Poll: Winter Is Coming - HBO's A Game of Thrones [READ WARNING]

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Who will rule Westeros?

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arknor said:
the series will probably be canceled before the dragons are ever big enough to do anything..
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Season 3 was commissioned even before Season 2 started to air. Season 2 finale had the best ever viewing figures for the show.

Unless millions of people suddenly disappear this show isn't going anywhere for a long time.
 
I remember Enterprise needing £20m to bring back another series and then we get Terra Nova - costing around £7/8m an episode!!! And for what!? When did it all get so expensive?
 
Surely composite CG work should have got cheaper?!

There's plenty of people who do it quite convincingly just for YouTube videos
 
arknor said:
ROME had a similar budget and HBO killed it because it was "notoriously expensive" ;)
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Actually, Rome was a collaboration between HBO and the BBC. It was cancelled because the BBC couldn't afford it, not because HBO couldn't.

HBO Chairman Chris Albrecht announced in a July 2006 news conference that season two of Rome would be its last, citing the fact that the series (called "notoriously expensive" by Broadcasting & Cable) had been developed under a two-year contract with the BBC that would have been difficult for the BBC to extend due to the series' cost.
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xibinim said:
I remember Enterprise needing £20m to bring back another series and then we get Terra Nova - costing around £7/8m an episode!!! And for what!? When did it all get so expensive?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_Nova_(TV_series)

I wondered that as well, I knew a lot of the cost would have come from location filming. Sets outside, long term sets mean, land, and maybe more importantly as the wiki link says, at the mercy of weather. The pilot cost $14mil more than it should have because of torrential rain putting them back and needing reshoots. IT says it only costs $4mil average per ep compared to $3mil average of other network drama's, but that is down to a mostly unknown cast. THat thing went 3 years and you'd have the the wage costs going up a couple mil per ep, at least.

Biggest issue with Enterprise was even with a massive fan base for Star trek before enterprise started, it wasn't that popular, it wasn't gaining new fans afaik and most of the old fans weren't very interested. A new show could get a massive following and make a new expensive show profitable. Pilot had 12+mil ratings, first season started at 9.5 and dropped to around 4.5mil and it went down around a mil every season :(


GoT seems to be incredibly popular pretty much world wide, difference between GoT and Terranova is, one is good, one is utter turd in every single possible way :p

Though due to american tv weirdness Terra Nova got well over twice the ratings on average, network vs subscription tv afaik
 
Eeeeeethan said:
Season 3 was commissioned even before Season 2 started to air. Season 2 finale had the best ever viewing figures for the show.

Unless millions of people suddenly disappear this show isn't going anywhere for a long time.
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Exactly - viewing figures are going up and it's the third most watched series in HBO history!

I expect they'll plan the future series taking into account episode cost as they obviously did with season 2, and the book lends itself to that fine. Not only are viewing figures great, but critical reception is too.

There's no chance of GoT being cancelled for at least another season. The only issue might be if/when they get towards catching up with the books!
 
The GoT producers know the plot lines of the major characters in case GRRM dies so it could be interesting, GRRM has 3-4 years to get the 6th book done and then a further year to get the next book done, if he hasn't decided that it needs an 8th book (which he has alluded to :/)
 
Got a source on that?

I heard him say that a couple of people know the main plot points of the future books, but I didn't think it was the series producers
 
"Turned out nice again". He could even name one of the characters George Formby. Nobody would know the difference. :D
 
The last couple of episodes were a bit of a let down TBH... Just not as well done as the rest.

The battle scene after the explosion (which was epic!) had the typical Sharpe battle about it. A massive battle with "thousands" of men acted out by about a dozen on each side.:confused: If you can't get the budget to get thousands of men don't show the scene in that way, it just spoils it.

Also who the **** sends out a couple of dozen men to beat the attachers away? There is a reason you have walls, it's easier to fight them, even more so when you move all your defenders out and around the attackers! Although that is just plot and as such I can live with that, the fight was just **** though, shame as a lot of the rest was quite good.



Hikari Kisugi said:
I doubt they did, they were showed knocking out Theon, they were also given the order from Rob that any man who surrendered would be returned home, except Theon, so I reckon they knock him out, bind and gag him, and hand him over expecting to get passage home.
Whether they get it or not is another thing, who knows.
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I took that as Theon wanting to fight to the last and the others being realists, knowing he wouldn't just leave, knocked him over the head so they could all escape. They didn't have much respect for him as a leader, but he was still the son of their leader.

I just don't get the burning and escape of the boys though. So 500 northerners, surrounding the place must have searched Winterfell, even if it had burned. At worst they would have left soldiers to defend it, yet we are led to believe the boys didn't make themselves known and no one was left behind to look after the home of the Northern "King"?

Massive plot hole or something that has to have a very good explanation in the next series (and explain how the boys knew the northerners were not people to talk to).

PermaBanned said:
Lets talk about the last scene. Perhaps something they could have effectively done differently. Personally i think it would have been scarier if we'd seen the whole thing from Sam's perspective, rather than just showing you the whole thing outright. Your imagination is always scarier than what CGI can show you.

But even then, the editing was a bit weird as well. It looks like the White Walker is staring at Sam, but it may not have even been the intention to have them see him at all. Also - who did blow the horn?
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Again I took that as being that he just seemed so pathetic they left him to die in the cold.

The person that blew the horn was from the main camp/a lookout for it? The three collecting stuff to burn wouldn't have travelled very far from the main camp and it's not a great leap to think a lookout above the camp didn't see the whites coming.
 
Squark said:
Got a source on that?

I heard him say that a couple of people know the main plot points of the future books, but I didn't think it was the series producers
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Here's the source.

Do you know the ending?
I know the ending in broad strokes. I don’t know every little twist and turn that will get me there, and I don’t know the ending of every secondary character. But the ending and the main characters, yeah. And [Game of Thrones producers] David Benioff and Dan Weiss know some of that too, which the fans are very worried about in case I get hit by a truck.
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I haven't actually read that source so it could be rife with spoilers, I don't know. Don't read it basically.

Basically if he dies we will have the story continued in film (if HBO keep it till the end) but he is not giving anyone permission to do a written version even if he dies.
 
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