Probably regretting how season 8 went
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They blew their load with the red wedding. It worked because it was the consequence of several important factors of feudal politics and logistics. A boy-king needed to get his army across a river, so be brokered a deal with the lord who owned the only viable crossing, a man from a house that was a rival of the boy-king's maternal bloodline. The boy-king's highest military advisor was also a rival of his paternal bloodline. The boy-king reneged on his deal with the lord of the crossing, so the lord they were at war with offered a deal to the boy-king's rivals, betray the boy-king, and the war will be ended with the lords not only being given amnesty, but will be given control of the boy-king's former holdings. And so they did.
Compare to later seasons, where armies just magically appear wherever and whenever the plot requires, and characters can break their word and do whatever they want without any consequences. Cersei blowing up the great sept should have sparked a peasant revolt unlike Westeros had ever seen, but I don't recall if it was even mentioned after the fact.
The fact that they filmed the Red Wedding demonstrates the show was more interested in shock value than anything else.
I'm not defending Martin, who I think is a hack fraud, but at least in the books it happened off-screen and was shocking just because you're not sure whether it's true or not.
The books are amazing, the show was always shit. You want to know why they didn't see Ghost right away when they found the pups? There was snow on the ground. How is everyone armored? Brightly colored enameled full plate in the books; half plate at best, and mostly leather and mail in the show.
Nearly a decade of hyping the apocaplytic winters of Westeros and we barely even saw any snow at the end.
I liked the big boom battles in surround sound. The money they put into those really shown.
They probably wont even convince kit harrington to do the project.
He holds a grudge for their writing ruining his character and undermining his ability as an actor and his image taking a hit for the role in season 8 and he's still on Marvel's docket as the black knight.
If you watch their brand of cape shit they've been asking who replaces captain america and iron man in the avengers, who will lead? Then they introduced the black knight(kit harington), the leader of the avengers in the 90s.
Even on a sinking ship he'll make more money on cape shit than HBO.