The difference, that again, you unsurprisingly are unable to grasp, is that given 10 episodes in season 6 and 10 episodes in season 7, attempting the herculean task of vacuuming the beach surf party car in 5 minutes would have seemed like a noble attempt. You'd say to yourself, man, they had no chance at getting that car completely clean, but I really admire their effort...you gotta give them credit.twocoach wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2019 1:51 pm To tag onto your awful analogy, my point is that they were trying to vacuum out a car that was returning from 4 college males living at the beach to surf and party all summer. Three minutes, five minutes, twenty minutes of vacuuming, they were never going to get that car cleaned to where someone wouldn't still find sand after inspecting it. People complain about everything; it seems to be what we do in today's era.
There's no perfect way to replace a leader/ruler. Not in today's America and not in Westeros. All the choices have something that sucks about them. I was glad to see GoT not attempt to become Gotham, where the good guys comically always end up winning.
But for them to so brazenly think that they could vacuum away 3 months worth of debris in 3 minutes, when they could have had 5...well, that's not something to admire. That's just stupid.
People who read the books (not me) have been complaining from the beginning when things in the book got left out. That's a silly thing...a book has unlimited space, a show has...more or less, an allotment of time. You have to pare things down, you have to combine characters or storylines, and stick to the most important things. The show game of thrones built a fanbase for 6 years based around a 10 episode format, and then for the two most critical seasons, with more story than in any of the previous 6, and a hard ending, decided, fuck it, let's do it in about half that, and the show suffered from it.
I think there's a fundamental difference between complaining about a specific storyline not going the way you wanted it to go, and commenting that the quality of the show clearly dropping because they didn't give themselves the time required to accomplish what they wanted to. It's my understanding that the decision was completely because of the two show-runners, not some budget limitation or something else, it's not like HBO told them last minute they weren't going to be renewed and needed to wrap it up.
