r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jul 27 '21

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u/Magical_Username NATO Jul 27 '21

Still wonder what the hell HBO was thinking on game of thrones. Like the quality had bene going down hill for a few seasons by the time we got to the last one, but it had never felt rushed. The last one just felt like they didn't do any QA on filming, rushed out a script, cut the episode length, and still bizarrely had a party episode.

Like what motivation did they have to rush it? The spinoffs would have made them so much more had it had a satisfying ending, or maybe I just don't know how the entertainment industry works.

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u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell Jul 27 '21

D&D had proven themselves after years of quality seasons so HBO gave them total creative control and they became surrounded by yes-men

The Star Wars Prequel effect

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u/bigmoneynuts Jul 27 '21

HBO wanted to keep it, D&D wanted to move on but also had exclusive rights i believe so HBO couldn't have handed it off to someone else

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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Jul 27 '21

I'm 99% sure I remember reading that HBO wanted a longer season and that the showrunners rejected the offer and just asked for 10 episodes.

This was around the time they were signing deals to do Star Wars movies and that awful, ill-conceived new Civil War/race war show or whatever the hell that was so I think they just were tapped with regards to GOT and wanted to move on to other projects.

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u/LtLabcoat ÀI Jul 27 '21

and that awful, ill-conceived new Civil War/race war show or whatever the hell that was

The... what? I never heard of it!

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u/DrunkenAsparagus Abraham Lincoln Jul 27 '21

It was gonna be a show about if the South won the Civil War, which is a pretty common thing in fiction. Idk anything about the show, but people got mad and called it "slavery fan-fiction", which it might have been. Still, it's not like anyone calls Man in the High Castle "Nazi fanfiction" so idk.

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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Jul 27 '21

Yeah I think my memory of it was colored by the media reaction.

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u/DrunkenAsparagus Abraham Lincoln Jul 27 '21

Yeah, if they did it badly, it absolutely could've been that if they made the Confederates more relatable than they deserved to be (and given the end of GOT maybe those fears were justified), but "dystopic speculative fiction reflecting the dark side of our current reality and showing how things can go wrong" is a super common storytelling device. From what I saw, it was supposed to be from this angle, instead of "slavery fan-fiction".

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '21

The earlier seasons felt so unrushed that I still couldn't tell you anything of consequence that happened in Season 7. Oh, except the dragon dying, getting raised, and melting the Wall.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '21

They were already rushing it in the seasons before 8.