Normal dystopias aren’t good enough anymore. We have to invent counterfactual alt history uber dystopias now, because reality is so shit that’s the only way we can imagine it worse. And we love dystopias for some reason
dystopias allow the producers to show a clearly good revolutionary figure, while at the same time not celebrating any of the actual real-world revolutionary figures because "we have democracy" or some shit.
The directors/writers of the TV series Game of Thrones. After they ran out of book material they shat the bed so immensely that a pop culture phenomenon bigger than Star Wars suddenly dissapeared and nobody wants to talk about it.
Btw, they shat the bed ON PURPOSE BECAUSE THEY WERE TIRED AND WANTED TO FINISH THE SERIE QUICKLY TO THEN GET A STAR WARS TRILOGY
So I watched a like two hour YouTube video of some guy who fucking hates Benioff and Weiss presenting his long, bizarre theory that the show is bad because Benioff in particular is a sociopath whose father didn't love him. I know it sound crazy to watch that, but it's a bit like when the Chapos complain about Rod Dreher except instead of four to five deranged people it's just one guy, and unlike the chapos he clearly takes his subject matter very seriously. Now the guy who made that video clearly has a massive axe to grind (guy's name on YouTube is Dragon Demands), he always mentions how he's one of the admins for the Game of Thrones wiki, and makes some specious arguments throughout.
Best part of those videos is when he reads from Benioff's shitty novels (which, other than a writing credit on two major movies, were Benioff's only significant creative works before HBO made him the showrunner of their massively expensive soon-to-be flagship) where the main character is a misogynistic creep.
But I kinda agree with all his big points: Benioff's dad, an insanely rich investment banker, does not love his son (Dragon Demands couldn't prove this, I can't either, but look up Stephen Friedman and tell me if you think a man with his resumé is capable of loving anything other than money); all of Benioff's success in life is based on the fact that his father is a powerful man; HBO only gave Benioff the role of showrunner (something he was completely unqualified for) because of his father; Benioff only pursued GOT because he thought if it was successful he might finally win his father's approval; it didn't work.
Most significantly, Benioff and Weiss shot a pilot for GOT, which cost HBO 10 million dollars and failed because Benioff and Weiss had no idea how to run a show. But for some reason HBO didn't scrap a show that nobody believed in and had already been proven a failure and a black hole for money. Instead the CEO made Benioff and Weiss rework the scripts for the first season, and then let them go ahead and reshoot their first episode.
Either Benioff had some serious blackmail material, his father was secretly bankrolling the production, or Richard Plepper (the CEO of HBO at the time) was some sort of genius who had peered through time and knew that, against all odds, Game of Thrones would go on to be one of the biggest cultural phenomenons since Harry Potter.
Yes they are obviously competent at producing a book adaptation. They just don’t have a creative bone in their bodies when it comes to creating new content
Thing is, I'm not much of a Star Wars fan, so I'd rather they take their chances with DnD than produce more middling slop directed by likes of Ron Howard and the Godzilla guy.
Sorry for being a lib but I really want D&D from GoT to never ever receive a contract after what they did.
Shitting on D&D is what got me into r*ddit and that's how I met this community :heart-sickle:
D&D are busy making an even more racist version of America, cause fuck it why not.
Oh no what now?
they had planned to write a what if the confederacy had won, alt history for HBO
Normal dystopias aren’t good enough anymore. We have to invent counterfactual alt history uber dystopias now, because reality is so shit that’s the only way we can imagine it worse. And we love dystopias for some reason
dystopias allow the producers to show a clearly good revolutionary figure, while at the same time not celebrating any of the actual real-world revolutionary figures because "we have democracy" or some shit.
Good lord
I think it has been cancelled for good.
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that's cause hbo canceled the alt-confederacy idea
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Wait, who are D&D and what did they do?
The directors/writers of the TV series Game of Thrones. After they ran out of book material they shat the bed so immensely that a pop culture phenomenon bigger than Star Wars suddenly dissapeared and nobody wants to talk about it.
Btw, they shat the bed ON PURPOSE BECAUSE THEY WERE TIRED AND WANTED TO FINISH THE SERIE QUICKLY TO THEN GET A STAR WARS TRILOGY
Jesus, talk about failing up.
They didn't get the SW trilogy tho
Well, that's good. Although I just googled and apparently they're getting $200m from Netflix to do the Three Body Problem. Boo.
Yeah I can't wait for them to inject some good old American sinophobia into a great sci-fi story
They actually failed so hard they lost their Star Wars contract. Sometime s the universe works out
So I watched a like two hour YouTube video of some guy who fucking hates Benioff and Weiss presenting his long, bizarre theory that the show is bad because Benioff in particular is a sociopath whose father didn't love him. I know it sound crazy to watch that, but it's a bit like when the Chapos complain about Rod Dreher except instead of four to five deranged people it's just one guy, and unlike the chapos he clearly takes his subject matter very seriously. Now the guy who made that video clearly has a massive axe to grind (guy's name on YouTube is Dragon Demands), he always mentions how he's one of the admins for the Game of Thrones wiki, and makes some specious arguments throughout.
Best part of those videos is when he reads from Benioff's shitty novels (which, other than a writing credit on two major movies, were Benioff's only significant creative works before HBO made him the showrunner of their massively expensive soon-to-be flagship) where the main character is a misogynistic creep.
But I kinda agree with all his big points: Benioff's dad, an insanely rich investment banker, does not love his son (Dragon Demands couldn't prove this, I can't either, but look up Stephen Friedman and tell me if you think a man with his resumé is capable of loving anything other than money); all of Benioff's success in life is based on the fact that his father is a powerful man; HBO only gave Benioff the role of showrunner (something he was completely unqualified for) because of his father; Benioff only pursued GOT because he thought if it was successful he might finally win his father's approval; it didn't work.
Most significantly, Benioff and Weiss shot a pilot for GOT, which cost HBO 10 million dollars and failed because Benioff and Weiss had no idea how to run a show. But for some reason HBO didn't scrap a show that nobody believed in and had already been proven a failure and a black hole for money. Instead the CEO made Benioff and Weiss rework the scripts for the first season, and then let them go ahead and reshoot their first episode.
Either Benioff had some serious blackmail material, his father was secretly bankrolling the production, or Richard Plepper (the CEO of HBO at the time) was some sort of genius who had peered through time and knew that, against all odds, Game of Thrones would go on to be one of the biggest cultural phenomenons since Harry Potter.
D.B. Weiss and David Benioff
I dunno. DnD did a fine job with early seasons. Maybe if they had some good material to adapt it could work.
Yes they are obviously competent at producing a book adaptation. They just don’t have a creative bone in their bodies when it comes to creating new content
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I think one of them has published a novel someone on r/cth told me was good.
Yes, it could, but what sane mind thinks season 7 and 8 were a good idea?
Thing is, I'm not much of a Star Wars fan, so I'd rather they take their chances with DnD than produce more middling slop directed by likes of Ron Howard and the Godzilla guy.