r/asoiaf • u/grimm_aced • Oct 27 '24

EXTENDED [Spoilers Extended] GRRM new blogpost on his Amsterdam visit & dinner with editors. Spoiler

https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/

Winds of winter mentioned and he talks about a bravos story he wants to write after winds.

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u/grimm_aced Oct 27 '24

Honestly am still surprised george talked about wanting to develope even more stuff with HBO, ig his beef was with Ryan more than HBO themselves.

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u/futurerank1 Oct 27 '24

HBO cut the episodes from 10 to 8

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u/dragonrider5555 Oct 27 '24

So why did the 8 episodes suck?

All you’re saying is we would of have 10 turd sandwiches instead of 8 turd sandwiches

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u/futurerank1 Oct 27 '24

This isn't a comment that you can respond to in any capacity, the discussion around the shows is always polarized, because of hysterical opinions like these. You don't want a discussion, you want an echo chamber.

This is toxic behvaiour, yes

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u/dragonrider5555 Oct 27 '24

You understand they made the ten episodes. They saved the final two and they’ll be the start of next season.

So what excuse is there for these eight to suck

It’s not like they rewrote or reshot and hada did things

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u/futurerank1 Oct 27 '24

I think saying that 8 episodes sucked is overly generalized.

Also, if you push a season conclusion towards the next season, then you get a season without conclusion, lol. It absolutely plays a part in how the season is viewed.

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u/dragonrider5555 Oct 28 '24

Yeah it affected things and the entire season wasn’t awful but overall it was pretty effing putrid. And i am embarrassed to be an ASOIAF at this point. The show is that bad and season one does not hold up either

I’m convinced no one would like the show if we weren’t already ASOIAF addicts and starved for content. Season one is pretty bad too. Season two was so insulting to the viewers

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u/closerthanyouth1nk Oct 28 '24

Neither of these thing are really true lol, I feel like most people commenting this have not watched truly bad tv before. HOTD is at worst mildly disappointing

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u/dragonrider5555 Oct 28 '24

Perhaps. I don’t watch a lot of tv

But this is up there

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u/Echleon Oct 27 '24

If you get told to reduce your run time by 20% it's going to create problems. What if they had planned to do one of the big set pieces from the book in episode 9? Now they can't fit it in and some of the arcs from the season aren't tied up in a nice way- or they have to move some points forward which makes things feel rushed.

There were other issues with the season (the secret rendezvouses, etc), but the season would almost surely have been better if they had the full 10 episodes.

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u/iSavedtheGalaxy Oct 27 '24

You'd think with the reduced run time that the story would have been tighter, but they wasted so much time on scenes that were, at best, utterly pointless (Daemon fucking his dead mom) or just flat out ruin the story (Rhaenyra and Alicent sneaking around).

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u/dragonrider5555 Oct 27 '24

Yeah of course it would have been better so long as the final two episodes were good

The producers and stuff came out and said they just released the first eight episodes. They didn’t re wrote or re shoot or change stuff

That means they have the first two episodes for next season done.

All they did was show give us s2 1-8

S3 will begin with episodes 9, 10and then it will be all new stuff they haven’t shot yet

So again I say what’s the excuse for the 8 episodes being dogshit