting GRRM's books and then what they did once the books were done

Season 7 should have showed hbo that d&d are nowhere near as good at coming up with their own material. HBO shouldn't have moved forward with d&d for season 8 and the fact that hbo offered additional seasons, d&d declined, and HBO still went with d&d is HBO's fault.

So I still stand by the opinion that HBO is at fault for not dropping d&d for season 8. But on the other hand I don't have suggestions for who they should have used instead as writers. So ultimately it is what it is.
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