Game of Thrones Season 7 Discussion [SPOILERS WITHIN]

[FatAndFaithless]

You act like you already know the ending, and that the ending of the show will be vastly different than the books.  There might be a few different characters alive/dead, but GRRM has told the show runners all the major story points and the ending.

Yeah, that's nice. But you act like you know how this went on. There are billion dollar contracts at stake here, which we haven't seen. Who knows what kind of clauses the network has in there, in order to have influence over the plot of the show, in order to suit their massive audience - especially in case GRRM doesn't keep up with his publishing schedule, which he didn't? 

Call me cynical, but there's too much at stake and there are too many lawyers involved, for this whole thing to have been resolved by GRRM having a little chat with Benioff and Weiss, about how he wants the show to end.

Maybe GRRM planned for this ending, or another but since HBO is paying the bills and someone else is doing the writing work - it's not unthinkable, that Martin would "take some notes", regarding keeping popular characters alive, or making the attractive protagonists end up together and having Royal Babies, on the account that this is the kind of nonsense soap-opera audiences can't get enough of. And if the author did in fact form, or adjust his plans for the ending of the yet unwritten/unpublished books, based on whatever HBO's focus groups decided would be the most acceptable for the largest number of viewers - we may never know. Especially, that if the show ends the story first, in one particular way, it's unlikely that GRRM will end the books completely differently, whatever his original plans might have (or have not) been.

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I think Daenerys should marry Theon. Then, she and Misande could giggle over their boyfriends' mutilated junk.

Bolded mine.  I mean, yeah, you're being supremely cynical.  I enjoyed the season, even with its flaws, and I trust that GRRM gave enough information to D&D about the ending of the series that it'll be something satisfying - even if it's (as GRRM described) bittersweet.  It seems like you don't like a single thing about the show anymore, from your posts, why are you still watching it if it's turned into cliche fantasy trash? Unless you just enjoy hating it, which makes you even more of a cynic.