Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss recently revealed that they didn’t listen to fans’ feedback during the show’s eight-year run. Game of Thrones premiere in 2011 to rave reviews, and each subsequent season also enjoyed an overwhelmingly positive response from followers and pundits. Then came season 8. Functioning as the final season of HBO’s behemoth sequence, the eighth season of Game of Thrones derived outrage from most of its fanbase , and earned itself an abysmal Rotten Tomatoes rating. This differentiated immerse in aspect could’ve been due to the ending’s numerous scheme constructions, but many have cited its abridged duration as the source of the problem.

Game of Thrones is based on George R. R. Martin’s acclaimed, unfinished A Song of Ice and Fire book serial, and for a fair gob of its long haul, it remained faithful to its source material. But according to Martin himself, the picture needed to be five seasons longerin order to capture the full scope of his saga.

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Twitter user @ForArya live-tweeted a body at the Austin Film Festival, where Benioff and Weiss were scheduled to speak. During the session, the showrunners showed the process involved in utter Game of Thrones and even admitted that they didn’t listen to love during the show’s production. They too is acknowledged that they had no idea what they were doing at the beginning, weren’t sure how to do video, and were basically learning as they went.

None of this is particularly shocking. Benioff and Weiss had to deviate from the source material because Martin hasn’t produceda proper A Song of Ice and Fire installment in eight years. They wanted to tell a story they could be proud of, but fans had better idea about what the fuck is oblige the demo better. The showrunners could’ve started with not leaving coffee cups and water bottles on located during filming though.

Goofs aside, picture pioneers don’t owe their viewers anything besides a good story. Even if their idea of a good story differs from the fans’, it’s important to let them tell that story. Just since they were didn’t listen to fans doesn’t mean they had bad planneds. They may have messed things up quite a few durations( especially during the final season ), but they told their version of the story. At the end of the day, should love actually blame them for that? Probably not. That said, when discussing Game of Thrones, Benioff and Weiss could certainly try to be a bit little arrogant, as many of the statements they made at the Austin Film Festival panel have earned the ire of followers, the above one included.

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