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Drogon took Dany’s corpse to Volantis and the priestess running the Red Temple who wasn’t Melisandre went “Oh, I can fix this” and brought her back to life like Jon was. Five years into Bran’s reign, King’s Landing is burned down again by Dany and a new invading horde she’d assembled on Essos.
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I liked the way Jorah went out, Dany grabbing a sword out of desperation and all that. and that's about it really. Theon would have been better if he wasn't just obviously sprinting towards death, but the music helped. Besides the music nothing else really stuck with me in season 8 besides jorah. which lol
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Feb 13, 2021 03:06
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bobjr posted:Bran is going to mind hack the dragon to attack the iron bank. Bran will mind hack the iron bank to set money loan =0 like a video game cheat code
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Feb 13, 2021 03:46
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moosecow333 posted:I doubt the writers thought about how the world would continue to function after the final credits roll. I bet they didn't think about Gendry or the fact that most of the story in the books is actually about a banking crisis, but I can't believe that nobody saw a scenario where a king is crowned and the king's sister immediately secedes was supposed to come off as anything other than "This is not a good sign for his reign."
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Precambrian posted:I bet they didn't think about Gendry or the fact that most of the story in the books is actually about a banking crisis, but I can't believe that nobody saw a scenario where a king is crowned and the king's sister immediately secedes was supposed to come off as anything other than "This is not a good sign for his reign." It wasn't that kind of show any more at that point.
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Feb 13, 2021 04:01
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Precambrian posted:I bet they didn't think about Gendry or the fact that most of the story in the books is actually about a banking crisis, but I can't believe that nobody saw a scenario where a king is crowned and the king's sister immediately secedes was supposed to come off as anything other than "This is not a good sign for his reign." Especially when there was a whole sub-plot around Dorne basically seceding for 3/4s of the show, and the Iron Isles being promised their independence if Dany took the throne. Sansa going "the North is independent now" and then pulling the ladder up behind her while Yara and the Unnamed Prince of Dorne just looked on gobsmacked was kind of wild.
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Feb 13, 2021 06:58
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nine-gear crow posted:Drogon took Dany’s corpse to Volantis and the priestess running the Red Temple who wasn’t Melisandre went “Oh, I can fix this” and brought her back to life like Jon was. I know you're kidding but I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they did something like this if they ever get desperate enough to make a sequel series.
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Feb 13, 2021 07:17
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TOOT BOOT posted:I know you're kidding but I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they did something like this if they ever get desperate enough to make a sequel series. I wonder what, besides a cruise ship's load of money, would it take to get Emilia Clarke (and the other actors with surviving characters) back to do anything else Game of Thrones related in a post-Season 8 setting?
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Feb 13, 2021 07:23
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nine-gear crow posted:I wonder what, besides a cruise ship's load of money, would it take to get Emilia Clarke (and the other actors with surviving characters) back to do anything else Game of Thrones related in a post-Season 8 setting? You'd be surprised. They seemed to have fun making it and liked each other as people. Maybe if 10 or 15 years down the line and Game of Thrones is still the biggest role they ever had they might be open to it... Game of Thrones as a franchise definitely isn't going away. This thread hasn't really been active enough to cover it but recently they've been talking about possibly doing Dunk and Egg and Robert's Rebellion spinoffs...
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Feb 13, 2021 07:50
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TOOT BOOT posted:I know you're kidding but I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they did something like this if they ever get desperate enough to make a sequel series. It would go a little something like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_UtRsuIA-Y
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Feb 13, 2021 10:43
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nine-gear crow posted:Emilia Clarke (and the other actors with surviving characters) 
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I guess there should be a comma there or remove the word “other”. Either way, those are meant to be two separate categories: Emilia Clarke... and the rest of the cast who have characters who survived the show.
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Feb 13, 2021 16:54
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What if everything that happened after Bran went in the tree was just a dream of his? Huh huh?
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Feb 13, 2021 16:54
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 People on Reddit going absolutely apeshit over this, you can guess why.
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Vichan posted:
I can't really, no, although I don't give a gently caress about Dr. Who
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My gut tells me the presence of two non-white people is pretty central to their objections.
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Feb 13, 2021 17:45
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Can't wait for a bunch of slobs who have never studied history in their lives (except some Patreon beggar's animated narrative for intellectuals ONLY) to explain to Reddit that people never travelled between continents and anyway everyone was a modern white supremacist "in those days"
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Feb 13, 2021 18:32
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I'm so tired of all these games of thrones. Flush this shitshow already and for good
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Feb 13, 2021 18:33
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Strategic Tea posted:Can't wait for a bunch of slobs who have never studied history in their lives (except some Patreon beggar's animated narrative for intellectuals ONLY) to explain to Reddit that people never travelled between continents and anyway everyone was a modern white supremacist "in those days" I would love to see a historical series in 1600 Mexico, with a complete cast of indigenous Mexicans, Spaniards, and Japanese mercenaries.
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Feb 13, 2021 18:45
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Who's writing the spinoff shows? They're gonna be awful right?
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Feb 13, 2021 18:46
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PittTheElder posted:I would love to see a historical series in 1600 Mexico, with a complete cast of indigenous Mexicans, Spaniards, and Japanese mercenaries. Hell yeah.
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Feb 13, 2021 18:52
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nine-gear crow posted:Drogon took Dany’s corpse to Volantis and the priestess running the Red Temple who wasn’t Melisandre went “Oh, I can fix this” and brought her back to life like Jon was. If this has been the stinger a lot of people would be hype for whatever followed. Given that most of the main casts careers are not exactly skyrocketing I imagine hbo could get most of the band back together and do something based on that premise in 5-10 years anyway for not all that much money, in the large scheme of things. PittTheElder posted:I would love to see a historical series in 1600 Mexico, with a complete cast of indigenous Mexicans, Spaniards, and Japanese mercenaries. Get the 1491/1493 adaptation people on the phone.
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Feb 13, 2021 20:04
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Oh god that reminds me, escaped African slave communities hiding in the mountains. Better still if the only English people are a bunch of pirates.
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Feb 13, 2021 20:15
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Mat Cauthon posted:If this has been the stinger a lot of people would be hype for whatever followed. Also HBO is really good at hiring actors who’ve previously appeared in old HBO shows for new HBO shows. See: Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsay of the hit HBO show Game of Thrones being cast as Joel and Ellie in the soon to be hit HBO show The Last of Us.
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Feb 13, 2021 23:09
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Emilia loving LOVED Daenerys. She was devastated by her ending. Give her a chance to redeem Dany, she would take it I bet.
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Feb 13, 2021 23:44
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Sky Shadowing posted:Emilia loving LOVED Daenerys. She was devastated by her ending. Dany doesn't need redeeming, tragic endings can still be good. The producers just screwed up and should have quit long ago. Her fall should have been more believable, but it should still be there.
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Feb 13, 2021 23:49
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Mat Cauthon posted:If this has been the stinger a lot of people would be hype for whatever followed. I think this is exactly what happened with the finale. There were 3-4 spinoffs they teased (Arya Stark: Pirate Queen; Jon Stark and his Spooky Adventures in the North; Grey Worm the Conquistador; Daenerys "Mostly Dead" Targaryen) and were waiting to see which of those the fandom would demand to see. The answer was: *fart*
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I wonder if they'll ever do an Aegon's Conquest show. I guess it would be hard to make it work as TV because the story basically boils down to "Aegon Targaryen and his sisters have dragons and no one else does. The end.'
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An insane mind posted:Dany doesn't need redeeming, tragic endings can still be good. The producers just screwed up and should have quit long ago. Her fall should have been more believable, but it should still be there. In more competent hands Dany's plunge into madness could have been one of TV's most defining moments. And despite Clark's pretty wooden interpretation (which I think was coming from the writing and direction), I think she had the chops to play a young ruler slowly going crazier and crazier until a final irredeemable act thrusts all the previous crazy into the light. It's a shame really. There was so much potential there.
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Irony Be My Shield posted:Who's writing the spinoff shows? They're gonna be awful right? What does your heart tell you?
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Nail Rat posted:What does your heart tell you? Game of Thrones, brought to you by Scott Buck Actually, how much worse could his version have been?
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TOOT BOOT posted:I wonder if they'll ever do an Aegon's Conquest show. I guess it would be hard to make it work as TV because the story basically boils down to "Aegon Targaryen and his sisters have dragons and no one else does. The end.' If they learned any lessons, House of the Dragon would depict these things as flashbacks or visions or whatever. I believe the new show is covering the "Dance of Dragons" story of a Targaryan succession dispute, so reference to what Targaryan unity under Aegon the Conqueror was like would make sense. GoT set up a lot of potential parallels between the main story and Robert's Rebellion (Cersei as a Mad Queen, the Stark/Targaryan alliance as an inversion of the Stark/Baratheon one, Jaime as a possible Queenslayer, and what-not.) They probably should've leaned into those parallels and referenced way more of Robert's Rebellion in the last two seasons (use Bran to show the Battle at the Trident, etc.), but they didn't. And I suspect part of that was hubris, that maybe they'd make a Robert's Rebellion show one day and should leave their options open. I feel this way about a lot of things, though. That successful franchises spread their content so thin, the whole thing collapses. Star Wars is doing it now, turning The Mandalorian into a Boba Fett show, Rangers of the New Republic, and Ahsoka as distinct series happening at the same time. Can they support all that? Who knows.
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Pretty sure that Rangers one is dead now that they fired Carano.
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Xealot posted:GoT set up a lot of potential parallels between the main story and Robert's Rebellion (Cersei as a Mad Queen, the Stark/Targaryan alliance as an inversion of the Stark/Baratheon one, Jaime as a possible Queenslayer, and what-not.) They probably should've leaned into those parallels and referenced way more of Robert's Rebellion in the last two seasons (use Bran to show the Battle at the Trident, etc.), but they didn't. And I suspect part of that was hubris, that maybe they'd make a Robert's Rebellion show one day and should leave their options open. They didn't do that because they hate flashbacks. Which is weird because the original pilot had one. It sucks we'll probably never see it because they're embarrassed of it. And if they're embarrassed of it, it has to be really bad.
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Solice Kirsk posted:And despite Clark's pretty wooden interpretation (which I think was coming from the writing and direction), I think she had the chops to play a young ruler slowly going crazier and crazier until a final irredeemable act thrusts all the previous crazy into the light. I've seen her Breakfast at Tiffany's, and I think a "wooden interpretation" is the kind of value adding you hire Emilia Clarke for.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Pretty sure that Rangers one is dead now that they fired Carano. It's a separate show. Carano was getting her own Cara Dune spin-off that had nothing to do with Ranger of the New Republic, but Disney held off on announcing it at their Investors Day thing under threat to Carano that she stop posting crazy poo poo on social media. She in fact could not stop posting crazy poo poo on social media and now that unannounced show is either dead, or in limbo pending a potential recast of Cara Dune.
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nine-gear crow posted:It's a separate show. Carano was getting her own Cara Dune spin-off that had nothing to do with Ranger of the New Republic, but Disney held off on announcing it at their Investors Day thing under threat to Carano that she stop posting crazy poo poo on social media. She in fact could not stop posting crazy poo poo on social media and now that unannounced show is either dead, or in limbo pending a potential recast of Cara Dune. I've heard this before, but I can't seem to find a source on it. Source? Edit: not the chud stuff, she's obviously stupid. I mean the behind the curtain stuff at Disney. Open Source Idiom fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Feb 15, 2021 |
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Open Source Idiom posted:I've seen her Breakfast at Tiffany's, and I think a "wooden interpretation" is the kind of value adding you hire Emilia Clarke for. I'm sure Emilia Clarke is a perfectly charming person, but an acting powerhouse she ain't. They'll try to slot her into the odd action role here and there, and she'll do the occasional comedic voice acting gig, but I'm fairly confident she's going to be making a lot of romcoms where the role calls for a pretty woman with a British accent.
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Open Source Idiom posted:I've heard this before, but I can't seem to find a source on it. From the editor of The Hollywood Reporter: https://twitter.com/AaronCouch/status/1359698566781034498 E: the tweet is still kind of vague, maybe they were going to announce that she was headlining Rangers of the New Republic, but only announced the show instead because she couldn't stop being a crazypants on Twitter. So yeah, I think Rangers of the New Republic is going forward anyway without Gina Carano, it's just TBD if it'll be staring a new character completely or a recast Cara Dune. nine-gear crow fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Feb 15, 2021 |
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Sydney Bottocks posted:I'm sure Emilia Clarke is a perfectly charming person, but an acting powerhouse she ain't. They'll try to slot her into the odd action role here and there, and she'll do the occasional comedic voice acting gig, but I'm fairly confident she's going to be making a lot of romcoms where the role calls for a pretty woman with a British accent. Honestly her acting abilities were perfect for the way GoT was treating all its female characters after a certain point. The writers didn't know what else to do with women other than make them furrow their brows and not saying anything, and swirling a wine glass if you're Lena Headey.
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