Maybe we should rename this thread to “The Song of Fire and Ice” between books thread.
Then once a year someone can post “Nope, still no Winds of Winter book.” 
We can combine it with the thread on when “The Last Dangerous Visions” is coming out.
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Brian
Everyone’s complaining about them doing a short season instead of 10 full episodes, but after seeing that I think we would have had to wait at least three years between seasons if they had done so. As they point out, they made the equivalent of six theatrical movies as it was.
Tomorrow I am traveling to Bolivia, coincidentally to the area where Che Guevara lived his last days before being captured and executed. I came across this quote, from his farewell letter to Fidel Castro.
I wonder if GRRM picked up the phrasing from Che.
Best moment: Kit Harrington didn’t read his script before the first read through. So you get to watch him find out that Jon kills Danaerys
It’s just a stunning moment, well worth watching.
Where is this stuff coming from? Not a single episode of season 6 was of theatrical length. They claimed they would be, but they weren’t. Even at the numbers I put up here, I’m pretty sure not a single one clocked 1:20 if you don’t count the titles and previously on.
These are the official numbers. I know I turned off Episode 2 at 1:19, and it had a previously on at the start which is likely included.
1 54
2 58
3 1:22
4 1:18
5 1:20
6 1:20
A minimum for me a feature length is 1 hour and 30 minutes. I’d say most of the 1:20 ish ones had 1:16 in actual content (removing previously on titles).
So can we put this to bed, please? They were extended episodes. Not mini movies. The hype train for GOT sold us. It wasn’t true.
Tons of movies clock in at under 90 minutes, and even though the “previously on” bits can eat up several minutes, feature credits are typically longer than the previously on and final credits combined. The show title sequence is probably equivalent to feature opening credits.
80 minutes is short for a feature, agreed, but only by around 5 minutes. 85 minutes including credits isn’t unusual.
Just because there are some which are under 90 minutes, they are by far untypical of anything of feature length.
If it’s a feature, and its less than 1:30, then fair enough.
If it’s NOT a feature, but pretending to be like one, because of the length, when its not actually what is typically and normally feature length, then it’s not feature length…
They aren’t feature length, was the point. None of them were. Some seemed to trick me because there was a 15 minute making on stuck on the end, to seem like it was, but it was all in the end not a feature length, but an extended episode for 4 of the 6 episodes.
In the end, it is pretty representative of Game Of Thrones: promises something, which turns out to be a load of bollocks…
That’s fair enough, but again, you can’t discount the previously on, title sequence, and ending credits for the show length but then count the opening titles / credits and closing credits for a feature film, which typically total around 10 minutes.
A typical 90-minute feature only has 80 minutes of actual movie, so when you say “1:16 in actual content (removing previously on titles)” you’re comparing apples to oranges. In reality an episode with 76 minutes of content is only 4 minutes shorter than the typical content of a 90-minute feature. Criticizing this 4-minute shortfall feels like looking for something to complain about.
And during this entire exchange of ours, I keep hearing Maeby Fünke reading a negative review of her movie that includes “it’s too long” and her saying out loud “It was 72 minutes, including credits!”
I take it the redo season 8 petition did not work?
You mean DJ Hodor.
Do I?: Urban Dictionary: MC
Better dialogue than season 8.
Yes. An MC would be in the mic. Probably rapping. Which is what your link says. Hodor is DJing.
I stand corrected… and neither DJing or MCing.
Your favorite lines from the TV show?: https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=876821
Huh? He’s clearly DJing.
Is there a reason you’re being so difficult about this?