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HBO has five potential Game of Thrones spinoffs in development [GRRM & Bloys updates]
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Civilization will be over before the next book is out :/
Milking the cash cow
Well its its good. I am fine with it. And there is alot to tell before Game of Thrones. And is good.
Which was fantastic!!!
serenewarfare
Banned
Ramsay shooting Wun Wun absolutely makes sense. He's exactly the type of guy who would want to brag about taking down the giant, so he took the opportunity. Sansa's actions to me are purposely inconsistent. She's trying to be someone she's not, and I think there's a purposeful juxtaposition with Cersei who does it well and Sansa who doesn't.
Heckler456
Banned
The book series will never be finished, will it?
Extra Sauce
Member
I wonder what the respective production budgets of those shows will be. Game of Thrones's is... I want to say the biggest in the history of the medium?
MiamiWesker
Member
Hey here is an idea GRRM, how about you write THE FUCKING BOOKS!!!!!!!!
crimzonflame
Member
Do you think will be tired of the series by then?
Username1198
Member
I wouldn't mind seeing a season of the hounds early days.
But the ones you named are good. Would love to see Roberts rebellion
The Artisan
Member
y'know, on 420 I was chillin with a posse and someone said "i like how they're ending it instead of milking it on to keep making money" and i was like "yeah i like how they're ending it too but they are definitely going to do more with the IP considering how popular the show is...won't abandon it"
Sansa is also significantly younger and got literally thrown into all of this without her consent.
Cersei took it.
I think Sansa is a great character and I'm super intrigued to see what they'll do with it.
TWrecks310
Banned
Basically this except I'm less lenient toward Sansa not telling Jon anything. The inconsistencies were purposeful but very naive and dumb. I find it hard to believe that an inexperienced Sansa would still manage to do something like that.
The thing is that Ramsay could kill them both. Jon first and then the giant. Ramsay's an expert marksman and that giant is an easy target.
The thing isn't that Sansa is purposefully inconsistent. She's inconsistently written.
She's a player, she's a pawn, she's a victim, she's a player, she's a pawn, she's a victim. Her character is all over the place.
It doesn't help that Sophie Turner promises every season that this is the season when Sansa finally becomes a player. Show Sansa is a Cersei-wannabe at best.
Goro Majima
Kitty Genovese Member
I don't understand why they wouldn't just do a 10 or 20 or however many years later sequel instead of a prequel?
I'm struggling to think of a prequel that I liked besides a good chunk of what was shown in the Godfather part 2 and that was shown alongside a sequel.
Prequels also lack tension since the outcome is known.
I'm struggling to think of a prequel that I liked besides a good chunk of what was shown in the Godfather part 2 and that was shown alongside a sequel.
Prequels also lack tension since the outcome is known.
No. Good thing we have the show.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
I'll take all 4 for full series commissions
Winds of Winter is never coming out.
Better Call Saul is how you do a good prequel.
Nope.
Knowing the outcome doesn't mean that we can't be entertained and thrilled by the journey. Millions of people watched and revered The People v. OJ knowing everything that happened.
I would only say this if the season 7 leaks had actually been full of good stuff. But they weren't.
Nothing in the series or its promo materials supports that reading. Indeed, D&D refer to it as Sansa getting exactly what she wanted, and it ends on her smiling triumphantly. Moreover, if any of this was purposeful, there would be actual consequences for her ridiculous actions, which logically would lead to her being blamed by Jon for causing hundreds/thousands of deaths. Instead, she's credited with victory, for doing something that literally anybody could have done with the information she had.
It's funny, because the other day...I was actually trying to think of a list of genuinely great prequels.
Better Call Saul was literally all I could think of.
QuiteWhittle
Member
lmao
Cornballer
Member
serenewarfare
Banned
Yeah, but Ramsay is egotistical, so he would absolutely go for the more notable target first. He's not afraid of Jon, but taking down the last giant is a legendary accomplishment.
And again, I think you are just interpreting Sansa differently. She's written inconsistently because her character is supposed to be inconsistent. She's all over the place because she's supposed to be in the world of the story. She's young and trying to do things she's not ready for or at times willing to do. She's never truly been in control, now she always wants to be. She's blinded by that, and it leads to inconsistent decision making.
Like you are blaming the writing for things that are completely justified and logical given the story up to this point.
Because GRRM has all the backstory and story they need for prequels in many eras.
Doing a 20 year sequel would be akin to Dragonball GT because it's an area GRRM isn't planning to tell stories on and neither does he have a story outline to help them out.
Besides for all we know the ending ends on a note where you can't do a sequel or a good one anyways.
youbastards
Member
No need for 3-4 series, just give me one awesome Game of Thrones anthology series. Touch on prequel stories, fill in some of the gaps of the main series, delve into some of the Dunk & Egg stuff. Give me an episode with a day in the life of Wun Wun.
Agreed, but I'd watch the shit out of Dunk and Egg.
Cesare Borgia
Banned
Dunk & Egg sounds great in theory but would be too dry for the audience after 8 seasons of dragons and white walkers. I'm assuming they'd add more sex and violence but it wouldn't be enough.
Dance Of Dragons would be pretty fucking expensive (16+ dragons) and they wouldn't have any well fleshed out characters to rely on. There certainly are badass characters (chief among them Aemond Targaryen) but the ASOIAF novels provide far more material to work off, for characters.
Robert's Rebellion would also be expensive, but dragon-less. Martin seems rather hesitant to fully flesh everything out about it, so I kinda think he'd veto this.
Dance Of Dragons would be pretty fucking expensive (16+ dragons) and they wouldn't have any well fleshed out characters to rely on. There certainly are badass characters (chief among them Aemond Targaryen) but the ASOIAF novels provide far more material to work off, for characters.
Robert's Rebellion would also be expensive, but dragon-less. Martin seems rather hesitant to fully flesh everything out about it, so I kinda think he'd veto this.
Robot Pants
Member
RIP, HBO.
Let me know when you finally figure out 4K, and when you can make a decent streaming app.
No but four Game of Thrones spinoffs is a MUCH better idea.....
Let me know when you finally figure out 4K, and when you can make a decent streaming app.
No but four Game of Thrones spinoffs is a MUCH better idea.....
Maintenance
Member
I really don't care if the show's ending is garbage, at this point I just want closure.
They can tell me a meteor struck Westeros and everyone died except Gendry since he kept rowing and crossed the event horizon.
Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!
Member
Can't wait for the Robert's Rebellion tie in novel written by Daniel Abraham.
lol?
Will the Thrill
Banned
I'm pretty sure the teams getting stuff like this in the works would be completely different from the people working on their apps.....
Mac the KNife
Member
Time to finally pitch my spin-off buddy comedy series starring Rennick and his partner as they bumble their way through Westros before ultimately being drafted into the Lannister Army. Like a medieval Stripes if Bill Murray got eaten by a giant wolf at the end.
serenewarfare
Banned
They didn't really order that. D&D have said that's really all they have left. They couldn't stretch it out any more than that even if they wanted to.
pretty cool, guess it means books are never coming out
they need to show old valyria and asshai and all the nonsense that happeend their
even the whole first men and children of the forest
roberts rebellion...
age of heros
lots of backstory to go through hopefully it turns out good
guessing though they will need martins input though
they need to show old valyria and asshai and all the nonsense that happeend their
even the whole first men and children of the forest
roberts rebellion...
age of heros
lots of backstory to go through hopefully it turns out good
guessing though they will need martins input though
GuitarAtomik
Member
My gut reaction is to not be interested in this, but when I think about it, I'd totally watch a show that got deeper in to the history of GoT.
Her character isn't supposed to be inconsistent. It's just badly constructed. The show producers do not know what to do with Sansa.
I mean what was the point of her storyline in season 5, for example? How did she grow as a character?
Anyways you're looking too deeply into this. The writers are a lot more incompetent than you know. O
I mean these are the dudes that wrote X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Troy.