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HBO submits Game of Thrones finale for Emmy
As reported by CBR, the network has even gone ahead and submitted the divisive series finale "The Iron Throne" for consideration for the Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series Emmy. Showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss are the credited writers on that particular episode.
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Spatula said:
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HBO submits Game of Thrones finale for Emmy
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Publicity stunt to draw attention away from the controversy and to later use the ridiculous marketing term of "Emmy Award nominated".
But this is amazingly blatant and pathetic.

I just hope that no matter how much farts reviewers huff and how much they get paid, that at the end of the day, viewer ratings go through the basement with these last few episodes.
 
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I just finished reading the Hedge Knight
Was Dunk really knighted by his master or did he just bluff his way through the tourney? Either way, he's more chivalrous than most knights.

Also, did I just notice a pattern of Sansa's potential suitors?
1. Lyonel Baratheon (Joffrey Baratheon)
2. Leo Tyrell (Willas Tyrell)
3. Tybolt Lannister (Tyrion Lannister)
4. Humfrey Hardyng (Harry Hardyng)
5. Valarr Targaryen (FAegon?)
 
ICameToplaY said:
I just finished reading the Hedge Knight
Was Dunk really knighted by his master or did he just bluff his way through the tourney? Either way, he's more chivalrous than most knights.

Also, did I just notice a pattern of Sansa's potential suitors?
1. Lyonel Baratheon (Joffrey Baratheon)
2. Leo Tyrell (Willas Tyrell)
3. Tybolt Lannister (Tyrion Lannister)
4. Humfrey Hardyng (Harry Hardyng)
5. Valarr Targaryen (FAegon?)
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Yeah, that parallel's been discussed before. I would very much enjoy seeing Littlefinger and Varys spar with each other again as Littlefinger tries to use Sansa to woo fAegon away from Arianne.

Here's a question - now that you're reading the Dunk and Egg novellas, who in the main book series do you believe are Dunk's descendants? GRRM has confirmed 3 of them are in the books.
 
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Absolutego said:
Yeah, that parallel's been discussed before. I would very much enjoy seeing Littlefinger and Varys spar with each other again as Littlefinger tries to use Sansa to woo fAegon away from Arianne.

Here's a question - now that you're reading the Dunk and Egg novellas, who in the main book series do you believe are Dunk's descendants? GRRM has confirmed 3 of them are in the books.
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I think: Brienne of Tarth, Hodor, and the Clegane brothers.
 
You got two out of the three I did. Brienne, Hodor, and Small Paul are my guesses. The trick is GRRM constantly refers to Dunk as "thick as a castle wall" in the novellas, and those three characters are all described that way at one point or another in the books.
 
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Absolutego said:
You got two out of the three I did. Brienne, Hodor, and Small Paul are my guesses. The trick is GRRM constantly refers to Dunk as "thick as a castle wall" in the novellas, and those three characters are all described that way at one point or another in the books.
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I do remember Jaime saying that Brienne is “as thick as a castle wall” in ASOS. So I guess that’s a hint.

Oh yeah! Small Paul the simpleton in the Night’s Watch - I kinda forget about him.
 
Lena Headey: ‘I wanted a better death for Cersei’

“No, listen,” she says, “I invested as a viewer and I have my favourite characters. And I’ve got a few of my own gripes. But I haven’t sat down drunkly with David [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss] yet.”


Benioff and Weiss are the two showrunners who adapted George RR Martin’s books and made one of the world’s most popular TV series.


What will she say when she has that drink?


“I will say I wanted a better death.”


In the penultimate episode Cersei was crushed by falling masonry along with her brother-lover Jaime (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau). It was an underwhelming end, to put it politely.


“Obviously you dream of your death,” she says. “You could go in any way on that show. So I was kind of gutted. But I just think they couldn’t have pleased everyone. No matter what they did, I think there was going to be some big comedown from the climb.”
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The actors didn't deserve this.
 
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Filming a battle scene completely in the dark: Totally awesome!
Repeating the same footage of characters being overwhelmed by zombies for 90 minutes: Gripping action!
Having a character come out from nowhere with no build up to end the battle with a single blow: Expectations, subverted!
An epic battle between Nymeria's wolf pack and Zombie Drogon: BOOOOOOORRRRRIIINNNNNGGGGGG!!!!!!!

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'Game Of Thrones' writers cut battle with 50 direwolves from season 8

Season eight of Game Of Thrones was meant to feature a battle involving 50 direwolves, it has been revealed
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Season eight of Game Of Thrones was meant to feature a battle involving 50 direwolves, it has been revealed.

The dropped scene was set to feature in ‘The Long Night’, the third episode in the final series of the HBO show.

Director Miguel Sapochnik has explained that the creatures were intended to gather to attack the Night King’s dragon, but the idea was scrapped because he thought it would be boring to watch.

“There were many things that happened, that people would have been so happy to have happen,” he told the Filmmaker Toolkit podcast. “Attack of direwolves and crazy stuff. At some point you’re like, ’50 direwolves attacking an undead dragon does not a good movie make.’”

He added that he was cautious about including the scene because it could have become “a remix of every battle we’ve done.”
 
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Stab You in the Back said:
Filming a battle scene completely in the dark: Totally awesome!
Repeating the same footage of characters being overwhelmed by zombies for 90 minutes: Gripping action!
Having a character come out from nowhere with no build up to end the battle with a single blow: Expectations, subverted!
An epic battle between Nymeria's wolf pack and Zombie Drogon: BOOOOOOORRRRRIIINNNNNGGGGGG!!!!!!!

www.nme.com

'Game Of Thrones' writers cut battle with 50 direwolves from season 8

Season eight of Game Of Thrones was meant to feature a battle involving 50 direwolves, it has been revealed
www.nme.com www.nme.com


Season eight of Game Of Thrones was meant to feature a battle involving 50 direwolves, it has been revealed.

The dropped scene was set to feature in ‘The Long Night’, the third episode in the final series of the HBO show.

Director Miguel Sapochnik has explained that the creatures were intended to gather to attack the Night King’s dragon, but the idea was scrapped because he thought it would be boring to watch.

“There were many things that happened, that people would have been so happy to have happen,” he told the Filmmaker Toolkit podcast. “Attack of direwolves and crazy stuff. At some point you’re like, ’50 direwolves attacking an undead dragon does not a good movie make.’”

He added that he was cautious about including the scene because it could have become “a remix of every battle we’ve done.”
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They just like to rub salt into the wounds, don't they?
Teasing us with stuff that would have been absolutely amazing, changed some absolutely abhorrent aspects of the show and maybe laid a foundation for better things... and they say "Yeah, we didn't do this awesome thing, cause we thought it was boring".

All they do is highlight how out of touch they are. If they said "Look, we didn't have the budget", I would still call shenanigans, since HBO should, by all accounts, have just handed them a blank cheque, but I would have an easier time accepting that over this vulgar display of incompetence.
 
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Over 90 million for the budget and we got a battle that we can't see half the time, coffee cups and water bottles being left on set, a drunk staring out a window, an OCD dwarf moving chairs, and marvel-tier humor
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I would love to know whether the actors left water bottles and cups visible (or at least on set) on purpose, since they were pissed at the showrunners.
Wouldn't put it past a passionate actor to do this kind of thing and if I was in that position, I'd certainly go "Fuck this shit, if they don't care about this show's quality, why should I?" and just leave my bottle somewhere on set.
I had a bad feeling when literally the first line of dialogue of the season was a lame dickjoke that made neither any kind of sense for Tyrion to make towards his friend, nor was it anywhere near the wit and cleverness of what Tyrion would usually say.

I'm still baffled how they fucked it all up so hard. Their ego must be the size of the known universe if they thought they'd get away with this shit.
Haven't even watched past episode 3, only saw a few scenes here and there on youtube, but imagine my shock when I saw Jaime Lannister go "I never cared about the common folk". His redemption arc was one of the most interesting and touching things in the entire show. He literally makes a heelturn out of nowhere, just so the writers can jack off to the tune of "Didn't expect that, did ya?".
This makes me loathe these writers with a passion.

 
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