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There was a season 5? Don't remember it

That would have been a shit ending. But you are right, it would have been much better than we got.

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.

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.

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

I feel your pain. Truly.

George and Pat Rothfuss changed my reading habits, now I'm not picking up series unless they're done. Plenty of great works out there, like The Last Kingdom or the Aubrey/Maturin series. Ditto for TV series, especially Netflix produced ones. Too many get the chop on a dip of viewership these days.

I half suspect George lost his will to write after seeing how dnd massacred the last 3 seasons. Who wouldn't? Especially if they were mangling his book notes. Now he's treating this series as a chore, and he'd rather do anything else.

Without having any of the background you have, I also couldn't finish season five, it just felt off. The spark was gone, and I wasn't hooked anymore.

Back when it first aired it was amazing, people went wild for it, and with reason: it's really that good. For the first 5 seasons. Season 6&7 become mixed bags because the writers tan out of original source materials and they sucked at writing themselves, and at season 8 theyr recieved a mouthwatering contract for star wars and just wanted to get rid of GoT, even though HBO wanted multiple seasons more.

So, they just write and produces a 6 episode piece of shit that was scandalously bad. Production was bad, writing was just amazingly bad.

Watch the first seven seasons, they're worth it!

You could watch it if you stop before the end, maybe through season 6, definitely before 8.

I still recommend the books though, which are still good despite the fact that we will never see the end written by the original author.

It's absolutely worth watching - still the best TV I ever watched. The problem is that the book Author is an absolutely amazing writer, and the show runners were not good writers, so when the show surpassed the books, it was obvious (this is essentially the last two seasons). The show runners also rushed the ending because they were told Disney had a Star wars trilogy waiting for them. GoT easily could have been another 3 seasons to have a proper ending

Not to disagree on the topic but “if you can’t finnish it, don’t start it” is absolutely horrible advice when its about a creative art like writing.

If i am not wrong there is a whole writing style about just starting without knowing yourself where its going to end.

I highly dislike capitalism but i can see that once you have enough material to sell some of it, even if incomplete as a series. Many people would take the opportunity. I don’t know the authors economic background but for a starving artist with high potential that first book sales could be the push required to finish a series.

I blame capitalism, both for putting artists in this position and for the disrespect of big media towards their own content quality. Its always the money must flow, at every cost!

If you have a problem with unfinished works, don't ingest them until they're finished. The artist doesn't owe you anything.

That's a wild take on writing lmao. If you're not sure the author will finish it, don't start reading it.

They were fucking it up well before they ran out of source material. See: the confected drama of bran and Jon almost meeting North of the wall

Sanderson would be god awful at completing it and has specifically said he wouldn't.

It's deceptively worded, because it kinda happened (at least according to Clarke).

From https://ew.com/tv/2019/05/19/game-thrones-finale-interview-emilia-clarke/

"What, what, what, WHAT!?" the actress recalls thinking. "Because it comes out of f—king nowhere. I'm flabbergasted. Absolutely never saw that coming."

"I cried," Clarke says. "And I went for a walk. I walked out of the house and took my keys and phone and walked back with blisters on my feet. I didn't come back for five hours. I'm like, 'How am I going to do this?'"

She never says she dislikes the script and makes it clear that she found the story surprising and emotional. Which is true, the story is surprising (not in a good way, but it is surprising) and for her character it is full of emotion.

It would be like walking out during a billion $ project that depends on you as a freelancer.
In a VERY small industry where everyone knows everyone, and there are thousands of applicants literally willing to suck dick to get hired.

It would also have penalties for breaking the contract which could be very high, plus if you tank a major production without good reason your career is probably over

They'd get sued most likely