Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper (Post 11224337)

Can't believe I missed a pun. Slipping in my old age.

Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 11224329)

I mean, "Game of Thrones" the clue is in the name, that's what it's always been about a fight to claim the throne, it never pretended to be anything else? I know what LOTRs/The Hobbit are about and it's completely different, as I said in my other post I loved both those series, the issue is ROP has done a piss poor job to make it interesting compared to those and is DULL compared to HOTD :shrug:

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock (Post 11224365)

I think the difference that I'm trying to say is that GOT had more going on than just who's gonna marry who, from the pilot alone we had the Whitewalkers being established, Daenerys and Viserys being on the other side of the world in hiding from the people from Westeros and slowly gather an army to take Kings Landing back, Bran being shoved out of a window after discovering Incest between Jaime & Cersei (which I remember they had to keep it a secret) but for some reason HOTD acts like incest is the vogue thing to do. And I remember there were just more interesting dynamics being formed in the first few episodes of GOT.

I don't think even in Season 8 would I say that GOT was uneventful.I

Edit... I'd also say that GOT had really sharp dialogue that most newer Shows really lack imo.

Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 11224373)

Yes but Game of Thrones was a much wider scale book series/show, HOTD is literally about one family, a family we got to know briefly from GOTs and a lot of people wanted to see a bit more of their history etc they'd pretty much been completely wiped out by the end of GOTs

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock (Post 11224375)

I get that to some extent.

Imo though a Show based in the GOT universe needs more going on than who's gonna marry who, because the franchise has set a certain standard after 8 Seasons of the original Show that more bigger scale plots are meant to happen.

Spin-Offs should experiment to an extent, but imo weakening the plot to the point that HOTD has is disappointing imo, it's like when Caprica came out as the spin-off to Battlestar Galactica all over again for me.

Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 11224377)

It depends on the spin off though, if they did a spin off of Arya and her travels into the unmapped west of westros, that would be much less about marriage and lineage and heirs than a story about one family and their rises and fall to the the Iron throne. A spin off about Jon Snow and his life in the "wild" North would be different etc

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper (Post 11224379)

A Jon Snow show show is in the pipeline. Hope he finds Drogon and burns Bran and his dull fcuking stories to ashes.

Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 11224383)

I'd have preferred an Arya Spin off personally but I'll watch whatever they make :laugh: The Bran story line turned out to be a damp squib alright. Seems like his only real purpose in the end was to reveal who Jon Snows parents were.

Interesting about Drogon though, since Jon is part tragaryn he could get to claim him if he finds him

Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 11224383)

I'd have preferred an Arya Spin off personally but I'll watch whatever they make :laugh: The Bran story line turned out to be a damp squib alright. Seems like his only real purpose in the end was to reveal who Jon Snows parents were.

Interesting about Drogon though, since Jon is part tragaryn he could get to claim him if he finds him

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper (Post 11224386)

I think there could be more to the bran/jon spinoff. Obviously those wearwood trees aren't in it for the greater good, and bran flat out saying "why do you think I came all this way?" in that stupid meeting hints at the fact he knew a lot more than he let on.

Emilia is supposed to be in the spin off, so maybe some blood magic or maybe flashbacks of some sort?

I liked Arya through the show but the last couple of seasons ruined her. Not her fault (they did the same to jon), so I'd guess there is less interest in seeing her again from the wider public. Everyone watched Jon in the thick of it for more seasons, and then were let down by "muh queen, I don't want it," so more people probably want to see him rehabilitated.

Originally Posted by Zizu (Post 11224387)

What about a Daenerys spin off which starts with her awaking from a dream / nightmare but really everything is just fine and dandy with her and John Snow ..

Well it happened in Dallas or was it Dynasty ?


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Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 11224388)

Arya was great all the way through!

Best moment of the whole series for me was this

Originally Posted by bitontheslide (Post 11224328)

HotD is much more family friendly than GoT ever was

Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 11224377)

It depends on the spin off though, if they did a spin off of Arya and her travels into the unmapped west of westros, that would be much less about marriage and lineage and heirs than a story about one family and their rises and fall to the the Iron throne. A spin off about Jon Snow and his life in the "wild" North would be different etc

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper (Post 11224379)

A Jon Snow show show is in the pipeline. Hope he finds Drogon and burns Bran and his dull fcuking stories to ashes.

Originally Posted by bitontheslide (Post 11224328)

HotD is much more family friendly than GoT ever was

Originally Posted by Nicky91 (Post 11224493)

''Dutch Adonis'' Michiel Huisman returning in the Jon Snow spin off pls as Daario Naharis


finding out Jon murdered his love and he wants to have his revenge



would make up for a nice storyline i think


Daario learning to ride Drogon would also make more sense

Originally Posted by Barry. (Post 11224513)

So far I’m loving HOD, but haven’t seen lotr but seen the movies which I thought were ok I guess so it makes me think I won’t really enjoy the tv show. Might be wrong though

Originally Posted by Nicky91 (Post 11224493)

''Dutch Adonis'' Michiel Huisman returning in the Jon Snow spin off pls as Daario Naharis


finding out Jon murdered his love and he wants to have his revenge



would make up for a nice storyline i think


Daario learning to ride Drogon would also make more sense

Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 11224511)

Don't you have to have Targaryn blood to be a dragon rider?

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper (Post 11224524)

It's the blood of old Valyria, but as it's only the Targaryen's that are still around, Dario would be a snack if he approached Drogon.