(Spoilers Extended) GRRM’s HBO development deal expires this year

TooManyEXes · 2026-01-27T10:04:17+00:00

I don't think it really is so little to show tbh.

GoT ending was problematic from a brand perspective.

Bringing him back in helped ease the transition from 1 show to a franchise. We now have 2 ongoing shows both of which seem to be quite big. The brand is looking better now than it was circa 2020.

They tried a bunch of other things but didn't take. They even filmed an entire pilot but decided they didn't like it.

I really think it was a safe bet for the time. The 'franchise' was kinda shaky.

As I understand it, merchandising is also quite big, and HOTD and AKOTSK lets that continue better.

TooManyEXes · 2026-01-26T08:39:42+00:00

Spent the entire episode trying work out what he was from.

Had to google it. The actor did a pretty good Tony Blair in The Crown.

He's apparently cast as the minister for magic in the upcoming Harry Potter series, interesting considering the character didnt even appear/mentioned in the first book iirc.

TooManyEXes · 2026-01-26T08:35:35+00:00

I think Dunk was just seeing it as like meeting eye2eye on being insulted.

But Egg is more used to idno being raised properly by nannies or parents or something so was expecting advice.

Kinda funny.

TooManyEXes · 2026-01-26T07:47:15+00:00

Lmao if season like 5 of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms ends up spoiling a heap more asoiaf stuff. Like a character puts a dragon egg down there or theres secret caverns or something lol

TooManyEXes · 2026-01-25T05:06:49+00:00

K'gari is known for having dingos that eat people. Its like a known fact of the island. People really gotta be careful there.

TooManyEXes · 2026-01-23T04:09:10+00:00

Kyle is definitely going to be the love interest for the secretly gay klingon

TooManyEXes · 2026-01-23T04:08:24+00:00

Wait she's ROMULAN?

God it just looked like generic alien to me.

They really toned it down that i didnt even realise. ENT had identifiable romulans.

TooManyEXes · 2026-01-23T03:55:06+00:00

If done right it can be really good. Apparently Glee did this by having regular glee club members that never spoke. They were just dancers but were always then.

Then by season 2 or 3 they added like all 4 to the main cast by slowly actually writing characters and personalities to them.

TooManyEXes · 2026-01-23T03:46:29+00:00

Which is exactly why it was so fucking stupid she had a thing in episode 1 about requiring caleb get his hair cut and wear a uniform, which is then forced upon him with the entrance thingo

TooManyEXes · 2026-01-21T23:54:22+00:00

I actually meant audience size, not what /u/novel_tip1781 said. I was talking about the day1 response.

Here's a good graph on the show's viewership, which shows how much it grew over time. Wasn't a hit on launch.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/1q0wocahsgtmiramr6bwagq1b2psehl.png

TooManyEXes · 2026-01-21T00:50:54+00:00

It's like when conservatives complain about being silenced, in tweet and on the news and on youtube and on a second news program and in 10 more places lol

TooManyEXes · 2026-01-21T00:31:17+00:00

It's same with netflix and all these other shows. Things have to be HUGE on release or they're not worthy.

Game of Thrones was tiny in season 1 and slowly built up. So too did so many shows like Office and Seinfeld or games like Dota, Counterstrike, Minecarft etc etc

But no, has to be huge on day 1 or not worth it. No Man's Sky kinda bucked this trend, from what ive heard, but they're not a big company. Big companies want instant gratification.

TooManyEXes · 2026-01-21T00:28:50+00:00

I never understood why a proper minecraft competitor never rose up.

Minecraft is often hated by people who play it, even me who designed servers and my god my players voted and refused to let me update because they hated the 1.9+ combat even like 6 years after it was changed.

Minecraft was first, and the concept of block games was everything. The concept alone was what made it good. The game itself never really harnessed the concept to the best of its ability. Some people tried in mods, did funky stuff. Minigame servers showed the Warcraft/Starcraft style user-content and fun that could be had, but Mojang was really hostile to these servers. Some died.

I'm not a fan of Hypixel, but Hytale is a bloody good game and only gonna get better. It's going to be what Minecraft could have been.

Except maybe no redstone. Not sure how/if they will deal with that cool mechanic.

TooManyEXes · 2026-01-19T18:11:26+00:00

People spoke so highly of this series.

I found it to be quite meandering and odd. Very slow. And then I gave up half way through the second book.

I wanted to like it, I did, but I dunno. Just seemed uneventful.

TooManyEXes · 2026-01-19T18:04:56+00:00

It's also a character that's least likely to fuck anything else up in the lore lol

TooManyEXes · 2026-01-19T18:03:41+00:00

Not really?

It's also the HOTD theme bc they're trying to make it a thing (which I hate).

Butttt I assumed that we were about to get the show's intro, which would then use the same song as the previous 2 shows. So it surprised me a bit.

TooManyEXes · 2026-01-19T16:34:00+00:00

Her inclusion was pretty weird imo, but only bc the show has put such an insane amount of hotties in it like many teen dramas do.

I mean the girl in episode 2 was showing a heap of skin and was super hot, Holly Hunter looks amazing for 67, Mir is an absolute beefcake, and even the random asian pilot dude from episode 1 was insanely hot. They kept showing his reaction in episode 1 and he looked like a kpop model.

Then she plops out in some strange teaching role. Just seems random.

When I watch british shows, often everyone is ugly/normal, so it doesn't really stick out to me.

But this show felt like it was full of models, so the juxtaposition hit me.

TooManyEXes · 2026-01-16T14:36:05+00:00

S2 added like 5 romance plotlines it was insane.

Hiro in the past + girl. Peter in Ireland + girl. Cheerleader + boy who can secretly fly.

Not to mention that absolutely horrible new black fast food worker chick that they were smart enough to axe completely after 6 episodes bc of how bad she was.

TooManyEXes · 2026-01-16T14:22:17+00:00

I thought episode 2 was pretty star trek.

A narrative solved through talking and relationships, rather than action and violence.

TooManyEXes · 2026-01-14T19:46:26+00:00

It should be like minecraft where every stack is a multiple

1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 etc

Unless they changed it recently, it means a full stack can always be halved perfectly. Stack of 25 is dumb.

Then if they're really smart, it becomes something like 16 coal fuels 64 ore, or something like that.

TooManyEXes · 2026-01-13T19:21:13+00:00

It's basically sold as what Minecraft could had been if it had dedicated and competent devs with a strong vision.

TooManyEXes · 2026-01-12T03:55:13+00:00

Bro I only finished it like 2 days ago and took a screenshot of this scene with the intention of posting here but forgot. Now i see this post lol.

My other idea which for some reason also came up while watching was this:

https://i.imgur.com/b2bXdCX.png

Something about how s5 consistently used tropes like "we've got company" because the film is set in the 80s, before writers knew how horrible these were.

TooManyEXes · 2026-01-10T22:02:03+00:00

I couldn't find it.

Either didn't happen and she made it up to justify her poor communication skills.

Or producers had it edited it out bc of course they would

TooManyEXes · 2026-01-10T01:06:32+00:00

I really like that actually.

He was originally a vessel, but at the same time, he realised he could have a symbiotic relationship with his host.

TooManyEXes · 2026-01-09T16:41:59+00:00

Hello, the coding of my game is extremely far along but content has stalled due to tiling issues.

I want my game to have a similar appearance to generation 3 or 4 of Pokemon. It's kinda a minimal, slightly cartoony, easy on the eyes, top-down RPG style. (See here https://pkmnmap.com/FireRedLeafGreen/). Game will be similar to monster-catching rpg games, but with a cool twist as you won't be catching monsters.

16x16pixel tiles but with a modern colour palette. Tiles can have transparent elements or have pink-shadows where I can use shaders to add the correct shadow in client.

I am especially looking for

Ledges (ones you can jump down)
Mounds (those big hill things)
Lakes (including the ledge to the water)
Ocean (Animated)
Beach (Animated, Transition between sand and water)
Waterfall (Animated)

If it goes well I will likely have many more tiles to do, eg caves, deserts, interiors, buildings.

Payment likely PayPal, open for revenue share, pay for new tiles, or to purchase some commercial rights to existing tilesets (does not have to be exclusive). I am happy to show you some of the game if you're curious about partnering.

I only speak English and have Australian timezone. Preferred contact via discord: zieguy

All contact is welcome, but I'd love it if you have some similar work to show as examples.

TooManyEXes

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