David and DB confirm GoT to be 8 seasons

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http://nerdist.com/game-of-thrones-creators-confirm-2-more-seasons-13-15-more-hours-of-story/

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“It’s two more seasons we’re talking about,” explained Benioff. “From pretty close to the beginning, we talked about doing this in 70-75 hours, and that’s what we’ll end up with. Call it 73 for now.”

“It’s not supposed to be an ongoing show, where every season it’s trying to figure out new story lines. We wanted it to be one giant story, without padding it out to add an extra 10 hours, or because people are still watching it. We wanted to something where, if people watched it end to end, it would make sense as one continuous story.”

"Without padding"

i.e., no character development or storytelling, just checking plot points off of a list and calling it a day.


 
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This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
Season 6 was shit. The pacing has just been awful.


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Season 6 was shit. The pacing has just been awful.

It's literally felt like it's structured as a list of deaths, battles, and movements that need to happen before the end of the season. The Dorne plot was the last vestige of political drama the show had left, and they completely eliminated it right out of the gate.

So it's been cool to see the major battles, but ASOIAF has never really been about kickass fight scenes.


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Season 6 was shit. The pacing has just been awful.

Are you saying that sam tarly only going from the Wall to Oldtown in the same time Baelish goes from the vale to the north, back to the vale and back to the north again doesn't make sense?


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Season 6 was shit. The pacing has just been awful.

Are you saying that sam tarly only going from the Wall to Oldtown in the same time Baelish goes from the vale to the north, back to the vale and back to the north again doesn't make sense?

Don't forget how it took him half of the season to walk across the street from his dad's house to the Citadel.


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Season 6 was shit. The pacing has just been awful.

Are you saying that sam tarly only going from the Wall to Oldtown in the same time Baelish goes from the vale to the north, back to the vale and back to the north again doesn't make sense?

Don't forget how it took him half of the season to walk across the street from his dad's house to the Citadel.

Or how varys crossed continents twice in one episode


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Season 6 was shit. The pacing has just been awful.

Are you saying that sam tarly only going from the Wall to Oldtown in the same time Baelish goes from the vale to the north, back to the vale and back to the north again doesn't make sense?
The scenes aren't shown completely chronologically, Sam could have made it to Oldtown well before the Battle of the Bastards. Especially considering his plot has no relation with anyone else's at the minute.
They only have so much time to tell the story, I'd rather they just let us deduce or ourselves that time passing isn't uniform across the storylines instead of having 3 seasons of Jon planning to attack Winterfell.


 
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Season 6 was shit. The pacing has just been awful.

Are you saying that sam tarly only going from the Wall to Oldtown in the same time Baelish goes from the vale to the north, back to the vale and back to the north again doesn't make sense?
The scenes aren't shown completely chronologically, Sam could have made it to Oldtown well before the Battle of the Bastards. Especially considering his plot has no relation with anyone else's at the minute.
They only have so much time to tell the story, I'd rather they just let us deduce or ourselves that time passing isn't uniform across the storylines instead of having 3 seasons of Jon planning to attack Winterfell.

There HAS to be a better way to portray it though. Usually with shows or movies that jump between months, even years they show what time they are at. But GoT is just one huge mess


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Season 6 was shit. The pacing has just been awful.

Are you saying that sam tarly only going from the Wall to Oldtown in the same time Baelish goes from the vale to the north, back to the vale and back to the north again doesn't make sense?
The scenes aren't shown completely chronologically, Sam could have made it to Oldtown well before the Battle of the Bastards. Especially considering his plot has no relation with anyone else's at the minute.
They only have so much time to tell the story, I'd rather they just let us deduce or ourselves that time passing isn't uniform across the storylines instead of having 3 seasons of Jon planning to attack Winterfell.

There HAS to be a better way to portray it though. Usually with shows or movies that jump between months, even years they show what time they are at. But GoT is just one huge mess
I don't think there's a show or movie with as many independent storylines as Game of Thrones that manages to do that in 10 episodes per season.
Even the books struggle to do this, GRRM split the books geographically instead of chronologically so the readers could read one part of the story, then read a different part of the story in the next book that happened simultaneously.


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It's already confirmed that the characters exist in separate timelines:
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"The timelines between the various storylines don’t necessarily line up within a given episode. For instance, the ‘Northern Tour’ Jon and Sansa embark on would probably take a couple weeks, but Arya’s storyline over the past few episodes only spans a few days. We realized a while ago that if we tied ourselves in knots trying to make all the ‘story days’ line up between all the characters the momentum would suffer."

The Verge has a pretty decent article about it.


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Last 2 episodes were the best ever. Noone gives a fuck about storytelling and character development, we want explosions, wars, and tits. Thats what the REAL viewers like me want.


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Eh, at least S6 was mildly entertaining in a normie sort of way even if it completely missed the mark of what the whole universe is all about. S5 was just laughably bad.

Idk why HBO are so adamant on rushing their biggest show. Not only would it make more business sense to extend the series as much as possible to incorporate everything, but for artistic reasons as well.

They've got a monumental universe to work with, it's a shame that they consider fleshing out plotlines as "padding".
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Whatever, it's entertaining television.

We've still got TWOW to enjoy when it comes out in 23 years.


 
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I find it difficult to complain about Season 6 when you compare it to that of Season 5. At least this season was somewhat entertaining.


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Idk why HBO are so adamant on rushing their biggest show. Not only would it make more business sense to extend the series as much as possible to incorporate everything, but for artistic reasons as well.
I wouldn't be shocked if D&D are getting tired of it.