• jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    The problem with Game of Thrones is this:

    They ran out of material to adapt. They hit a wall where they ran out of books and had to adapt Martin’s PowerPoint slides, and it shows!

    • scops@reddthat.com
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      14 hours ago

      I think there was a lot more going on than that. Benioff and Weiss wanted out. They wanted to collect all their accolades and move on to fresh IPs. HBO was happy to give them more money and time to construct full-length seasons, but they chose to push the last two with shorter runs.

      I think if they had handed the show off to fresh showrunners ready to build on the existing plot threads and pacing of the show, we’d be looking back on it very differently.

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        12 hours ago

        Yeah. There are a lot of story beats that everyone knows GRRM would write (if he only cared to continue the series) and those story beats were in the show. They had enough material to work with, they simply chose to rush through all of it.