# Valar Hiatus: The Game of Thrones offseason thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [June 5, 2012, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208 "2012-06-05T22:13:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 55
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/1081 "2019-07-16T20:57:28Z")
> [@Telperion](#): > > [A Song of Vanilla Ice and Fire](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nws1JQHBlJA) is probably the best remix I’ve heard this year. LOL - thanks for that! ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/1082 "2019-07-18T19:41:52Z")
3 GOT actors nominated themselves for emmys after HBO did not nominate them [Game of Thrones actress Gwendoline Christie nominates herself for an Emmy, gets nod - CNET](https://www.cnet.com/news/game-of-thrones-actress-gwendoline-christie-nominates-herself-for-an-emmy-gets-nod/?ftag=COS-05-10aaa0b) ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2019, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/1083 "2019-07-20T13:12:46Z")
the show creators skipped the big San Diego Comic Con , they were supposed to appear. I suppose they made a smart choice rather than subject themselves to the tantrum throwers. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/1084 "2019-08-15T16:46:32Z")
The Cast Remembers (a nice short GOT retrospective): [The Cast Remembers | Game of Thrones: Season 8 (HBO) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vioOIXrOAa0) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/1085 "2019-10-21T14:01:08Z")
Just the things for your Christmas tree? > **[Game of Thrones Ice Dragon](https://www.creationsandcollections.com/products/ku182?_pos=1&_sid=df7e95b39&_ss=r)** > > The series might be over now, and the Throne claimed, but grabbing a small piece from the tale this holiday will bring you back into the plot. The Legendary Ice Dragon comes to life with the expertly crafted details. This Game of Thrones™ ornament is... > **[Game of Thrones Night King](https://www.creationsandcollections.com/products/ku218?_pos=1&_sid=617744f17&_ss=r)** > > The series might be over now, and the Throne claimed, but grabbing a small piece from the tale this holiday will bring you back into the plot. The leader of the White Walkers, the Night King is poised to take over Westeros. This Game of... [https://www.creationsandcollections.com/products/ku217?\_pos=1&\_sid=0b296bcbf&\_ss=r](https://www.creationsandcollections.com/products/ku217?_pos=1&_sid=0b296bcbf&_ss=r) ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/1086 "2019-10-22T13:34:34Z")
I’m on an ‘official’ GRRM mail list which seems to do nothing but churn out offers of expensive “collector’s editions” of the existing books and all sorts of, well, “ornamental” crap. Each time I get a mailing I find myself grinding my teeth. Really? You used to be a writer, now you’re a company bent on commercializing your creation in every possible way? Well, except for actually WRITING more of it, that is. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2019, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/1087 "2019-10-29T21:46:28Z")
Apparently the long watch prequel with Naomi Watts got canceled. They were as far along as having a pilot, it must have been dire. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/1088 "2019-10-30T09:39:04Z")
Claims are the pilot was thrown back, reworked and still rejected. The 300 years old Targ origins was now the main focus out of the set of prequels, which sounds like Dance with Dragons V1. But all in all, I’ve lost the will to live on finding out detailed history about an unfinished set of books. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/1089 "2019-10-30T16:39:54Z")
That was the least interesting of the plots they could have chosen. Dance of dragons, Roberts rebellion, Blackfyre rebellion, the original conquest, those are all interesting. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/1090 "2019-10-30T17:46:51Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > That was the least interesting of the plots they could have chosen. Dance of dragons, Roberts rebellion, Blackfyre rebellion, the original conquest, those are all interesting. Well you should be happy then, because it seems like it’s about the original conquest. > **[‘Game of Thrones’ Prequel Series ‘House of the Dragon’ Ordered at HBO](https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/game-of-thrones-prequel-house-of-the-dragon-hbo-1203387420/)** > > Set 300 years before the events of “Game of Thrones,” the series tells the story of House Targaryen > [@](#): > > A prequel series based on the “Game of Thrones” companion book “Fire & Blood” has been ordered straight-to-series at the premium cabler. The series will be titled “House of the Dragon.” Set 300 years before the events of “Game of Thrones,” the series tells the story of House Targaryen. Frequent “Game of Thrones” director Miguel Sapochnik will direct the pilot and additional episodes. Book and Season 1 begin in 298 AC. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/1091 "2019-10-30T19:47:58Z")
Doesn’t AC mean “after conquest”? ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/1092 "2019-10-30T21:15:31Z")
The War for Aegon’s Conquest is from from 2 BC to 1 AC. > **[Aegon's Conquest](https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Aegon%27s_Conquest)** > > Aegon's Conquest,\[1\]\[2\] also called the Conquest,\[3\]\[4\] was the campaign in which Aegon I Targaryen conquered most of Westeros. Together with his sisters, Visenya and Rhaenys, and their dragons, Balerion, Vhagar and Meraxes, Aegon subdued six of the... Where 2 BC is when Aegon’s Landing occurred (landing on the mouth Blackwater Rush - which would eventually become the city of King’s Landing). I’m sure they’ll fill in some backstory how they got the Dragonstone before conquest, how Argillac Durrandon the Storm King pissed off Aegon, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2020, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/1093 "2020-01-17T15:13:28Z")
HBO ordered a full season of GOT prequel , probably airs in 2022. > **[House Of The Dragon: Release Date And Everything Else We Know About HBO's...](https://www.gamespot.com/gallery/house-of-the-dragon-release-date-and-everything-else-we-know-about-hbos-game-of-thrones-prequel/2900-3356/)** > > The first Game of Thrones spin-off is on the way, and here's everything we know about it so far. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2020, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/1094 "2020-01-17T15:17:59Z")
Ideally, HBO should have had follow-on series (prequels, sequels, whatever) ready to air within a year of the last Game of Thrones episode. Is 2022 too long? Will there still be interest then? The entertainment industry lately has been all about franchises. Look at how AMC kept Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead alive with other series. HBO hasn’t done that yet, even though Game of Thrones was a monster hit. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2020, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/1095 "2020-01-17T15:28:18Z")
2022 is not that long of a gap. Everybody else is jumping on the fantasy show/movie bandwagon now like the Witcher show. Amazon is doing a prequel for the Lord of the Rings. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2020, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/1096 "2020-01-17T16:51:23Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Ideally, HBO should have had follow-on series (prequels, sequels, whatever) ready to air within a year of the last Game of Thrones episode. Is 2022 too long? Will there still be interest then? Whether intentional or not, more distance from the abysmal end to the original series is probably better. Many times, particularly during the long waits between later seasons, I would re-watch the whole series (up to the coming season) over a couple weeks. I tried that again a few months back, but stopped after season 6 episode 2. I realize, now, that the characters then aren’t working an angle, cleverly manipulating their way toward or away from something but just really are that daft, even as I’m apparently supposed to believe they are brilliant either as thinkers, leaders, or tacticians because all the supporting characters around them say so, not because they will actually _do_ anything brilliant. Quite the opposite, really. It’s three seasons of a steam locomotive slowly coasting to a dead stop as the occupants of the cars—the actors—do their best to play like the train’s still going to make it to the station, when in fact the conductor and the engineer are a couple of idiots who forgot to put coal in the bunkers. All that time, from the end of season five at the latest, the show was on its last gasp, we just held out hope from something fresh around the corner. So really, I don’t have an appetite for the game of thrones I already have at this juncture, let alone whatever they have planned to offer up next. IMHO, the longer HBO gives viewers to let the aftertaste of season 8 fade, the better. Although even forever might not be enough. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2020, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/1097 "2020-01-17T17:44:20Z")
I think a break will do the brand more good than immediately launching a new show with the way the first one ended. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2020, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/1098 "2020-01-17T17:59:16Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > It’s three seasons of a steam locomotive slowly coasting to a dead stop as the occupants of the cars—the actors—do their best to play like the train’s still going to make it to the station, when in fact the conductor and the engineer are a couple of idiots who forgot to put coal in the bunkers. At least HBO has finally killed the chance that the show runners would get to do their idiotic take on the South winning the Civil War. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2020, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/1099 "2020-01-17T21:58:07Z")
How’s that petition to redo season 8 going? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2020, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208/1100 "2020-01-20T04:52:32Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > How’s that petition to redo season 8 going? 🙂 Haven’t heard much about it lately… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208.md?page=54) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valar-hiatus-the-game-of-thrones-offseason-thread/624208.md?page=56)