Defense of Game of Thrones' Legacy
I will admit I have my disappointments with GOT in this last season but this show's legacy is unassailable.
1. This show was probably the biggest television cultural phenomena in history reaching multi-millions of people and permeating the general cultural consciousness and being a major connective thread for what I presume to be innumerable workplace and bar conversations. How many friendships and even romances have originated at least in part because of a shared connection of Game of Thrones.
2. This show spawned countless original content from podcasts, to books, to youtube shows. BaldMove is successful mainly because they put effort and care into there content and have built trust with their fans but there is no denying GOT is a major reason they were able to reach so many and grow so big which then allowed them to retain these new fans with their great content.
3. I believe GOT has blazed a trail for future shows to spend movie level amounts of money to tell epic in scope stories. I do not believe The Expanse gets made as competently as it is or at all if not for GOT. The scale of the shooting and technical expertise especially displayed in this final season gives me great hope for future projects.
4. The level of talent then show has brought to us in acting is exciting for the future. I am excited for the future of Maisie, Sophie, Kit, Emilia, Gwendoline and John Bradley. I think This show has really allowed all of us to experience and realize how special of a talent Peter Dinklage is and to be honest without this massive part for a little person I am not sure if the film industry gives him a real chance to be more than a character actor.
5. Finally, in defense of the double D's I would suggest Hanlon's razor. Don't assume malice when incompetence will suffice. I would suggest their major errors were largely due to them just being incompetent in their ability to bring this massive journey to an end. Their decision for shorter seasons perhaps was their hubris but in the end these guys did a great job shaping a tv show from solid source material. When that ran out and they only had bullet points their incompetence at writing original content perhaps showed through. Perhaps they didn't know how to fill out the final seasons with 10 episodes a piece and honestly their hubris in not hiring solid writing help I think can all be chalked up to their incompetence and malice.
In the end this show I think has a great cultural legacy and even though the end is soured somewhat but rushed plot the overall legacy of this show I believe will stand the test of time.
1. This show was probably the biggest television cultural phenomena in history reaching multi-millions of people and permeating the general cultural consciousness and being a major connective thread for what I presume to be innumerable workplace and bar conversations. How many friendships and even romances have originated at least in part because of a shared connection of Game of Thrones.
2. This show spawned countless original content from podcasts, to books, to youtube shows. BaldMove is successful mainly because they put effort and care into there content and have built trust with their fans but there is no denying GOT is a major reason they were able to reach so many and grow so big which then allowed them to retain these new fans with their great content.
3. I believe GOT has blazed a trail for future shows to spend movie level amounts of money to tell epic in scope stories. I do not believe The Expanse gets made as competently as it is or at all if not for GOT. The scale of the shooting and technical expertise especially displayed in this final season gives me great hope for future projects.
4. The level of talent then show has brought to us in acting is exciting for the future. I am excited for the future of Maisie, Sophie, Kit, Emilia, Gwendoline and John Bradley. I think This show has really allowed all of us to experience and realize how special of a talent Peter Dinklage is and to be honest without this massive part for a little person I am not sure if the film industry gives him a real chance to be more than a character actor.
5. Finally, in defense of the double D's I would suggest Hanlon's razor. Don't assume malice when incompetence will suffice. I would suggest their major errors were largely due to them just being incompetent in their ability to bring this massive journey to an end. Their decision for shorter seasons perhaps was their hubris but in the end these guys did a great job shaping a tv show from solid source material. When that ran out and they only had bullet points their incompetence at writing original content perhaps showed through. Perhaps they didn't know how to fill out the final seasons with 10 episodes a piece and honestly their hubris in not hiring solid writing help I think can all be chalked up to their incompetence and malice.
In the end this show I think has a great cultural legacy and even though the end is soured somewhat but rushed plot the overall legacy of this show I believe will stand the test of time.
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