GoT had the best strategy for ending a show: Make it so bad nobody wants more and you can go on to make something new and original instead of doing the same thing forever. 😌

[–] butwhyishischinabook@anarchist.nexus 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

two spinoffs later

[–] RamSwamson 2 points 3 days ago

Man, I hated the last two and a half seasons of GoT. I couldn't stay awake through a single episode of HotD, except for the one where shit actually happened. Didn't even bother trying to watch the second season. I wanted to hate aKot7K (is that right?) but I just couldn't. If I had never watched any of the previous series I would say it's excellent. But because it's tainted by the previous, I cannot hold it in high regard for some reason. Damn shame too, I like the show.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

and you can go on to make something new and original instead of doing the same thing forever.

Lol this might be part of the joke/sarcasm but those guys butchered the ending so that they could go work on the (at the time) new Star Wars trilogy, which is almost an exact ripoff of the original trilogy.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My understanding is they ended up not working on it due to being silently fired by Disney.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Yep. It's been a while, but it may have had to do with them tarnishing their names with that ending.

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Two spin off shows made, two more in the pipeline and a movie..

Yeah no one wants more.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

The same is true for The Walking Dead and that show was dead before the original was even halfway through airing.