LOL - thanks for that!
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
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.
The Cast Remembers (a nice short GOT retrospective): The Cast Remembers | Game of Thrones: Season 8 (HBO) - YouTube
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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. 
Apparently the long watch prequel with Naomi Watts got canceled. They were as far along as having a pilot, it must have been dire.
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.
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.
Book and Season 1 begin in 298 AC.
Doesn’t AC mean “after conquest”?
The War for Aegon’s Conquest is from from 2 BC to 1 AC.
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.
HBO ordered a full season of GOT prequel , probably airs in 2022.
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.
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.
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.
I think a break will do the brand more good than immediately launching a new show with the way the first one ended.
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.
How’s that petition to redo season 8 going? 
Haven’t heard much about it lately…