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I'll be back.
Join Date: Nov 2002
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House of the Dragon
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#931 |
Has a particular set of skills
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: On the water
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Showrunner says they cut off the episode before the battle to reduce costs. Looks like It’s $20 million an episode but they only do 6 episodes, not 10 or 8.
———————————————————————- Most House of the Dragon fans were not very pleased about the extremely anti-climactic season 2 finale this past weekend, given that it felt like it should be leading into a big battle next week, not two years from now. Showrunner Ryan Condal has responded to that feedback and offered some level of an explanation to journalists at a virtual press conference. What it ultimately comes down to? Budget, and the use of it spread across multiple seasons. “One of the challenges of making television at any scale [is] nobody has infinite time and resources. When you’re a showrunner, you’re always in the position of having to balance storytelling and the resources that you have to tell that story.” Condal says that he wants to give the Battle of the Gullet the “time and space” that it deserves. Though some fans would argue the “time” would have been the entire eight episode season. But here, you can see the results of what may change when you cut down ten episodes of season 1 to eight in season 2, no doubt yet another budget-based movie with episode costs estimated at under or around $20 million an episod |
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#932 |
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Join Date: Oct 2010
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****ing HBO is as much to blame as the writers for the decline in quality this year. Making the writers to cut back to 8 episodes instead of 10 was a huge mistake. They told them to cut it back a month before they began shooting, so then they had to rewrite things.
I had seen something that showed what had went on with the script and everything. It seemed like a huge cluster****. Hopefully they can get 10 episodes this season and it really shouldn't take them 2 years to get to season 3. There were the strikes that ****ed up everything. |
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#933 |
The Boom Boom Room
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Far Beyond Comprehension
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#934 |
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Join Date: Jan 2011
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I listen to the guys at BaldMove for their recaps. They’ve been pretty adamant this is an HBO thing. And they usually don’t hold back on the writing.
Even besides the fact. There’s just no reason we should have to wait 2 years for a new season. This is a show that had zero chance of being cancelled. They should have been filming multiple episodes at the same time. |
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#936 |
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: On the water
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#938 |
Needs more middle fingers
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: San Diego
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Join Date: Oct 2010
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Also this quote is from an interview with Sara Hess, one of the main producers for the show. "I know Ryan felt like we were a good team because Ryan obviously is very steeped in that world and is a huge fan of George [R.R. Martin]. And you know, I mean, I read the books a long time ago so you know, I'm familiar with the world and all that stuff, but I didn't necessarily feel a whole bunch of loyalty to like the story because haven't seen it. So it was just more about like, 'How do we tell this story that's on the page right now? And how do we make that into the best show that we could?" I don't care about not following source material word for word, but that's only if the show is good. This season was not very good. |
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#940 |
You gotta kill a few people
Join Date: Sep 2007
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That’s a hilarious tidbit.
How do you hand over the reigns of a hundred million dollar investment to someone who “read the books a long time ago” and “doesn’t feel loyalty to the story”? Lol. |
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#941 |
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Who knows?
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I thought it was fine.
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