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Charles Bastille's avatar

I assumed when I saw the headline you were going to say you used a Game of Thrones AI Ending generator. :-)

i'm not a huge loyal fan or anything. I mostly enjoyed the show, especially the attention to set detail. The only thing I remember being bothered by was the way the Daenerys Targaryen story ended.

Question for you: Was the ending part of one of George RR Martin's books? I remember at one point the show was delayed because (I think) he owed them a book? Did he ever produce it or did Benioff and company write their own ending?

Am I misremembering all of this? Very possible.

I wasn't a big fan of the books. Very long and tedious, and I'm not sure I need 20 pages devoted to the lighting of a match.

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Ben Ulansey's avatar

Nope! He has notoriously still failed to finish the book. And truthfully, there's a strong argument to be made that's the entire reason the show fell apart. Without source material to go off of, everything began to slowly crumble. I suspect Martin may have accepted he's built a world that's just too big to satisfactorily close. I doubt he'll ever write the end of the series.

I agree with you about his writing. I wanted to like it, but I found it very bland as well. Didn't pull me in at all. It's interesting how well it translated to TV in its heyday.

Thanks for reading, Charles!

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Larry C. Brown's avatar

He still hasn’t released the end of the series.

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Linda Blatnik's avatar

You get it now. I understood and was accepting of the ending's message, but I seemed to be the only one. This is true pretty frequently.

I applauded the end of the

Sopranos; I didn't need to be given any more than the question mark they provided.

I respect the writer's endings, because they are the creators and know the characters and landscape better than we do.

There is one big exception to this for me...

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Ben Ulansey's avatar

What's the big exception for you?

And how badly do I need to start The Sopranos hahaha

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Linda Blatnik's avatar

The big exception will stay put for now.

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Linda Blatnik's avatar

If you haven't seen the Sopranos, see it. It is the Godfather if tv series. The characters and story are the best. You know they are bad, but love them anyway because they are so well developed.

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Andrea Stoeckel's avatar

I'm sorry, the books sux IMHO which is why I don't bother

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Ben Ulansey's avatar

I agree actually. I don't enjoy his writing at all. It's interesting that it translated so well to the TV screen at its best.

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Larry C. Brown's avatar

I was okay with the ending. It wasn’t great. But I thought the backlash was way over the top.

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