HBO: Game of Thrones

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House Glover. Danny Glover? No?! Tough crowd around these parts!

Man I'm kinda bummed out though realizing we are already almost finished with season six. It doesn't feel like its been six years! And I'm hearing rumors the final two seasons will be short - like 7 episodes next season and just six for the final season. It's coming to an end a lot faster than I realized :( . I really hope they make a Dunk and Egg show after, I'm not ready for the GoT universe to end on HBO.
 
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House Glover. Danny Glover? No?! Tough crowd around these parts!

Man I'm kinda bummed out though realizing we are already almost finished with season six. It doesn't feel like its been six years! And I'm hearing rumors the final two seasons will be short - like 7 episodes next season and just six for the final season. It's coming to an end a lot faster than I realized :( . I really hope they make a Dunk and Egg show after, I'm not ready for the GoT universe to end on HBO.


They should do it now. They could use Bran's flash backs to fill a whole season. Seasons 7 and 8 in their entirety could be flashbacks to Dunk and Egg, Robert's Rebellion, shit even Aegon's conquest or the Andal invasions.

There is so much material in this universe I agree it's a waste that the show would end so soon.
 

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It's not fan service but it's certainly intentional misdirection which along with cliff hangers are lazy and cheap tricks that should be relegated to soap operas.
Well that's how it was in the books. It was kind of like "The gods aren't finished with him yet" type of a thing. There's not a bunch of game of thrones writers sitting around making this Cleganebowl stuff up just to please fans is what my main point was
 
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Well that's how it was in the books. It was kind of like "The gods aren't finished with him yet" type of a thing. There's not a bunch of game of thrones writers sitting around making this Cleganebowl stuff up just to please fans is what my main point was
I agree here.

I also wonder how much of this shit we would all figure out on our own if not for the internet discussions, social media, etc. Most of these theories have been going on for years among book readers, which obviously spread massively once the show came out and now there is countless material dedicated to theories, some become popular and some are simply fact (GRRM wrote all the clues so it's only natural people would put the pieces together). I guess what I'm saying is, how much of this shit would be obvious to show watchers if there was no internet? How many show watchers would figure R+L=J for example? Hardly any, I'm guessing. Cleganebowl? Even less (until yesterday).
 
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'Hardhome' Director Miguel Sapochnik is directing the final 2 episodes of Season 6.

"The gods aren't finished with him yet" type of a thing. There's not a bunch of game of thrones writers sitting around making this Cleganebowl stuff up just to please fans is what my main point was




 
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Because the show wouldn't be suspenseful or engaging without purposefully misdirecting the audience or using the end of an episode to cut a story line off?

The writers are/should be better than that.
Pretty much every drama series in the history of drama series does that dude...this isnt anything out of the ordinary. Hell, Breaking Bad did it.
 
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Well that's how it was in the books. It was kind of like "The gods aren't finished with him yet" type of a thing. There's not a bunch of game of thrones writers sitting around making this Cleganebowl stuff up just to please fans is what my main point was
Yeah I think we are talking about different things. I am not talking about Cleganbowl (which I am totally fine with) I am talking about the shows more recent progression towards cliffhanger and misdirection.

The "in the books" equivalent would something like GRRM writing "Illyn Payne's sword was lifted high into the sky and above Ned's head. The end. Tune in next book to read whether Ned's head gets chopped off or whether Illyn has a last second change of heart"

An episode should never be ended like that, it is a cheap way to create suspense. Let the story create the suspense not the timing of the information.