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[–] MimicJar 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I knew they were involved, but I was surprised to see their name dropped in the article. I assumed they would try to downplay their involvement so I checked the article to be sure.

I appreciate the honesty, but no thank you.

[–] CptEnder 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The main trailer has "from the creators of Game of Thrones" so yeah they're doubling down on the D&D.

I meannnn. They had to finish an unfinished story, and they def fucked it up. But they also made some of the best television I've seen S1-5 based off GRRMs work. I'm not giving them a pass but holy fuck that gamble of him having an ending by S9 wasn't like out of the realm of possibilities, I kinda also blame GRRM.

That being said I'm definitely waiting for large scale reviews and friend suggestions on this one. The trailer did look promising though.

[–] MimicJar 13 points 9 months ago

It's fair for GRRM to share some of the blame, but any Internet commenter, who can't write for shit (see me), could have written a better ending.

To me it seemed like they were bored and wanted to move on. They had Star Wars/Disney lined up. They had Netflix (possibly this thing) lined up. Conceptually I get it. They'd worked on Game of Thrones for years, it was time to move on.

But they fucked up bad. Real bad.

Obviously I hope they've learned and are better now, but I'm not betting on it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And the Three Body series is finished as far as I know.

I mean, that ending had to have been the final ending right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean, he could pretty easily continue it. It'd just move to higher dimensional viewpoints. Or become Flatworld.

[–] Blue_Morpho 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It ends with the universe rebooting so...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yes, with humans walking into the new universe, after the novels established that aliens had been eradicating dimensions from reality as a form of WMD.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago