Posted: May 23, 2019 8:44 pm
Matthew Shute wrote:-The fact that we got a rushed mess. The fact that 20-30 episodes of remaining story were crudely shoved into 13 episodes, 2 truncated seasons instead of the 2 or 3 full seasons GRRM and some at HBO argued for. Asked why the show had to come to an end, GRRM replied, "ask Dave and Dan". He was confident there was enough life and material left to make as many as 13 seasons, total. And yet 8 full seasons was too much to ask? Apparently so, cuz Star Wars. GoT deserved so much better.
Not really a disagreement as I would have loved more GoT and a more developed endgame possibly over several more season, but given the reality of the show and what it was taking to produce it I don't know that I would really want multiple more seasons.
It took them 3 years to produce 2 seasons which are really only about 1.5 seasons. So basically it was taking them 2 years per season with diminishing returns at that. Which I think is practically unavoidable in TV. I think the season 8 we got was the least worst option for ending the series. Yes it could have been better but the idea of 5 more seasons spread out over another decade sounds torturous.