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ElwoodBlues · M
I have my doubts. George R.R. loves to break conventions and foil expectations. For myself, I'm done with the World of Ice & Fire. I'd be willing to read a ten page summary of whatever future books he releases, but I'm not gonna sink any more serious time into his work. I've had my fill of his special forms of cruelty and sexual violence.
beckyromero · 36-40, FVIP
@ElwoodBlues "I have my doubts. George R.R. loves to break conventions and foil expectations."
Perhaps, but D. B. Weiss and David Benioff already foiled expectations and disappointed most fans with season eight.
What producers and writers should understand is fans of a show that runs that long have devoted a good part of their free time in not just watching the show but in developing a connection to their beloved characters.
And when the writers mess with those characters, kill them off near the end of a series or change their behavior in an unrealistic way, they are left not only unsatisified but are unlikely to watch spin-offs or other shows that those writers create. So it's one and done. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...
Perhaps, but D. B. Weiss and David Benioff already foiled expectations and disappointed most fans with season eight.
What producers and writers should understand is fans of a show that runs that long have devoted a good part of their free time in not just watching the show but in developing a connection to their beloved characters.
And when the writers mess with those characters, kill them off near the end of a series or change their behavior in an unrealistic way, they are left not only unsatisified but are unlikely to watch spin-offs or other shows that those writers create. So it's one and done. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...