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<blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 7608830" data-attributes="member: 12731"><p>"another series might be a terrible idea" - they wouldn't use D&D.</p><p></p><p>"There's a whole world to explore that, under the guidance of GRRM" - that guidance isn't strong enough to help bad writers, just ask D&D. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Look, the simple fact is that lightning seldom strikes twice. The best thing would be to get a storyline and ensemble cast just as good as GoT - but that has nothing to do with Westeros, and in fact, placing it there only burdens it with restrictions it simply won't face in a fresh world.</p><p></p><p>Settling for the GoT universe always meant settling for second best. Street urchins of King's Landing. Hot Pie baking hot pies. Tormund travelling south to find "the big woman". Jon travelling north to, I dunno, bone Ygritte's twin sister. Sam and Gilly raising their children much like how Sam and Rose ended the Lord of the Rings. And so on.</p><p></p><p>Pitches like "Arya goes west or "a thousand years ago" are just trying to have the cake and eat it too. They say they're set in Westeros just to draw in the audience, but then really aren't.</p><p></p><p>That to me is worse, not better. </p><p></p><p>The only compelling reason for me to have the show set in Westeros is if they, by some extraordinary circumstance, come up with a new cool storyline involving the Westeros we know and love. For instance the second season Rome storyline when our hero becomes a Thieves Guild leader - something like that could easily take place in the alleyways (and brothels, can't have a show without nekkid wimmin) of King's Landing; with the events of the big movers and shakers (the Kings and Queens, the Spiders and Maesters) as just a backdrop. Then it could slowly reveal what those moves and shakes are about, and reveal it's set maybe 50 years after GoT (so the King is more Robert than... well, you know who).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CapnZapp, post: 7608830, member: 12731"] "another series might be a terrible idea" - they wouldn't use D&D. "There's a whole world to explore that, under the guidance of GRRM" - that guidance isn't strong enough to help bad writers, just ask D&D. Look, the simple fact is that lightning seldom strikes twice. The best thing would be to get a storyline and ensemble cast just as good as GoT - but that has nothing to do with Westeros, and in fact, placing it there only burdens it with restrictions it simply won't face in a fresh world. Settling for the GoT universe always meant settling for second best. Street urchins of King's Landing. Hot Pie baking hot pies. Tormund travelling south to find "the big woman". Jon travelling north to, I dunno, bone Ygritte's twin sister. Sam and Gilly raising their children much like how Sam and Rose ended the Lord of the Rings. And so on. Pitches like "Arya goes west or "a thousand years ago" are just trying to have the cake and eat it too. They say they're set in Westeros just to draw in the audience, but then really aren't. That to me is worse, not better. The only compelling reason for me to have the show set in Westeros is if they, by some extraordinary circumstance, come up with a new cool storyline involving the Westeros we know and love. For instance the second season Rome storyline when our hero becomes a Thieves Guild leader - something like that could easily take place in the alleyways (and brothels, can't have a show without nekkid wimmin) of King's Landing; with the events of the big movers and shakers (the Kings and Queens, the Spiders and Maesters) as just a backdrop. Then it could slowly reveal what those moves and shakes are about, and reveal it's set maybe 50 years after GoT (so the King is more Robert than... well, you know who). [/QUOTE]
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