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*UNMARKED SPOILERS ALL BOOKS* Game of Thrones |OT| - Season 7 Offseason Thread
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Recently put together a little GoT music video, I don't normally post in the spoiler thread but I thought you guys might appreciate it too.
https://vimeo.com/175184844
https://vimeo.com/175184844
Doesn't matter. If individual episodes with individual directors get nominated and awarded as such to acknowledge the contribution of that director, why wouldn't individual episodes with individual writers get nominated and awarded as such to acknowledge the contribution of that writer?
It if less about show format and more about recognizing individuals working on a show.
Cornballer
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PR from HBO. Confirms Summer 2017 start date, directors, and 7 episodes for S7:
HBO said:
Steelyuhas
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Probably only one director will do a single episode. Unless Alan Taylor was like, "guys give me four episodes, I want to shoot everyday for the next 9 months"...
Cornballer
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Cornballer
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- Via Watchers: New S6 blooper reel from Comic Con
Cornballer
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Game of Thrones panel is going on right now at Comic Con. Of interest off of Twitter:
Should be some full reports later once the panel is over.
WaffleTaco
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They should just have him direct the entire last season. Get the best writers available and whomever else. Everyone is going to want the remains of this cake. Spend the budget on making the final two seasons the best they can, and not just focus on crazy spectacles.
If they end up locking S8 at 6 episodes, just get him to do it all, lol.
Since when does Sansa have any intellect at all? Just the first quoted sentence shows she has the mind of a small child.
It also shows that she's pretty much a villain now. I used to really like Sansa too.
Well that quote doesn't bode well for next season... unnecessary, forced soap drama it feels like.
Well, Jon did get mutinied on, so not sure how well he ruled
Well, Jon did get mutinied on, so not sure how well he ruled
Steelyuhas
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The actors haven't received scripts yet, it's just Sophie giving her two cents, who doesn't write on the show.
This has happened for years with the actors in press, it's not new.
The first quote sounded like something she got from the script though:
Haven't seen the panel, so context could change that I suppose.
Should someone be looking into that?
Davos' actor, Jon's actor and D & D have been saying the same thing though
Jon vs Sansa will be an end game book thing, that's why they're forcing their way there in unconvincing fashion. Really it's a spoiler.
grandjedi6
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Sansa is Cersei JR. And like Cersei, she thinks she's way more competent than she is.
biosnake20
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From Reddit:
Tourney at Harrenhal confirmed
Tourney at Harrenhal confirmed
Admiral Woofington
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From Reddit:
Tourney at Harrenhal confirmed
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adamsappel
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What Sophie Turner is saying sounds like what a lot of actors are told. "This whole episode hinges on you. You're coming to save the day. That other guy, the one everyone thinks is the hero? Loser. Head up his ass. For this take, I want you to give him a look, like you know he fucked up, and he knows you know, but you're going to let it slide for now. Okay?"
Steelyuhas
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To clarify my view, I don't think there's nothing there. Littlefinger has no interest in Jon being in power, and he'll surely be an issue. Sansa also clearly harbored some hesitations to fully trust Jon and it's within reason to think she's a little salty that Jon gets all the credit.
That said, I do not think at all we are going down a "Sansa becomes a villain" route. There is an underlying through-line of the Starks the Lannisters families in the series about one family falling to fighting each other and the other that very likely wont. It's a product of their parents and their upbringing, and is presumingly one of the main reasons the Stark family will endure the series and the Lannister family will likely not be intact/already isn't.
That said, I do not think at all we are going down a "Sansa becomes a villain" route. There is an underlying through-line of the Starks the Lannisters families in the series about one family falling to fighting each other and the other that very likely wont. It's a product of their parents and their upbringing, and is presumingly one of the main reasons the Stark family will endure the series and the Lannister family will likely not be intact/already isn't.
She survived King's Landing and the Boltons, Jon didn't survive his own men.
This is honestly the most likely scenario.
Oldest Snake
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This Sansa vs Jon thing is a massive red herring, mark my words.
They're going to use it to give Sansa something to do in Winterfell when Jon goes off to fight the WWs, but it's just going to end with Littlefinger stretching himself too far and Sansa will put him down.
They're going to use it to give Sansa something to do in Winterfell when Jon goes off to fight the WWs, but it's just going to end with Littlefinger stretching himself too far and Sansa will put him down.
grandjedi6
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Reminder that Sophie is a troll who likes to mess with fans and the press
Just finished watching season 6. Man I'm so glad GRRM got shoved aside and we're now back in action. All this Robb Stark is the one, lol no Renly is the one, lol no Stannis is the one, lol no Jon Snow is the one lol no fuck you Ramsay Bolton is the one lololol, got really old. The last two / three seasons started feeling like bad filler, but finally shit started happening and the Targaryans are on their way. Also good on them that there is finally some girl power vindication, though it perhaps got a bit too on the nose at some point.
And is it me or did the production budget increase tenfold? If not their CGI team deserve all the prizes.
And is it me or did the production budget increase tenfold? If not their CGI team deserve all the prizes.
As far as the books are concerned, only Stannis and Dany have been "the one" in any meaningful sense. That's true in the show as well (though now Jon is "the one" post-resurrection). Ramsay, Robb, and Renly were never important beyond their immediate army.
WaffleTaco
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Eh this season is probably one of the best. Sure character arcs are gone, as in any meaningful good twist or story...however it is just spectacular regarding production values and epicness. If I had to rank the seasons it would probably be 4>1>6>3>2>5, so again it is miles better than 5.
Robb and Renly were also "fuck the choice we have, we'll just choose our own one"
I think this is the direction it's going in the books as well before it's resolved. Sansa x Jon, guys. Maybe even Sansa x Jon x Daenerys.
A recent Kit Harrington interview shows that what I was arguing all season is true: Jon Snow was just himself when he came back. And that's lame.
"And then I got the scripts, and actually, he comes back as himself, as the Jon that everyone knows. Which at first I found disappointing. But its more subtle than that. He has an insight into what lies beyond that very few people in his world do, and that no one in our world doeshe knows that theres no afterlife. Which does quietly drive who he is and what he wants to do."
So, yes, the showrunner did ignore what had happened with Beric earlier in the seasons because who cares about consistency when there are dragons?
"And then I got the scripts, and actually, he comes back as himself, as the Jon that everyone knows. Which at first I found disappointing. But its more subtle than that. He has an insight into what lies beyond that very few people in his world do, and that no one in our world doeshe knows that theres no afterlife. Which does quietly drive who he is and what he wants to do."
So, yes, the showrunner did ignore what had happened with Beric earlier in the seasons because who cares about consistency when there are dragons?
PHOENIXZERO
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Of course, Dan and Dave and their writers don't bother themselves with such things.
Will the Thrill
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The only thing, and I'm not saying they even thought about it this way, is that Beric was killed multiple times and brought back already. Jon only died once and got revived pretty quickly. Still kind of disappointing, Jon just got mopier for a little bit and now seems back to normal.
In regards to Jon's resurrection: as we've been finding out time and time again with D&D's adaptation of GoT, "what you see is what you probably get". If you're looking for things deeper than surface level that aren't explicitly told to you by the characters, then you're watching the wrong show.
How does he know there's no afterlife? Why wouldn't he think he just didn't pray to the right God? You were praying to trees Jon; a woman asked a different god to bring you back from the dead and he did. I would trust what she had to say about God and the afterlife.
All of the characters turned atheist feels so out of place, jammed in, and annoying. I say that as an atheist.
Davos should have immediately realized he was wrong when he saw Jon walk out of the room. Davos, Sansa, and Jon should all be Rhillor followers.
Then that should have meant that Jon was changed a little. He wasn't change. At all. The writing is by far the worst part of this show. It's the only thing on this show that isn't good, in fact. I can only imagine how much the animators, actors, costumers, set designers, etc must be annoyed by the hack writing team.
Yup! The Arya arguments are so hilarious in hindsight (she was stabbed because she was inexplicably an idiot!). Still, the show explicitly said that coming back to life changes a person. It's a failure of the writers to ignore previous precedents.
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