When they’re adapting material, they do fairly well. When they have had to create original material it has ranged from great to absolutely dire (the dialogue has certainly taken a nosedive). Not having seen any completely original creation from the two of them, I’m not sure what to expect, but I’m leaning towards…

It’s always been D&D.  HBO would probably let them make this show in perpetuity if they wanted.

How much supervision will they have? And won’t they have a whole lot less leeway to mess with the story?

Soo, think Disney is experiencing any regrets about handing Benioff and Weiss the keys to the Star Wars franchise?

You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.

The White Waddlers are coming! 

Poor Sand Snakes. Buried alive under the rubble of the Red Keep. 

So... a megalomaniacal young woman with a family history of incest-bred insanity who bases her right to rule on that fact that her insane father was once king recruits an army of pillagers and rapists, and another army of programmed-from-childhood killing machines (each of whom has personally murdered an infant as…

“I have no idea how you can look at this show and think that people didn’t work their asses off making it.”

I believe they are referring strictly to the showrunners and writers slacking. They go on to complement the acting and effects efforts.

I guess it kind of depends after all the Freys got Arya’d did someone let him out of his cell or did they forget about him?

I’ve been trying to put into words all week how I feel about the last episode, and the last two seasons and I think you just articulated it for me. Thanks!

“Respect is how the young keep us at a distance, so we don’t remind them of an unpleasant truth.... Nothing lasts.”

Poor Edmure  

As a joke, it’s hilarious.

About Laurence’s question:

I don’t think plot points like Dany’s descent into madness were pulled out of the showrunners’ asses for shock value.

Read the column again. I’m sure some people are angry because they wanted Daenerys to be the good guy and win the game, but all the serious criticism i’ve read is about the execution, not the character turn per se.

“The Iron Throne is the friends we made along the way!”

This would have been a very simple and elegant solution. It is amazing that the writers of this huge critically acclaimed HBO show were not able to come up with something like this.