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rogueslayer452++ Welp, we just got confirmation from the writer's of Game of Thrones themselves how they are basically talentless hacks. I mean, we been knew for a long time, but the fact that they openly and proudly admitted to their incompetence is astounding. Definitely read through the whole thread completely because it just gets worse and worse. I'm not surprised, but it is rather shocking that they would be so blase in their answers and the fact that they even still have careers. It's unbelievable that anyone would want to work with them after what was revealed here.
++ In other news, it appears that Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy series may be in talks of getting an adaptation on STARZ.
I tried reading the first book, Kushiel's Dart, many years ago and I just couldn't get into it because the writing style was difficult for me to get through. But I do know that the series came highly recommended and many seemed to like it, and if it gets adapted into a television series it might translate a bit better for someone like me to understand. This, of course, depends on the right person who understands the source material to translate it from page to screen, as usual. Although I will say that my fancasting for Phèdre nó Delaunay was always Morena Baccarin, even though I know she's not the correct age especially now many years later. But still, that's how I always kind of envisioned her. And if this is to be on STARZ and we know how television casting works, they will most likely age up the character, or at least have an older actress portray her.
++ In other news, it appears that Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy series may be in talks of getting an adaptation on STARZ.
I tried reading the first book, Kushiel's Dart, many years ago and I just couldn't get into it because the writing style was difficult for me to get through. But I do know that the series came highly recommended and many seemed to like it, and if it gets adapted into a television series it might translate a bit better for someone like me to understand. This, of course, depends on the right person who understands the source material to translate it from page to screen, as usual. Although I will say that my fancasting for Phèdre nó Delaunay was always Morena Baccarin, even though I know she's not the correct age especially now many years later. But still, that's how I always kind of envisioned her. And if this is to be on STARZ and we know how television casting works, they will most likely age up the character, or at least have an older actress portray her.
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Date: 2019-11-04 09:19 pm (UTC)That's exactly what it was. It's interesting seeing the defense of them being like, "well if they're so bad why was the show incredibly successful", but that's the thing. The show was successful not because of them but because of everyone else who actually cared. A show can be successful while the showrunners/main writers are horrible, and GOT was a unique example of this.
Why did they even want to make it? Why did they rush the end? Why didn't they learn anything along the way?
These are all good questions. I know they rushed the ending because they wanted that Disney money for that Star Wars deal (which they have now stepped away from, making the rushing of the last season and their lack of handing it off to someone else pointless), but aside from that I think it just boils it down to: they just didn't care. They obviously weren't fans of the books, they seem entirely ungrateful for the opportunity that they were presented, didn't take it seriously, and their nonchalant answers exposing themselves as being incompetent hacks just proves the rumors that were circulating for years how unprofessional they were.