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The Official Game of Thrones [A Song of Ice and Fire] Thread (includes spoilers)

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Jack Brickman said:
I actually read an article about how the main reason that Game of Thrones became the cultural phenomenon that it did is because it's a weekly show. Thus, when crazy shit goes down, people spent the entire week talking about it and questioning what will happen next. It's a water cooler show, and the weekly buzz ends up pressuring more people to watch it so they can take part in those discussions about the show.

And if you think about it, Netflix has had some hits, but nothing even close to the level of Game of Thrones. Like, Stranger Things is very popular, but it just doesn't have anywhere near the buzz that Thrones has.

That makes sense, too, as when a show like Stranger Things drops, everyone watches at a different pace, which makes it hard to talk about it. Game of Thrones, on the other hand, is the type of show most people watch live or shortly after, and so the next day everyone can talk about the same thing since they only had one episode to watch instead of a full season.
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I get it. But we waited almost 2 years for this final season. I'm just ready for some action
 
The wait is the only reason you get new people to tune in. They see the hype build each time. The other issue with releasing every episode at once is it kinda totally kills the point of cliffhangers, which can be overused, but when used well and scarcely actually help a story.


I'd also add it's financially beneficial for HBO.


A lotta people only subscribe to HBO for this one show. If they released them all at once....boom. That's like two months worth of subscription fees that they just lost by not dragging it out.
 
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Rich said:
A lotta people only subscribe to HBO for this one show. If they released them all at once....boom. That's like two months worth of subscription fees that they just lost by not dragging it out.
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Three months for seasons one through six, although granted probably not as many people were subscribing just for GoT during season one.
 
Interesting thing they aren't releasing the episode titles until after. I guess not to spoil things but I mean....they can't keep the leaks from flowing.
 
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Interesting thing they aren't releasing the episode titles until after. I guess not to spoil things but I mean....they can't keep the leaks from flowing.
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They didn't leak the episode name but they leaked the whole damn episode this week. :chuckle:
 
Thoughts:
  • Did Dany forget her dad was an asshole?
  • Nice to see Brienne save Jaime this time. Imagine something similar will happen in the books with Lady Stoneheart.
  • I have to think Arya ending up with the Faceless Men wasn't a coincidence. They gave her all the skills she'd need to be an asset in the Great War. Just too convenient.
  • "At least Cercei won't get to murder me." Well, Tyrion is probably fucked. Wonder if Bronn ends up killing him.
  • Pod apparently a badass now.
  • Brienne's probably dying to save Jaime, right?
  • For fuck's sake will someone just propose a marriage between Dany and Jon to one of them? Seems blatantly the best way to resolve all the issue between the North and Dany's group, as Jon would become king and then there'd be no issue with the North coming with him.
  • Pretty warm reception for Theon from Sansa. Thought that was a bit overboard.
  • "Is the big woman still here?" :chuckle:
  • So I guess Bran is the target.
  • GHOST SIGHTING!
  • Sam dropping bombs on Ed.
  • They should do a spinoff of Tormund's pre-GoT days. I'd watch the hell out of that.
  • I'd also watch a Beric & the Hound buddy comedy.
  • Hey, Gendry/Arya happened! Makes sense given the Robert/Lyanna thing.
  • And Brienne gets knighted. Feel like she's definitely not making it out of next week alive.
  • The fuck is with this Theon/Sansa stuff?
  • Grey Wind is ten different kinds of fucked.
  • Given that we haven't heard Bran's little monologue from the trailer, I wonder if he ends up saying that to the Night King. Feel like the obvious people for him to say that to were Jon or Jaime and the moment seems past for both.
That was pretty heavy on the fan service, but I enjoyed it more than last week's episode. I agree with Chris that the writing is pretty questionable here from a logical standpoint, but it's obvious they had to cut all kinds of corners to wrap this shit up in two seasons and we're seeing the fallout of that these past two years. High on spectacle, low on cohesion or logic.
 
Fucking yikes man.

About to cram a whole bunch of shit into 4 episodes.

Monumental time wasting episode.




On a side note, I literally hate the idea that what the Night King wants is just to wipe out Bran. That’s fucking horribly uncreative and seems like a major cop out to me.

Christ all mighty I have a feeling that these last 2 seasons will be looked back on as disastrous.
 
They’ve got six episodes left, seems pretty stupid to waste two of them on setup episodes. The majority of that stuff could’ve been put in last week.

Looks like shit finally gets rolling next week
 
Would have been nice if Brienne mentioned how Aerys was going to blow up King's Landing and kill half a million people when defending Jaime.
 
Still haven't seen the Night King. Wasn't in the last shot .Wasn't in the preview for next week.
 
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