Boardwalk Empire got chopped too, in favour of something called "Vinyl" that I'm not very interested in seeing, and which itself apparently lasted all of a season. I think BE did pretty well with the surprise truncated fifth season, tbh. It's a very black-humoured show, as to be expected from
Sopranos alumni, and s5 had some of the funniest and darkest material of all. Glaringly obvious how they were forced to skip a vast chunk of time, but the parlay was sound.
And on the other side of these underfed shows, there's Game of Thrones.
I've never seen a production die of sheer laziness before, with HBO desperately offering to fund season after season after season, and the showrunners being all "No lol, we are
sprinting 2 the finish line."
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Oh well. At least
"master storytellers" *coof* Benioff & Weiss can now enjoy their lucrative Star Wars movie trilogy gig. What? It fell through? Oh wow. And now they're choking down CCP-pandering cock at Netflix? I just can't wait. Blimey, they'd better keep the black characters off the promotional materials. Oh right, there aren't any. lmao!
Tangential Rant Inbound: I used to be sympathetic to the
"They have to pay their actors! GRRM doesn't have to pay his characters!" argument. Now, post "MUH QUEEN" and all the other shite they cobbled together for S7/8? Find hungrier actors and give them the roles. Fire the producers en masse, too, if they can't be fucking arsed. Unbelievable. If they'd continued adapting the books to the same standard as S1-4, they'd be hitting the end of Book 4 around now. Maybe.
I started writing out a list of characters, plotlines and scenarios that were either AWOL or unrecognisably simplified for TV, but it'd make this post an even bigger unsolicited ASOIAF spergfest than it already is. I modify my stance - with annual full-length seasons, they'd be 75% through Book 4, with the even more heavingly massive Book 5 still waiting.
(not that I think GRRM would've ever finished his series. As per the aging/expensive actors argument, I'm a lot less sympathetic to his
"How dare people ask me about ASOIAF" bullshit now. Nobody outside of his niche gave one utter fuck who he was pre-show, and now he's in his 70s, and fat as fuck, and rich as fuck, and the only thing he's published in the decade since Book 6 is a moderately expanded Targaryen omnibus, with a Sonichu-esque chronology attached, which I bought and read and quite enjoyed, but then I'm a fucking sperg.
Of course they're gonna wonder WTF his problem is)
Fire and Blood wrote:According to Eustace, Lord Jasper's sobriquet "Ironrod" derived from his unbending attitudes to matters of law - but Mushroom claims it was from the stiffness of his member.
Oh you!
Some say that Alys Rivers merely raised a hand, and Ser Regis began to scream and clutch his head, until his skull burst apart, spraying blood and brains.
Yo, this one ill bastard paramour broad, five-star fleeting glimpse of eldritch horror as always Jyoji-sensei, tell me mo- George? George?!
GEOOOOOORGE - oh, he's flown off to NZ to host another D&D 2nd Ed tournament, phew. Thought he'd carked it!
/tangent over, load blown.
Did
Six Feet Under get shitcanned? I hear great things about it, but suddenly I'm sensing a trend with non-Sopranos HBO stuff. There was #1 Gaijin Super Sentai Show
Oz too, holy fuck, now that one shot its load and then some. You might even say it bust until there was only dust!