Game of Thrones, *** Spoilers *** (and discussion) Options

[mALX]

In case anyone doesn't mind spoilers:

Game of Thrones leaks for season 7:


https://www.reddit.com/r/freefolk/comments/...awayforthelads/

[hazmick]

I'm actually quite impressed that they've managed to keep the visual effects looking more or less consistent with previous seasons, despite a greatly reduced budget. They have a lot to cram into fewer episodes, so they're really hammering the pacing. It's kind of hit and miss as to whether it works or not.

I think the meeting between the Stark kids was done that way to show how distant they've become. Arya isn't a little girl who's happy to see her sister - she's been trained as an assassin, experienced a ton of bad times, and killed dozens of people. Her meeting with Jon will be the one that should be emotional, since she was closest to him as far as the Starks go.

[mALX]

I'm actually quite impressed that they've managed to keep the visual effects looking more or less consistent with previous seasons, despite a greatly reduced budget. They have a lot to cram into fewer episodes, so they're really hammering the pacing. It's kind of hit and miss as to whether it works or not.

I think the meeting between the Stark kids was done that way to show how distant they've become. Arya isn't a little girl who's happy to see her sister - she's been trained as an assassin, experienced a ton of bad times, and killed dozens of people. Her meeting with Jon will be the one that should be emotional, since she was closest to him as far as the Starks go.

I am having trouble understanding why they are having to work on a reduced budget; it makes no sense when the show is one of the most successful out there. Who reduced their budget, and why?

And they don't HAVE to force an end to the show in two seasons; they are choosing to. It is a successful show, if there is that much content remaining = why not extend it? And why are they giving us such short episodes and shortened seasons instead of the full episodes and seasons they gave us in the past?

So if they are cramming them, it is to save on cost and meet a deadline that none of us (fans of the show) really want them to meet. Cutting the quality of the show to ensure they keep making millions in profit is just going to harm the fanbase that is supporting their profit.

** not to mention that while they cut our quality of viewing; they managed to blow a wad on cameos of stars to "surprise a member of the cast on her Birthday" (while making another disjointed scene that did nothing to further the story).

That scene would have been fine and acceptable if it wasn't taking up room in an already crammed two seasons that they have set as their deadline ending of the show (seasons which are shorter than any previous seasons and with shorter episodes).

I'll use Breaking Bad as an example = we knew when we were reaching the last two seasons of that show, but they never once stinted on giving us the best possible performances/scenes; never crammed it up into disjointed scenes thrown at us in compressed episodes. It continued to be a chronologically occurring story that was riveting - it even got better as the last seasons played out; not cheapened.

I can't imagine any reason HBO would cut the budget of one of the highest watched shows of this decade.

[hazmick]

I am having trouble understanding why they are having to work on a reduced budget; it makes no sense when the show is one of the most successful out there. Who reduced their budget, and why?

I can't imagine any reason HBO would cut the budget of one of the highest watched shows of this decade.

/snip

I don't know the specifics, it's just what I've heard.

I imagine it's more about budget allocation than anything else. The amount of scenes with dragons, whitewalkers and other cgi stuff will be increasing exponentially from previous seasons and that will be a huge chunk of money they need to remove from other scenes. The popularity of the show might also work against it, since the actors that were previously (more or less) unknown are now big stars with expensive contracts (some of the actors are on at least $1 million per episode). It's also likely that they're pooling the budget for a big finale.

HBO knows by now that people will continue to pay to watch whatever they churn out. They could have an entire episode that's just a still image of Emilia Clarke on the screen for 50 minutes and it'd still get millions of viewers.

[ghastley]

They could have an entire episode that's just a still image of parts of Emilia Clarke on the screen for 50 minutes and it'd still get millions of viewers.

FTFY