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[–] j4k3@piefed.world 69 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I do not understand why fools rush these things and ruin good things. You're holding a gold mine and put it through a paper shredder for what?

[–] RustyShackleford@piefed.social 47 points 4 days ago

We live in the age of everything behind a subscription, the people without talent will always try to take a good thing and burn it for a buck. Trying to understand them is like trying to understand why people voted for a man in a diaper, trice.

[–] loutr@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

At the time rumor was that the Benioff and Weiss were already working on their next show (3-body problem?), and just wanted to get GoT out of the way.

[–] 2piradians@lemmy.world 33 points 4 days ago (1 children)

IIRC they were tied to something Star Wars related, which they subsequently lost. It was the tiniest consolation for GoT fans as it did nothing to un-ruin the show.

[–] CallMeButtLove@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I remember hearing that too. There was a rumor from the production staff that almost all the producers were talking about on set was their next project.

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 9 points 4 days ago

Because they wanted to work on Star Wars, but this was such a flop Disney pulled the deal

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 11 points 4 days ago

Yeah can't believe Martin is rushing out his books like that!

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They were bored and thought they would just take a piss all over it to get to their lucrative star wars deal.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

....HBO was? Weren't they, like, the bosses?

[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 3 points 3 days ago

HBO gave Dumb and Dumber an unlimited budget and unlimited seasons because the show was the biggest success they had ever had and Dumb and Dumber were like: nah, let's finish this shit and move on to star wars.

As a result of this action, star wars dropped Dumb and Dumber from their deal and their careers were destroyed. I have seen their names pop up in writing credits on a few projects since GoT ended, but it's never something that is mentioned or used to promote the movie or show they are working on. Hollywood knows to keep these losers' names out of the spotlight.

I cannot imagine the entitlement of these two, to have pretty much won the Hollywood game to the point that they had unlimited budget, unlimited seasons and episodes to continue making the most popular tv show in the world and they thought they were too good for it.

And everytime I heard people blame George for them running out of material I remind them that these two fucks skipped and ENTIRE BOOK in the ASOIAF series because they thought it was boring.