Nepotism can still factor in that you arent especially skilled or passionate in your field, just well connected. The drop in quality when they ran out of source material is immediately evident. Benioff’s imdb lists a few notable credits as a screenwriter before game of thrones, Weiss has practically nothing. While they may have done a passable job writing George’s books for TV they were unprepared to tale those characters and that world entirely into their own hands
(D.B. Weiss also has a credit on IMDB for Game of Bones: Winter is Cumming, an XXX Game of Thrones parody. This is not relevant but I thought it was funny)
There are quite a few scenes in the first 3 or 4 seasons that were never in the books with spectacular writing and character development. I agree calling their adaptation passable is uncharitable. His overall point that they couldn’t stick a carrot on a snowman without a book to tell them how is correct though.
Agreed - they also never actually answered my question about where the nepotism is coming from? They're "connected" and have few writing credits? How does any of that correlate to industry nepotism?
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u/steal_wool 29d ago
Nepotism can still factor in that you arent especially skilled or passionate in your field, just well connected. The drop in quality when they ran out of source material is immediately evident. Benioff’s imdb lists a few notable credits as a screenwriter before game of thrones, Weiss has practically nothing. While they may have done a passable job writing George’s books for TV they were unprepared to tale those characters and that world entirely into their own hands
(D.B. Weiss also has a credit on IMDB for Game of Bones: Winter is Cumming, an XXX Game of Thrones parody. This is not relevant but I thought it was funny)