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ScoobyMaroon Mar 27, 2026 +332

Just deliver me like 13 seasons of Dunk and Egg to get us all the way to Summerhall and I'm happy.

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dragunityag Mar 27, 2026 +75

Gonna need George to start writing then. But yeah dunk and egg is probably the best series to go forward with no source material since the story is something is fairly standard.

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ScoobyMaroon Mar 27, 2026 +34

I would love for George to write, obviously, but if he just wants to work closely with the production and they are able to help him bring the ideas in his head to life that he is having a hard time getting on the page I'm okay with that.

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djm19 Mar 27, 2026 +9

I’d rather George write the novelas than become a glorified head writer on a show. Or even better stop distracting himself with this stuff entirely.

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ScoobyMaroon Mar 27, 2026 +3

We all would but let's be realistic.

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Cowgirl_Taint Mar 27, 2026 +15

For both of his previous shows he eventually blew up at production and all talks broke down. Dunkin Eggnuts is doing well. But it is just a matter of time until he gets angry at a casting or a directorial choice and insists that His Vision is completely ruined... likely on his blog yet again.

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HouseOfTheDaemon Mar 27, 2026 +27

I mean, for GoT he partially carries the blame for dropping D&D in the deep end with the promise of source material to adapt that never arrived. If he wrote the final books D&D might have delivered the greatest television show ever made for all we know. Of course, he did supposedly provide them with multiple outlines for a 13 season show and a trimmed down 11 season show (I think) which HBO were happy to do, and D&D refused so….yeah, they carry blame, and I’m sure someone else could’ve written a better S8 even with where all the pieces were at the end of S7. It is however somewhat understandable that D&D would be extremely stressed and want to rush out of the shitty situation GRRM left them in by ending the show early. With HotD, he is essentially entirely correct. The creators savaged his fully completed source material for no discernible reason. So overall he’s about 75% correct in all this drama.

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Winnes0ta Mar 27, 2026 +7

The entire cast of GOT would have absolutely opposed 11 seasons too, it’s not like everyone wanted to do it forever and evil D&D wouldn’t allow it. Pretty much everyone involved was ready to be done.

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ScoobyMaroon Mar 27, 2026 +6

I'm still willing to see HotD through before deciding how much of a success or failure it is. Fire and Blood is a tricky one. I'm not a "the adaptation should strive to be as much like the source as possible" kind of guy. Knight of the Seven Kingdoms made a bunch of smart changes and we all liked them because they are good. Game of Thrones made a lot of smart changes and additions and we all liked them until they were bad. Season 2 of House of the Dragon was definitely not the finest season of television. Spent a lot of time spinning it's wheels and then didn't even get to end on it's terms. I think people would be a lot more charitable to it if we got the climactic battle it was working toward and/or we didn't have to wait multiple years between seasons.

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HouseOfTheDaemon Mar 27, 2026 +13

I’m not a diehard book purist either but I think that basically all the changes made to HotD S2 worsened the material. In S1 changes like expanding Viserys were obviously good. KotSK is making lots of positive changes and expansions, though I have critiques of a few I am generally minded to say it was brilliant overall and one of the strongest seasons out of all the GRRM shows. But there was no need to change blood and cheese? Randomly spoil the godseye battle? Have Ameond kamikaze into battle to kill the king? Daemon playing resident evil for a whole season? Something went wrooooong with the vision for the season and I don’t understand why the creators did it.

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Accomplished-City484 Mar 28, 2026 +2

lol 13 seasons? They ran out of source material in season 5, absolute fuckin insanity, you lot hated what they did do, if they had tried to drag it out for an extra 5 seasons it would’ve gotten so bad the show would’ve been canceled and never had an ending. Plus the entire cast and crew were completely burnt out just getting to season 8. George only wanted that because he’s a greedy pig and doesn’t give a f*** about anyone but himself

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Open_Seeker Mar 27, 2026 +1

No, even if you keep all the plot points, there was 1000 different ways to film that ending and main story beats. Granted GRRM is a whole other topic but they started making bad decisions even into books 4/5's source material.

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LeBonLapin Mar 27, 2026 +6

I mean - he was sort of right both times though.

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Mookies_Bett Mar 27, 2026 -3

I don't know if I agree with that. At least for Game of thrones, the ending of the show is exactly what he was planning for the ending of the books as well. The execution was bad because they rushed it, but his vision wasn't changed. If people didn't like it, him being involved wouldn't have helped more without more episodes to flesh it out.

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IrNinjaBob Mar 27, 2026 +1

Lmao no it wasn’t. What sort of claim is this. There are very specific story beats that will be the same. Things like Dany burning down Kings Landing, Jon killing Dany, Bran being King. But to say even those things will be the same in the books is laughable. Everything about how we are going to be getting from point C to point Z is entirely different. It wasn’t just “bad because rushed”. For all intents and purposes, the show covers the first 50a% of the book story, then comes up with its own conclusion which includes some of Martin’s ideas as the endgame. That is explicitly the production blowing up when they decided to do the split. Now don’t get me wrong. I personally place 90% of the blame of that on Martin himself. He’s the one that started the production without having these conclusions himself. But it is laughable to act like the show ending is Martin’s ending simply because things like “King Bran” will be consistent between the two.

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reachisown Mar 27, 2026 +2

This is a gross gross misunderstanding of what they voluntarily cut from the books that was integral to the plot.

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MattSR30 Mar 27, 2026

Sorry, you think a show that… * Completely cut out Aegon * Axed the Vale, Reach, and Dorne plots * Killed a claimant to the throne offscreen * Turned Eldritch horror Euron into a d***-joke machine * Removed the Golden Company and Iron Fleet plots * Betrayed Jaime’s character arc * Gave one of (likely) Jon’s climactic moments to Arya * And turned the battle against the Others into a single night …is “exactly what he was planning for the ending of the books as well”?

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reachisown Mar 27, 2026 +2

Wasn't he right though and HOTD was kind of bad.

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Magneto88 Mar 28, 2026 +1

He didn’t blow up at GOT at all. Indeed he’s been very conscious of not criticising the last season at all.

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Hollow_Rant Mar 28, 2026 +1

>since the story is something is fairly standard. You denigrate the lack of epic structure and that's a clot in your ear!

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Phazon2000 Mar 27, 2026 +1

Yeah it’s all about the characters rather than the plot. Although the tourney twists and turns of the first book are fantastic and all the little pieces click nicely. Once they’re out there on their adventures you can weave together any story you like and make it half decent. What will end up happening is the details of the world will start to disappear. There are so many moments in the first scene that have made me wonder why they included something (out of curiosity) and then saying to myself “I bet that was in the original story” lo and behold those small world-building details are ripped straight from the story. Something straight-to-TV screenplays almost never include. So odd story beats like having a castle with scratched out coat of arms because it’s changed ownership even if it’s not part of the plotline wouldn’t be there to enrich the world but it would be if they ripped it from the book. So the only things on screen would be what’s needed to move the plot along. Or he’ll look a dunk’s flashback in flea bottom. They’d have jut written a scene with the stealing at the start but omitted the battle because it’d be confusing - people would’ve wondering who was fighting and what for? It’s not really needed and could be explained another way but GRRM’s lore is backing it - they know at some point they’ll need to address the Blackfyre rebellions (season 3 maybe?) so on rewatches it’ll make more sense when they hear the name “Blackfyre” Try that sort of setup without George in later seasons filling the gaps? It’ll be empty.

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Drakengard Mar 27, 2026 +6

> all the way to Summerhall and I'm happy. Are you really going to be happy after Summerhall though?

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IrNinjaBob Mar 27, 2026 +4

If we got a full 12 well crafted stories that went all the way up to Summerhall and then covered it properly, yes. Very much yes.

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Additional_Week_3980 Mar 27, 2026 +1

I will as for greater immersion I will be watching it baked.

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BaseHitToLeft Mar 27, 2026 +7

Unfortunately GRRM only wrote 3 D&E stories

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ScoobyMaroon Mar 27, 2026 +10

He has spoken about a bunch of Dunk and Egg stories he would like to write but hasn't. Just keep him involved in the production and it could work out. Just because Benioff and Weiss screwed it up doesn't mean everyone will.

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FenerBoarOfWar Mar 27, 2026 +8

Very true. Relying on George has worked out so well so far and he never has any falling outs with productions.

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Any-Concentrate2280 Mar 27, 2026 +1

But the changes they’re making to Fire and Blood have humungous implications, it’s not exactly a fair comparison. You can go watch interviews with Ira Parker and the guy has a very different mindset to Ryan Condal.

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Ralphie5231 Mar 27, 2026 -14

3 short stories that are all disconnected is all you get. Then 10 seasons of slop

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MajimaBuu Mar 27, 2026 +87

I can't believe KotsK so fully changed the game for these spinoffs. There's hope in any of them now

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ten_year_rebound Mar 27, 2026 +83

The problem is Dunk and Egg is a really lean story and the show adapted it really closely. You get 2 more books of that before you get into “George’s Notes” territory. Same with the other potential shows and spinoffs, there is almost zero narrative source material to bounce off of. If history is any indication, this franchise doesn’t do well when it goes off-book.

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Ralphie5231 Mar 27, 2026 +23

Not even really books. 3 short stories

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ImpossibleDenial Mar 27, 2026 +16

Technically 3 novellas

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Ralphie5231 Mar 27, 2026 +3

I read them and they are very short either way. They also work better if you already understand and know about the universe.

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ImpossibleDenial Mar 28, 2026

Yeah because either way they aren’t short stories lol, I’ve read them and short stories, have you also read short stories?

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Ralphie5231 Mar 28, 2026 -1

cool. thanks for gatekeeping what a short story is?

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boyyouguysaredumb Mar 28, 2026

2026 and somebody, literally any person, just admits they were wrong challenge [IMPOSSIBLE]

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MajimaBuu Mar 27, 2026 +5

That's a good point but I think Dunk and Egg is also an example of how these shows need great writers themselves. My bet is that a talented writer / director could come up with a completely new story in this world and it'd be 99% as good. Like think about how much people love Andor, a spinoff of a spinoff

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reachisown Mar 27, 2026 -6

I highly doubt that tbh this is George's world, noone else will be able to replicate what he can. 50% the quality seems more realistic than 99%

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monsantobreath Mar 28, 2026 +1

That's naive. Once you have a pattern set it's easy to play in that space. So many great shows were full of writers rooms that cycled people in and out. If the show is made well it doesn't matter much. And that's not considering that someone else could make magic with GoT. That's how many great franchises work. Scott's Alien isn't Cameron's Aliens. We just need more David Milches and fewer Kurtzmans out there getting the gig.

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MeCritic Mar 27, 2026 +1

Didn’t the producers already said, that they would love to make 12 seasons covering entire life of the characters? With small pauses in-between so the actors could get old?!

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ten_year_rebound Mar 27, 2026 +5

Doesn’t change that those stories are unwritten, and it’s unlikely George would actually complete any more, let alone enough for that many seasons.

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JinSakai619 Mar 27, 2026 +3

He's more likely to work on Heated Rivalry second season than ASOIAF works.

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makeoutwiththatmoose Mar 28, 2026 +1

*The Boston Raiders send their regards.*

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Simmers429 Mar 27, 2026 +25

Much of that is just peak George R. R. Martin writing from books though. Any further spinoffs have either a vague plot outline, or nothing.

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NativeMasshole Mar 27, 2026 +7

That's not what the article says at all?

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PrestigeArrival Mar 27, 2026 +2

I just hope they’re willing to do more non-Targaryen stories.

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TheWholeOfTheAss Mar 27, 2026 +2

HBO only wanna do small budget fare like Dunk and Egg. There’s not a lot of other stories like that in the Ice and Fire series. Blackfyre Rebellion? With all those large scale battles? Not gonna happen

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Seraphayel Mar 27, 2026 +2

Let’s wait and see how Season 3 of House of the Dragon will be

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MajimaBuu Mar 27, 2026

Oh I've written that off

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EveningNo8643 Mar 28, 2026 +1

Which I find kinda funny cuz Listnook swore up and down they wouldn’t watch any spinoffs after s7 and how they were all doomed to fail

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ZiCUnlivdbirch Mar 27, 2026 -1

What? It was HotD season 1 that released the floodgates so to speak. KotSK has had little to no impact at this point. There's been a ton of things "in development" for a while now and there's pretty constant news when a plan gets shelved again or sent to rewrites. All of that being pre KotSK.

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Upbeat_Tension_8077 Mar 27, 2026 +23

I'm praying to God that AKOTSK can keep the lighthearted (comparatively to the other two shows) atmosphere from its first season to the rest of its run. Regarding the other spin-off ideas, ngl I still wonder about the potential of the Bloodmoon spin-off with Naomi Watts that got scrapped, even though it's rumored White Walkers plot would've felt anticlimactic after how it ended in the main series

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Illuvatar-Stranger Mar 28, 2026 +1

The first six or seven stories while Eggs young will probably be light-hearted but it'll be much more complex, political and depressing once he's an adult so they might stop at a certain point

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PlayBey0nd87 Mar 27, 2026 +28

I want the Snow spinoff.

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finniruse Mar 27, 2026 +3

What would it be about tho

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tweuep Mar 28, 2026 +6

Probably Jon Snow f****** around in the North beyond the Wall. And then realizing actually, civilized life is not so bad after all and being an exile actually is a punishment.

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LordReaperofMars Mar 28, 2026 +1

personally i could see a snow spinoff as a chance to redeem the anti-climax of the White Walker storyline. Make up something about how Jon has to stop “the real threat” or some such. Horror survival story of him having to fight a resurgence of the Army of the Dead.

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HiphopopoptimusPrime Mar 28, 2026 +3

Somehow, the Night King returned.

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Crazyripps Mar 28, 2026 +1

Finding a new love and leading his people.

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JinSakai619 Mar 27, 2026 -5

It was cancelled for being too sad. Do people talk about El Camino at all? This is the first time I'm thinking about if after it released.

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2580374 Mar 27, 2026 +7

Wtf are you talking about

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JinSakai619 Mar 27, 2026 -1

[https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2026/01/18/hbo-rejected-jon-snow-game-of-thrones-sequel-for-being-too-depressing/](https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2026/01/18/hbo-rejected-jon-snow-game-of-thrones-sequel-for-being-too-depressing/) I'm then talking Breaking Bad's spin off movie that nobody cares about.

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stoneman9284 Mar 28, 2026 +1

So you’re trying to say a Jon Snow spinoff would be too sad to be good?

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JinSakai619 Mar 28, 2026 +1

B****, can you not read? It was cancelled because the idea proposed was just Jon being sad and lonely.

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stoneman9284 Mar 28, 2026

Rude. But yea the part I missed was I didn’t realize that person was referring to *the* Jon snow show that isn’t being made. I thought they just meant *a* Jon snow show

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Berliner1220 Mar 27, 2026 +27

Can someone explain to me why they don’t like House of the Dragon? I’m not being condescending, just curious what’s so wrong with it? I have enjoyed it a lot.

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Vandergrif Mar 27, 2026 +41

Most people enjoyed the first season I think, the issue is more in the second season where: -A lot of Rhaenyra and Alicent going back and forth with each other having largely the same conversation several times over in implausible and increasingly ridiculous circumstances. -Daemon having a filler acid trip for several episodes straight where he largely does nothing of substance. -80% of Rhaenyra's scenes being summed up with the phrase "what would you have me do?". -80% of Corlys's scenes being him hanging out on a dock not really doing anything. -Bizarre and illogical circumstances like Rhaenys popping out of the dragon pit *on top of a dragon* (and killing a few hundred peasants in the process) right in front of all of her side's enemies only to turn around and leave instead of torching the lot of them in one go only to then later die along with her dragon fighting several of them in combat. -Then probably most significantly the entire season very clearly building up to a final two episodes that then got shunted into the next season which left season 2 on a remarkably anticlimactic and unsatisfying conclusion and left people waiting for season 3 for *yet another* two years.

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nucky_johnson Mar 27, 2026 -15

some of your complaints are valid, but equating Daemon's arc to filler is donkeybrained

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Vandergrif Mar 27, 2026 +11

Perhaps 'filler' isn't quite the right word for it, but... maybe over-indulgent? It takes up an unnecessarily long length of time to largely reiterate over the same general theme and plot point over and over. Like you could cut half those scenes of him ambling around in a daze and it wouldn't make much of a difference at all. A lot of screen time there which could have been better utilized elsewhere. They spent what felt like a full hour of an already truncated season (8 episodes instead of the full 10) on him to cover what could have just as easily been done in 10-15 minutes is the thing. Not to mention the pacing of stretching his little bit over the whole season making it seem even more overly drawn out. One way or another some aspect of that wasn't handled particularly well.

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Regula96 Mar 27, 2026 +54

It's a great show but the 2+ year waits between seasons plus the fact that season 2 ended without having a proper finale REALLY turned people on it.

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RandomDudewithIdeas Mar 27, 2026 +28

What actually made people turn against it was the terrible writing in the second half of season 2. There was a lot of nonsensical teleporting, bullshit prophecies, and several characters were whitewashed and ruined, reminding viewers of the worst aspects of Game of Thrones Season 7 and 8. By the end of HotD's second season, the show had lost its momentum and what made this universe interesting in the first place. The lack of a proper finale and the long wait times were just the icing on the cake.

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Khaldara Mar 27, 2026 +2

I think GOT’s last season shoulders most of the blame personally. A lot of people thought having years of buildup to a mediocre payoff was kind of a huge letdown, can’t really blame them for not wanting to get invested in the same universe and potentially subject themselves to the same thing again. Might turn into one of those things where people just wait for the whole thing to wrap up before they decide if it’s worth their time

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Berliner1220 Mar 27, 2026 -4

I mean, what’s worse, rushed shitty seasons or taking their time to produce a quality show? Sometimes feels like they can’t win.

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Time_Entertainer_319 Mar 27, 2026 +13

I mean, season 2 took 2 years and was still shit. So it’s not really about number of years between seasons.

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Berliner1220 Mar 27, 2026 -4

I liked it a lot. Why did you think it was shit?

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LegitimateMoney00 Mar 27, 2026 +14

It was repetitive and completely dumbed down. The writers don’t want any input from GRRM which is why the show went completely off the rails. There is a reason why every season of the GoT universe with GRRM’s involvement are considered the best ones (the first four seasons of GoT, S1 of HotD, S1 of AKOT7K). He knows his world better than anyone else.

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FillionMyMind Mar 27, 2026 -2

I have found it amusing that people are just pretending now that Season 6 of GoT wasn’t one of the best seasons of the show because it doesn’t fit the narrative anymore. We went from “8 is bad and 7 has a lot of questionable elements” to “the second GRRM left everything got dramatically worse” when that neglects that some of the best episodes of the entire show came in the second half of the series. 5 was a great season as well apart from the sand snakes being lame ass characters. HotD Season 1 is also pretty good, but that’s more on par with the quality of GoT season 7 than anything resembling peak GoT. The time jumping makes the storytelling feel pretty sloppy at times

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reachisown Mar 27, 2026 +3

Honestly we were all still riding the high from season 4 and we were immune to the huge drop in writing quality of seasons 5 and 6. Upon rewatch it's excruciatingly painful how big the drop in quality is even from the first episode of S5.

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LegitimateMoney00 Mar 27, 2026 +3

Ah yes, Season 6 had two great spectacles at the end of the season with a Hodor shoved in the middle but outside of that the show was a mess even at that point. So many characters had already been butchered (Jon Snow, Tyrion, Varys, Littlefinger, Stannis, Euron, all of the Martels etc.) In season 6, The Arya plot line had a terrible unrealistic ending. Euron Greyjoy’s introduction and character itself were butchered. Daenerys ending in Meereen was a letdown. Everything Bran did with the three eyed raven ended up being useless. I can go on. It’s a good season of TV as a standalone, but compared to the earlier seasons? It doesn’t even touch it. In the earlier seasons, actions had consequences, that’s the whole point of the show and why people fell in love with it. That was already gone by S6. When GRRM left the show, you can clearly see that the quality in writing got worse in S5. And no S1 of HotD is far superior to S7 of GoT

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Imaginary-Plate2987 Mar 27, 2026 -6

See how you didn’t even get a proper answer? This isn’t actually a place for proper tv discourse. It’s just a place for Listnookors to jerk each other off by spouting the same opinions they can’t properly explain. Season 2 had some flaws, but I agree that it was still mostly great. It lacked a proper conclusion and instead they had a rushed finale that deviated from the books, which was disappointing as it potentially changes the trajectory of some character arcs for the worse. Still very excited for season 3, and it looks like we’ll be getting those big battle sequences that were teased for the end of season 2. Even with the show having some stumbles, it’s still far better than 90 percent of other shows.

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nobdy89 Mar 27, 2026 +4

HBO has done yearly releases with some of the greatest shows on TV. I know HotD has a lot more cgi than The Wire or The Sopranos, but it is a long time to expect the audience to stay hyped.

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MemeLord1337_ Mar 27, 2026 +2

We are sick of this mentality GOT did 6 seasons in 6 years. HOTD S2 was 8 episodes instead of 10, and they have confirmed the battle they had planned for the original 10 eps have been pushed back to S3 because of the episode shortening. So we are really only getting 6 episodes of new content after another 2+ years.

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trusty20 Mar 27, 2026 +1

How about the standard set for the previous 80 years prior to 2015, quite literally all of the top shows of all time shipped a season per year of incredible quality and scope. Now we have studios "taking their time" for 2+ years to ship forgettable 8 episode seasons.

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Jimmni Mar 27, 2026 +5

I just found it boring. None of the characters interested or engaged me, nor did the setting. I can see why some loved it but I just didn't get anything out of it personally. I dopped it about 2/3 into season 1.

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TheWillows_1907 Mar 27, 2026 +5

The characters and stories just aren’t as interesting. I cared more about Tyrion than the entire cast of House of the Dragon.

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_SimpleRip Mar 28, 2026 +3

HOD is so boring and has no interesting storylines imo. Not even close to GOT

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deadpigeon29 Mar 27, 2026 +4

I think a lot of people headed into the first season with the intention of hating it because it was the first thing after the last few poorly received season of GoT. I think it also attracted certain crowds because there was some race swapping of certain characters and the fact it was largely following female characters. In my opinion, season 1 was great and ended up surprising a lot of people but there was always an undercurrent of people who wanted to hate it. Season 2 was just flat and seemed to tread water.

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bloodyturtle Mar 28, 2026 +1

They committed the ultimate crime of ending a season with 4 slow episodes

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lospollosakhis Mar 28, 2026 +1

I love it and I think most people do but Listnook has a tendency to turn on things really quickly. Season 2 had its faults but it was still good in my opinion.

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djm19 Mar 27, 2026 +1

A lot of people do it’s one of HBOs most watched shows. It also had great reviews.

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TheWholeOfTheAss Mar 27, 2026 -4

It differs from the source material, GRRM is feuding with the creators, and there’s also general Listnook hivemind hate. I read the story when it was part of two short story collections and again when it was part of the world book and again when it was in the Targ history book, so I’m a h******* fan, and I like House of Dragon. The gap between seasons is what I find most annoying. The 2nd season was setting up stuff for the 3rd and that’d have been all cool if the show came out a year later but over 2 years? That’s a lot of characters and lore to keep in one’s head! It’s an entertaining enough show on its own, as you know. Ignore the haters and enjoy!

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Blueberry_H3AD Mar 27, 2026 +3

There weren’t any updates in that article at all. Just the same info over and over again. I think the average viewer knows the production process at this point so an article where an executive explains the basics of television production is not an article updating us on new material coming out.

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OkStrategy685 Mar 28, 2026 +2

I'm still sad about the ending. He should have commanded the dragon to "burn them all" so they could rule together in Tyranny. It would have made perfect sense given he was related to her, and would have become the new "mad king" What a bad, bad ending.

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jam0105 Mar 27, 2026 +2

I’d prefer less shows, but annual seasons. Who cares about 5 different shows that only get 8 episodes every 30 months

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MajorAlanDutch Mar 27, 2026 +1

I want more Jon and Arya

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bluehaven101 Mar 27, 2026 +1

I want an animated show that explores the storylines in the books that weren't adapted, into self contained stories. It could be an anthology series where each season is dedicated to a seperate storyline. Some storylines could overlap with what happens in the series, but in this spin-off, those bits would happen off-screen -for those storylines, the show would explore the before and after.

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boomosaur Mar 27, 2026 +1

Now compare that to what paramount did with all the awful trek spinoffs.

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Ladzofinsurrect Mar 27, 2026 +1

Wrap up HotD by season 4 and just stick to Dunk n Egg please.

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n0tAgOat Mar 28, 2026 +1

Watching Disney torpedo Star Wars was a lesson for everyone.

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HardcoreKaraoke Mar 28, 2026 +1

Makes sense. A lot of people were interested in the Jon Snow sequel show they announced and then cancelled. So it doesn't make sense to announce anything unless it's fully ready to go. Honestly though just keep giving us A Knight Of The Nine Kingdoms until they run out of stories and I'm happy.

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Bananaman9020 Mar 28, 2026 +1

That's what the people want more spin offs. Consumers love them. I imagine discussions occur during their meetings. How about a new and fresh book series that hasn't been adapted

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original_goat_man Mar 28, 2026 +1

If they do spinoffs I would like to see one set in the far east of Essos or the fall of Valaria

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braumbles Mar 28, 2026 +1

The only spinoff I want is Arya sailing the seas like One Piece.

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Crazyripps Mar 28, 2026 +1

Just want more of the straight adaptation. AKOTSK showed when you follow the books you get gold

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jarlylerna999 Mar 28, 2026 +1

'Script for financial return' approach. There fixed it.

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Notagenome Mar 27, 2026 +1

Just reboot the franchise and properly adapt the latter books. Removing Lady Stoneheart and Young Griff gave Tyrion and Jaime f*** all to do.

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Yung_Corneliois Mar 27, 2026 +26

Not only is it way too early to reboot the franchise but there’s no reason to even go down that path when the books are no longer being written.

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Time_Entertainer_319 Mar 27, 2026 +5

It’s still one of the most popular shows right now. Rebooting it will be premature. Like Harry Potter

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Vandergrif Mar 27, 2026 +5

That would be fine if only there were enough book to adapt after all these years. Young Griff has done almost nothing in the existing material and neither has Lady Stoneheart.

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reachisown Mar 27, 2026 +3

What do you mean? Tyrion was making c*** and wine jokes for 4 seasons.

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gbinasia Mar 27, 2026 +2

A reboot will only happen once George is dead or the finals books have come out. We are looking at another 10 years at the very least. And I hope that when they do they'll do all the magic beats they missed, and that I will live long enough to finish the series lol

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findings1mo Mar 28, 2026 +2

A reboot will never happen because the books will never come out. And why would they want to reboot it? They can just make spin-offs and sequels.

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Podge214 Mar 28, 2026 +1

Money states it will absolutely be rebooted at some point for better or worse. The quality would depend on whether George has an author in mind to finish his work when he dies or if he wants the story to die with him.

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findings1mo Mar 28, 2026 +1

Nah, I see this as Star Wars. The universe itself can support infinite new stories. And let's face it, a lot of the appeal of Game of Thrones were the reveals and cliffhangers. That doesn't work the same the second time around. I doubt it happens, at least in our lifetime. And we're definitely not getting the books, so it's a question of what the point of making another version with presumably a different ending would be, if it would all just be made for the TV again. Even the Harry Potter reboot makes sense as an expanded version with the material that was cut from movies, but this one wouldn't make sense at all.

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Crazyripps Mar 28, 2026 +1

I mean what’s the point when the book isn’t done. They had less characters and it was still a mess after they ran out of material.

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pisz Mar 27, 2026 +1

I'd love to see that Bloodmoon pilot. Maybe it'll leak online someday.

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Mean_Rule9823 Mar 27, 2026 +1

Just dont... it will be horrible lol everyone remember the ending and why they changed it. It will be 10x worse than that

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Miguelohara099 Mar 27, 2026 +1

House of the dragon had the making of being the best tv on tv but they tossed out George (who really should be working on his books) But if he’s going to make himself too busy to work on the books then I’d like for him to be busy working on HOTD because we likely won’t get a multiple season show with this good of dragon visuals anytime soon.

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thefallofrome5 Mar 27, 2026 +1

Don’t give Martin anymore money unless he finishes his work.

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Crazyripps Mar 28, 2026 +1

You act like he needs more money, man would never have to worry about money again.

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Outrageous_Library50 Mar 28, 2026 +1

Good god almighty they’re never gonna let this shit die And yet the books will somehow still Remain unfinished What fresh hell is this

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niofalpha Mar 27, 2026 -1

I love ASOIAF but the spin offs that aren’t based on written text all just feels underwhelming. I don’t care about Yi-Ti, I don’t care about Jon jerking off beyond the wall. Give me Maegor or Aegon IV

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BlacqanSilverSun Mar 27, 2026 +7

You don't care but you'll watch

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NeuroTrophicShock Mar 27, 2026

I cannot wait to not watch how they screw up the next series!

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Catdaddy84 Mar 27, 2026

For the record I don't hate these spin-offs and I often quite enjoy them but it is a bummer that they haven't found a new franchise property to adapt.

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Raphiki415 Mar 28, 2026

LET👏🏼GEORGE👏🏼FINISH👏🏼THE👏🏼DAMN👏🏼BOOKS!

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