Can I sign a petition to ban dumb petitions?
I could be wrong, but I think the number of people who held off of signing a futile, petulant nerdrage petition after the fifth episode, but are excited to sign it after the sixth, is not gonna be huge.
Imagine you’re HBO, and you’ve got a spare hundred million dollars sitting around. Do you re-do the entire last season of your biggest series, which will still not have any more episodes or do you spend it on some new shows that might be somewhat popular and continue past the one season?
A remake wouldn’t make anyone happy. There is a reason this petition appeared right after episode 5, it’s Dany’s heel turn that people want rewritten. Not the plot holes, the bad writing, the complete 180 in quality of the show. Nope, its something that was pre determined before the show started that they want changed.
I would like a redo of the 2002 Stanley Cup finals since my favorite team lost.
A petition for another season makes a lot more sense.
They can change the story anyway they want. Kill off characters and add new ones.
It seems crazy to end such a popular show.
That’s the interesting thing about Game of Thrones. It doesn’t matter what they revealed in the Finale. You know events will change quickly off screen. These characters will never stop manipulating each other.
You folks are looking at this the wrong way imo.
Everyone knows its ludicrous to think that the show can be remade. Its not going to happen.
But its a way for all the voices to come together and show the displeasure of ruining what was a great show.
Its the frustration of waiting two years to see the conclusion and be presented with something that was absolutely pure garbage.
all popular shows end often because actors and creators want to move on . GOT with 8 seasons/73 episodes is a lot for HBO . Sopranos went 6 seasons and 86 episodes , that is probably the most of any HBO show.
No, that’s pretty much what it looks like to me as well, although the negative opinion you have of the show, I have of the folks thinking they need an organized way to bring their voices together to show their displeasure with how the show went.
Are you saying that all 600k people that signed the petition have the same ideas about how the show should have ended? I highly doubt it. It could have ended many numerous ways, and lots of people would still be disappointed.
Meh, it’s just a television show, you’ll get over it.
I want a redo of season 7 and 8 where Margaery survives and most of the episodes deal with her slowly advancing in the sparrow hierarchy and finally becoming high Sparrow herself and have the old high sparrow humiliated and thrown in the dungeons. Khaleesi and Jon both realises they are at best mediocre leaders and renounce any claim to iron thrones or kingdom in the norf’. Cercei stubs her toe, dies. A Lannister cousin who looks exactly like Lena Headey with a red or black wig becomes head of house Lannister. Together they go and defeat the night King.
Where do I sign?
IMDB ratings for this season’s six episodes. For context, no episode in seasons 1-7 ever received a rating below 8.0.
- 8.0
- 8.2
- 7.9
- 5.9
- 6.5
- 4.7
Margaery dies in Season 6, so you’d have to go back that far to rewrite her story. And if people are so gung-ho to see this rewritten, why not write your own fan fiction? You can end it however you wish, without HBO having to blow a hundred million dollars on a pointless exercise.
I don’t know why you are assigning these motives to the showrunners. I’ve seen nothing to suggest that the ending was anything other than what GRRM had planned from the beginning. Jaime’s end happened because that’s how Martin wanted to end. If the show was about what the audience “really, really needed to see” then Robb Stark would be on the Iron Throne and all of the giant cute doggies would be alive.
No, I dont think that the 1 millionth plus that signed the petition all wanted the same ending, they wanted a better storytelling. This conclusion could have been much more satisfying if the story was told otherwise. Thats all.
I’m not a GoT fan - read the first two book ages ago, and only ever saw one episode of the TV show, so I’m not directly defending the last season, but…
Since when (in real life history) has burning a city to the ground ever been a problem for military and/or political leaders? Both in terms of personal morality, and in terms of their long-term ability to retain power? I mean, Dresden was burned to the ground using superior air power less than a century ago, and none of the people responsible for it were assassinated, or rendered social pariahs, or anything. Most of them spent the rest of their lives being lauded for it. (Although one person involved in planning the raid was totally and unambiguously Evill).
I bet a few people here want to redo an election held in 2016 . Here in NC they are redoing an election for Congress from last year.
Sure, but there was corruption in that Congressional race in North Carolina. Meanwhile, the 2016 US presidential election was completely aboveboard and clean. “No collusion. No obstruction.”
In Martin’s fictional world, “Kings Landing” is the biggest city not only in its own kingdom, but on the entire continent, and as such is the economic engine of a large part of that continent.
Was the same true of Dresden?
Or was Dresden destroyed as, basically, leverage: if you don’t want this to happen to any of your other cities, you’d better surrender. (That’s a notable simplification of the WW2 situation, of course, but it’s the part that’s relevant to this discussion.) No such thing was going on in the GoT storyline: Dany wasn’t trying to get a massive military machine that dominated the continent to stand down–as was the case with the Allies confronting the German Nazis.
I can’t see that Dresden provides a good analogy in any way to the GoT plot-line. Better would be, say, London in 1480—if a foreign invader had burned it to the ground, much of the economic life of the entire nation of England would have been massively effected. Not so with Dresden (and Germany) in 1945.
Multiple threads now into a series of uncalled-for insults of people who criticized a (hacky, ill-considered, lazily written) fantasy television season, congrats. This is the sneeringest and the snidest and the least called for. Yes, you’ve nailed it. I thought the plot beats were awfully delivered because I sleep with a Badass Dany body pillow and had all my friends pumped to watch the Awesome Dragon Lady. I thought this would end with a Harry Potter style flash forward of Dany and Jon’s kids going to school with Samwell Jr. It’s not that I just watched it, thought it was notably poorly done, and then went on with my life – I’m lashing out because of heartbreak. That’s where my casually held (and previously not even expressed because why wade into that) opinions about bad storytelling are coming from.