There wasn't any kind of Friends situation where the cast was begging for a bigger check or they were gonna scramble

HBO didn't want to reconfigure out how they were going to program their channel any time soon

All the actors seemed to genuinely enjoy what they were doing with this show, and most of them built their name on this show

But Benioff and Weiss insisted that it end, strong-armed HBO into letting them end it this way, and noooobody wondered why

Meanwhile, they got a Slaves Still Matter and Star Wars series on deck, counting checks off GRR Martin's work that propped them up for five seasons and just hand-waving the show they took to the top of the charts in after the episode vignettes like show not tell is more of a house tagline than a truth of good stories.

It's WILD that for whatever reason, on this show of all shows, they got to call that shot and take it to this extreme. This isn't Mad Men toiling away as an intellectual's fever dream for seven seasons, this is a modern soap opera with dragons and dialogue and mythology that could sustain DECADES of television, really. But nah, we done here.


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