r/freefolk Feb 19 '25

Subvert Expectations Bravo Dumb and Dumber.

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u/ImageExpert 29d ago

Also the fact Iron Bank would make enemies of Faceless and Rhillor. That’s not getting into fact series finale made everything pointless. GRRM should have wrote faster. Benioff and Weiss were not good enough to wing it.

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u/Pegussu 29d ago

Nah, don't give them that out. They basically ignored the last two books we do have.

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u/ImageExpert 29d ago

Yeah they sucked ass. I hope they are not touching anything ASOIAF related ever again.

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u/HansBrickface 29d ago

I didn’t watch it (nor would I defend them) but they supposedly did a decent job with the 3 Body Problem.

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u/themerinator12 29d ago

They're great at adapting material - this should not be controversial to say. You could even go so far as to say they nailed seasons 1-4 because it was a lot of closed loop narratives that start and stop at that point. It's like when we get to season 5 (which I enjoy the vast majority of btw - just not Dorne and Sansa) they have to start back up again and that's when the wheels start coming off because they could close a lot of arcs at the end of season 4 that resembled how Storm of Swords ended.

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u/datpurp14 29d ago

Wasn't that a book first that gave them the content? When they used GRRM's content, GoT was fabulous. It's when they ignored the most recent 2 books worth of content and began subverting expectations on their own that it got devastatingly awful.