{"id":13949,"date":"2019-05-19T21:34:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T03:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/?p=13949"},"modified":"2019-05-19T21:34:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T03:34:48","slug":"the-game-of-thrones-insight-youve-all-been-waiting-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2019\/05\/the-game-of-thrones-insight-youve-all-been-waiting-for.html","title":{"rendered":"The Game of Thrones insight you’ve all been waiting for"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Head_of_Raven.jpg; Stephencdickson [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0)]<\/figcaption><\/figure>Plus, a link and three questions.<\/p>\n

First, the insight:<\/p>\n

GOT is a massive spectacle.\u00a0 It\u2019s incredible, the locations, the CGI, the actual filming, the costuming.\u00a0 If I could wear GOT clothing on a daily basis, I might be more motivated to shed the extra weight.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s got a budget that can pay for all that not only because of the HBO viewership but the DVD\/streaming sales and the licensing overseas.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s one limit that HBO, the showrunners, and the show\u2019s fans bump up against:\u00a0 the quality of the writing, and the ability to craft a storyline from week to week, and season to season, that effectively builds from one event to the next and, in particular, ties everything up in its conclusion, is not something that a bigger budget can create more success with.<\/p>\n

The series itself was based off of the George R.R. Martin series, A Song of Ice and Fire<\/em>, the fifth book of which was published the year that the HBO series premiered, in 2011.\u00a0 Those five books served as source material for the first five seasons of the television show, with the remaining three seasons based on plot outlines from Martin\u2019s planned remaining books, but with showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss writing most of the episodes.\u00a0 (Yes, I\u2019m getting this off of Wikipedia<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Which means that, in the end, whenever an event or a character\u2019s decision or a highly improbable arrow hitting its target or unanticipated deaths or unanticipated survivals or plot points that seem to be a complete waste of time cause you to think:\u00a0 \u201cthat was a terrible episode!\u201d my sense is that the over-the-top-ness of everything else about the show misleads us into thinking that the writing will be just as extraordinary, when that\u2019s not actually a realistic expectation.<\/p>\n

Second, the link:\u00a0 it\u2019s from Wired.com<\/a> but I first came across it as a twitter thread and talks about the writing of GOT in terms of pantsers (authors who \u201cfly by the seat of their pants\u201d by creating richly-detailed characters and then figuratively letting the characters they\u2019ve created drive the story) and plotters (who create a detailed outline plotting out the story).<\/p>\n

Third, the questions:<\/p>\n

What happened to Gendry?<\/p>\n

What happened to Gilly?<\/p>\n

Why were the Wildings just sort of hanging out at Castle Black?<\/p>\n

As to the ending itself, it was adequate enough.\u00a0 The fates of two of the Stark children seemed suitable, but Arya\u2019s and Bran\u2019s fates didn\u2019t have that sort of natural \u201cof course, in hindsight it had to turn out that way\u201d feel to them.<\/p>\n

What did you think?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Plus, a link and three questions. First, the insight: GOT is a massive spectacle.\u00a0 It\u2019s incredible, the locations, the CGI, the actual filming, the costuming.\u00a0 If I could wear GOT clothing on a daily basis, I might be more motivated to shed the extra weight. It\u2019s got a budget that can pay for all that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[795],"class_list":["post-13949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-game-of-thrones"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Game of Thrones insight you've all been waiting for<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Plus, a link and three questions. 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