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Welcome to my discussion A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS’ success, and the ways in which I think HBO should learn from the success they’ve found with this show!
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00:00 Lessons from Success
01:01 Writing Is the Key
02:11 Variation In Works
03:14 Your Perspective
03:29 Bringing a Vision
04:25 Dragon-Free
05:29 Common Perspective
06:31 Episode Viewpoints
06:58 Basis and Scope
08:04 Active Experimentation
08:47 Stage and Script
09:05 Consistency
10:02 Half an Hour
10:35 Not Time for a Remake
11:08 Conclusions
I hope they maintain that level in the second season. 🙏🙏🙏
Rip baelor 😢😢
It's almost like story telling and characters trump CGI dragons and marvel quotes.
HOTD isn't as popular becuase uou genuinely can't root for anyone
I’d like to see a video about how you’d do an adaptation of original series (or the first 5 books at least). How you’d structure the series: would some books be split into multiple series and how would I handle the crossover of books 4 and 5. What changes would u make to allow the adaption to work?
I find it fascinating that we're all drooling over this series because they didn't change the original material. We're celebrating the bare minimum 😂 like the friend who says, "he never hit you? He’s a keeper, you just don't find guys like that anymore…"
AKOTSK is a smaller world so it's easier to adapt and this story does not span across several continents like the original series
Don't you want to do the 'What the production company & show runners from 'The Witcher' TV series can learn from HBO now ?
The narrative acceleration and fewer character pov anchors was because they ran out of source material.
this show got some amazing word of mouth, i wouldnt be suprised if the finale hits some record number
When you let people that care about the IP, franchise and lore build on smaller projects. It just works because even 'smaller' can seem big in their details, world building and character development.
AKOTSK has good Characters, House of the Dragon is too self serious with very little personality it all comes down to the writing. HOTD im at the point i only care about the Dragons but that comes down to adaptation, they took the two Female leads and made them boring kind of dumb good guys cut out the only Black character and gave her storyline to a Race swapped White Girl, They did the opposite of what they intended.
They should but won't 😅
Some of those stories don’t warrant a series. I would love to see some special one-offs. Aegon’s Conquest should be a 2 parter with each episode being an hour and a half long. Same with the Blackfyre and Robert’s rebellion
Excuse me, excuse me, but I, sir, did get invested in the DRAGONS, hello!😁🐉🐉🐉
ALL HBO need to take away from AKOTSK is that fans like stories that GRRM Wrote they dont need to change shit to streamline the story, also if this shows anything is that they dont need to dumb down Georges storys for the viewers or to make it appeal to to the wide audience, if the directors and writers put the effort in the fans will like it.
Naw we watch for the dragons
They have SO MUCH materials in the books that are as cool as Dunk and Egg.
Blackfyre rebellion for the starters. Could make it 4 season easily 😭 DO IT HBO.
I’m fine with original stories, it’s a fleshed out world full of history. Pick any chapter in the history book and write a story about PEOPLE. Their hopes and fears and struggles. Not every story has to be about the end of the world; it can be about the world for one person. Part of the reason I liked the Netflix marvel shows more than the recent movies where it’s yet another gigantic planet eating alien. Tell a small, good story.
For a redo on GOT show, would an animation like Invincible be good?
I've been thinking about this for years since Invincible came out.
Could do every character.
The ONLY thing HBO needs to learn is that there is a reason G.R.R.M.'s work is so beloved and that, if you're going to adapt it, you ought to be as faithful as possible, barring any necessary changes needed for TV format.
There is a reason people are still foaming at the mouth for a sequel book fifteen years after the last one. Upsetting and ignoring the writer of your TV show adaptation, bending to the whims and ego of your showrunner and writers' room, who only possess a fraction of the talent and acclaim as George is not the way to go, nor will it lead to success in the long run, as we can clearly see with HOTD.
They should learn: follow the books (character arcs and plot movement) as much as possible
Don’t: Make all game of thrones light hearted and whimsical. It works amazingly for this series but not all series need this. Don’t need a remake of Ned Stark “funny pooping” just because it works for Dunk.
They probably thought the books would have been finished when they started the show in 2011. Season 4 and 5 come along and the excuses begin on why the books aren’t finished. I have been reading the book since the 90’s. Ive been waiting for this book for so long it’s a joke. This is all on George RR Martin not being able to finish something he started!
Ppl should note that AKOTSK is a much much simpler story with very few characters and the scale is small.HOTD is a massive scale- not even comparable and the worst part is that it's from 3rd party sources- so a lot of what happened is untrue or not confirmed…so it makes it difficult to adapt into a TV series
GOT was at it's best when it was small scale moments of characters interacting with one and other. Even in the bad seasons, that one scene when Jaime met Edmure was a glimpse of the other timeline.
"Tits and dragons" was the Trojan horse that convinced people to come it, but HBO thought that was the whole appeal, and then the tits got too expensive lol
Sunfyre acting like Aegon 2's large dog was probably the best impression/connection I'd seen of the dragons. None of the past directors really gave us reasons for emotional connections to them before that. Dunk gave us kind of an Andy Griffith effect. Reducing all of it down to personal stories, interactions, and experiences that make sense to everyday people. Coming up from nothing.
They should just give us Jaehaerys II fr
I think HBO is much more guilty for ruining GoT and HOTD than people think. D&D knew how to make a good series and most importantly, earned the trust of GRRM to make a faithful adaptation and did so for 4 seasons at least.
By the time season 5 camr out. They weren't the only directors working and the show anymore. Which would explain why later seasons of GoT felt more like a parodie of GoT with especially the last seasons basically being a marval movie were everyone says their favorite catchphrases and clap.
I have a feeling that D&D did not direct the Dorne plot and I believe, whoever directed in Dorne, became responsible for the writing of the later seasons of the show.
I think, the only reason Knight worked is because how low stakes it was for HBO. I can imagine the directors had a lot more freedom making their own thing which makss me worried for season 2 after the first seasons success.
Just my random theory of what really happened.
Guarantee they won't learn SHIT
Bro said “it’s near impossible to make a good adaptation of fire and blood”….
Brother we currently are looking at a good adaptation of Fire and Blood
Audiences are honestly so thirsty for something that just follows traditional, good storytelling principles.
My fear is that The Sworn Sword and The Mystery Knight are relatively weak entries following up from The Hedge Knight
Surely George has already told them the answer to this. If you’re adapting a great piece of work, stick as closely as possible to the story written the original author. Don’t get suckered into believing that some rando’s you can hire in Hollywood, and who want to tell a different story, will produce something better
HBO need to learn to stay with the Book Cannon 📖 yes some things can be added as long as they still fit in with the story
This fucking stay true to the books.
and what will happen when they run out of books to adapt?
or just reboot GAME OF THRONES SINCE THE BEGGINING?
Step 1: faithfully adapt George's work
Step 2: make it more homoerotic
Step 3: profit
For a new Ice and Fire adaptation you probably need Geroge to actually finish the story, I don't have a lot of faith for the back end of the story if they attempt to do it again.
I'm assuming Ira Parker and the team are probably nudging Geroge to put some more dunk and egg to page as I don't think there is much room for other projects that will actually feel like ice and fire without some proper source material to guide them
Absence of IDEOLOGY – that is what is great… We have a real "heroes journey" – without the "modern crap"
It was a great adaptation right up to the point where no one mentioned the defenders using tourney lances to counter the accusers war lances
Stop giving the director role to narcissistic nepo babies that want to give their own interpretation rather than being faithful to the source material
Quinn's choice to animate his text ruins every video. Just listen with the screen off for a better experience.
Personally, I’d rather they just make original shows set in Essos than adapt lore. So much of what we love about ASOIAF is the mystery of it. I know we say we want to know the answers to things, but in truth most things are better as a mystery. I’m not very interested in them trying to tie everything into the White Walker prophecy
The problem with any adaptation of Ice&Fire is that it’s either an incomplete story (main series or dunk & egg) or it’s a broad historical account with lots of gaps to fill in (HotD or a hypothetical Aegons Conquest story), so AKotSK is going to run into the GOT problem of overtaking the books they’re based on