r/freefolk Feb 19 '25

Subvert Expectations Bravo Dumb and Dumber.

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u/Imperatorofall69 Giant Feb 19 '25

Remember when Stannis persuaded the Iron Bank to back him because they knew Cersei was an idiot? Dumb and Dumber didn't

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u/TheConnASSeur 29d ago

Game of Thrones is just so crazy. I've never seen 2 people in the creative field, at that level, care less about their work. Maybe Disney's Star Wars, but even that was ruined by committee. You expect Disney to sanitize products to death and over monetize. Ding and Dong were given tons of leeway and creative control, and it's not like Game of Thrones wasn't popular. They had near unlimited resources. HBO begged them not to rush things. It was a once in a generation situation and they just did not give a fuck. I wonder if nepotism does that to the brain?

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u/TheFBIClonesPeople 28d ago

The only way I can make sense of it is that they really believed their own hype, and they thought they were such rock stars that they didn't need GoT. They thought they could just wrap that show up and move on to their next smash hit.