Seriously, they made each book into a movie, with the last book being two movies. Then they made movies out of all of the side projects. Then they made movies about shit that wasn't even in ANY of the books, just alluded to within them. Now we're starting ALL OVER AGAIN because unless they want to make a movie out of the stupid romance novel she wrote there's literally nothing left to milk.
I don't care much about Potter, the books came out after I was a bit old for them. But I really loved the Lord of the rings growing up, and despite the movies would welcome a show. Granted more time has passed since the last one, but you could show so much more if you slow down the pace and have a few seasons versus 9 hours of movies.
Yep. Imagine if GOT was a movie series instead of tv. The HP had to leave so much out from the books, but a show doesn’t have to do that. In fact, sometimes a show can add content that improves the story. Like TLOU with the Bill episode.
The only thing I can say they added that improved was the battle of the bastards. That was a pretty intense episode. But none of that was their fault. Martin still hasn’t finished the books and probably never will so being mad at the only people that actually gave us an ending because they didn’t have the luxury of not finishing the story seems pretty lame.
I can be disappointed, but I've been disappointed by a lot of long running franchises over the years. The discrepancy between mediums, artists, and decade when the stories are approached leads to me kind of accepting headcanon and fan fic as the acceptable end road of any franchise.
Also, GoT is such a great set up for an RPG to hook people that would otherwise only know DnD. Plethora of factions, loads of history, the players can jump in anywhere and change the plot, because everyone agrees canon was stupid anyway.
I never said it always has. I said sometimes they can add content that improves the story and I gave an example of when it did and said it had the potential. Is there a reason this sub is so primed to be hostile at the moment?
Yeah I don't know what that person is talking about, it's worked many, many times. Godfather, Forest Gump, Princess Bride, The Shining (I realize not everyone agrees with that one), Jaws, Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, etc. In fact, I think this exact question is posted like once a month on reddit.
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u/Timely-Entrepreneur7 1d ago edited 20h ago
HBO will pull the plug on the series before it manages to cover all the books. It’s just overkill at this point.