I definitely soured on HBO's Thrones series after the wreck of Season 8 (and Season 7 didn't exactly hit it out of the park either). That would be hard to get past no matter what.
But I think I've overdosed on A Song of Ice and Fire in general and I can't get back into it. I read all the books (most twice), watched every season of the show, bought and read that atlas/history thing where GRRM named some of the characters after muppets, read the Dunk and Egg novellas, and embarrassingly spent years listening to two (two!) podcasts on the books. Nothing can live up to that kind of over-saturation. Shit, I'm not even interested in clicking on that TRAILER. The idea of watching it makes me queasy.
I tell myself that I'll still read Winds of Winter when and if it's finally released, but I probably won't. I read Dance With Dragons years ago and don't remember any of it. I'm sure not going to invest the time to reread the series, and whatever else it does, the series requires and rewards close reading. Trying to squint my way through the WoW chapters that George released online didn't exactly fill me with excitement either.
So definitely not going to watch the show, particularly since we'd need to resubscribe to HBO to do it. I'm genuinely not being cynical when I say I don't imagine it could be very good: the series fell apart when it went past the novels in the timeline and House of Dragons will have the same lack of solid source material. More, prequels are just rough to begin with. We already know how the story ends.
I largely feel the same. I don't know if I can re-read Feast or Dance at this point. Going into Winds (should it ever release) cold might not be ideal but I think it beats re-reading that unwieldy slog.
What's most surprising to me about GoT falling apart is how bad the dialog got. Even when the showrunners had the books as an outline, many of the scenes were either modified heavily or just invented. But for the most part, it was clever and interesting. When Season 7 rolled around (and part of Season 6), it's like they forgot what had made them successful in the first place and just tripled down on spectacle.
I’m in the same boat. I rewatched the entire series a couple months ago and have no gas in the tank for anything GoT. I couldn’t even finish the last episode of season 8. Didn’t even start it. I think the prequel series will do good-ish but never reach the heights of the first several seasons. Not at all.
I definitely soured on HBO's Thrones series after the wreck of Season 8 (and Season 7 didn't exactly hit it out of the park either). That would be hard to get past no matter what.
But I think I've overdosed on A Song of Ice and Fire in general and I can't get back into it. I read all the books (most twice), watched every season of the show, bought and read that atlas/history thing where GRRM named some of the characters after muppets, read the Dunk and Egg novellas, and embarrassingly spent years listening to two (two!) podcasts on the books. Nothing can live up to that kind of over-saturation. Shit, I'm not even interested in clicking on that TRAILER. The idea of watching it makes me queasy.
I tell myself that I'll still read Winds of Winter when and if it's finally released, but I probably won't. I read Dance With Dragons years ago and don't remember any of it. I'm sure not going to invest the time to reread the series, and whatever else it does, the series requires and rewards close reading. Trying to squint my way through the WoW chapters that George released online didn't exactly fill me with excitement either.
So definitely not going to watch the show, particularly since we'd need to resubscribe to HBO to do it. I'm genuinely not being cynical when I say I don't imagine it could be very good: the series fell apart when it went past the novels in the timeline and House of Dragons will have the same lack of solid source material. More, prequels are just rough to begin with. We already know how the story ends.
I largely feel the same. I don't know if I can re-read Feast or Dance at this point. Going into Winds (should it ever release) cold might not be ideal but I think it beats re-reading that unwieldy slog.
Agree with everything above.
What's most surprising to me about GoT falling apart is how bad the dialog got. Even when the showrunners had the books as an outline, many of the scenes were either modified heavily or just invented. But for the most part, it was clever and interesting. When Season 7 rolled around (and part of Season 6), it's like they forgot what had made them successful in the first place and just tripled down on spectacle.
I’m in the same boat. I rewatched the entire series a couple months ago and have no gas in the tank for anything GoT. I couldn’t even finish the last episode of season 8. Didn’t even start it. I think the prequel series will do good-ish but never reach the heights of the first several seasons. Not at all.
Definitely not. Unless it defies all expectations, which I sincerely doubt.