game of Thrones was a huge success… right down to the creators, writers, and showrunners David Benioff AND DB Weiss he ran out of material from the book to use and began to put it into practice. I wasn’t a fan of the last two seasons of the show, but the last season is where he really went off the rails. They didn’t really know how to end it and it left a lot of fans disappointed. It is considered one of the worst television endings ever.
Benioff and Weiss have now weighed in on the backlash the finale received and also discuss abandoning the franchise. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Benioff said:
“You always hope that everyone likes what you do and it would have been great if 100% of people loved it, but that’s not the case. You can get so bogged down in public opinion that you spend your whole life Googling things and trying to find people whether they felt one way or the other.”
Weiss added:
“Even extremely positive feedback makes you feel weird and gnashing and nervous. There’s a druggy quality to the feedback, and as soon as we’ve gone cold – the last time I Googled it was in 2013 – the level of environmental stress in ours lives have decreased by about 50% from one day to the next.”
The two had previously admitted they didn’t know much about it game of Thrones, the world or the characters. They said they didn’t know why George R. R. Martin he trusted them with his life’s work.
They went on to admit that they have no experience or knowledge of what it takes to make a television show. They had no qualifications before they were hired and said the whole experience was an expensive film school and learning experience for them. They found themselves way in over their heads and the last two seasons have proven that they had no idea what to do.
It was also revealed that the plan was to downplay the fantasy elements to help expand the fan base to include “mothers, NFL players”. They also never really tried to summarize all the essential elements of the books, saying “No. We didn’t. The scope was too large. It was about the scenes we were trying to portray and the show was about power.
Like I said before, knowing this now, it’s crazy that the show was able to survive this long under the leadership of these guys. They faked it until they made it!
by Joey Paur
Source: Geek Tyrant
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