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.
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.
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
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.
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
I think one of them has published a novel someone on r/cth told me was good.
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.
It can still get worse. They can still let Zack Snyder make a Star War, and they absolutely will at some point, because hellworld.
Honestly, that would be fucking dope for how awful it would hopefully turn out.
two and a half hours of edgy, hard-assed teen yoda saying "already dead they are"
Also, Yoda would be the exact same character as Palpatine.
Also this but with marvel movies (I love Thor 3 tho, I wont complain if people give money to Taika Waititi)
Have you watched the Mandalorian? The last episode of the first season is directed by and stars Taika Waititi (he voices a droid anyway). Though you'll probably need the rest of the season for context.
Hu I had no Idea it was directed by him, it was a good season finale. So far the show has been the new star wars thing that I like the most
I did a double take when you called it Thor 3 because I had genuinely forgotten there was a second Thor movie. They really saved the character after how dull the first two were.
I didnt see the first 2 before seeing it. I needed to kill a few hours and I liked the director. Didnt even felt lost or that I missed something, maybe some parts would have had more weight if I knew the context but I dont regret my decision of never seeing the first 2
Yeah they are mostly irrelevant. There are a few interesting details in the first movie about why Thor came to Earth and why Loki was a villain, but all the movies are designed to be watched by people who've never seen a Marvel movie before anyway.
Yes but also I am a Star Wars fan since I was a kid, and I love some of the shit they are doing with Mandolorian and Rogue One is one of the best Star Wars movies aside the OT.
Some of them like Whitaker are in the animated series a lot. Either Clone Wars or Rebels. So that was more of him “coming to life” but I agree. It does cheapen some of the character building since you know they are doomed.
But that Vader scene? I’m chubbing thinking about it
I feel you. By that some token though, I feel like the Mandalorian protects its characters too much. There isn't a lot of emotional weight being placed. It's like playing an RPG on easy.
i mean it worked out hilariously for The Last Jedi
rian got a fat fuckin paycheck, and made a genuinely good time while shitting all over the series and JJ Abrams
dude not only got yoda in his movie but he also got yoda to hop into his next non-star wars movie
Clearly not because in the next one they put a hyperdrive on a GCW era TIE/LN and acted like nobody would notice.
I am kind of excited for this new Alien series they announced. Noah Hawley (Fargo, Legion) is doing it. I'm also just kind of a sucker for that universe, but it's supposed to take place on Earth. Given the tone of that series and Hawley's work I expect it to have some anti-capitalist themes to it.
Star Wars is already creativity bankrupt. It's a very, very small IP that you have limited creativity with. The entire galaxy revolves around a dysfunctional family, a few of their friends and the drama around them.
Disney should've just stuck to video games, since that was the best thing we got out of Star Wars since the 90s with how bad the prequels were. Star Wars was already dead from those awful movies.
