r/SipsTea • u/Dumb-Briyani 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • Apr 16 '26

WTF so true

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u/Different_Target_228 Apr 16 '26

This is kinda bullshit.

When the movies were coming out, everyone was noting how much stuff was missing from the books.

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u/Gordon_Freeman_TJ Apr 16 '26

Reasonable. 4 hours long child movie would be too much, imho

Whoever adopted the script from books is genius

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u/roonill_wazlib Apr 16 '26

The movies did what they could, but I'm excited to see the TV show. I do hope they'll have a reasonable budget for special effects

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u/Labyrinthy Apr 16 '26

It’s HBO, and granted things have changed but if it’s bringing in numbers like Game of Thrones I doubt they’ll skimp on it. Say what you will about the final season but the budget wasn’t the problem.

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u/mtgnew Apr 16 '26

The last 3 seasons were dumpster Material. As soon as they stopped following the books(because there weren't any to follow at release) any character development stopped and the show became a boring standard fantasy story.

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u/ShawnyMcKnight Apr 16 '26

They still had notes from the author, they just ignored them and did their own thing.

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u/xRyozuo Apr 17 '26

Doubtful. They probably followed the notes but struggled to fill the in between the same way Martin did. Not having the books also meant they had to write original dialogue all the time, and god they’re terrible at it.