*Daenerys voice* WHERE ARE MY SHOWRUNNERS?!?!? On Wednesday, HBO announced a wee change to the Friday Game of Thrones panel at San Diego Comic-Con: David Benioff and D.B. Weiss won’t be attending after all.
Despite fan speculation that this may have something to do with the reaction to a certain series finale, io9 reports that “production and scheduling conflicts” are behind D&D’s absence. (The pair have, after all, been given the reins to at least one of the next Star Wars movies.)
They’re not the only GOT peeps who will be missed. According to io9, Nathalie Emmanuel (Missandei), Iain Glen (Jorah Mormont), and director Miguel Sapochnik won’t be showing up either.
That means fans gathering in Hall H on Friday evening will be joined by Maisie Williams (Arya Stark), Jacob Anderson (Grey Worm), Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister), Isaac Hempstead Wright (Bran Stark), John Bradley West (Samwell Tarly), Liam Cunningham (Ser Davos), and Conleth Hill (Varys) for a Q&A session about the controversial final season.
The #GoTSDCC panel taking place Friday, 7/19 at 5:30PM in Hall H will now consist of panelists @Maisie_Williams, @RaleighRitchie, @nikolajcw, @isaac_h_wright, @johnbradleywest, @liamcunningham1 & Conleth Hill.
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Social media is, understandably, abuzz about the last-minute pull-out, with r/freefolk in particular being inundated with memes about the change–namely D&D “missing their own trial”–along with questions about fan participation, like where to boo D&D if not at SDCC. (Just a friendly reminder: Please do not harass the showrunners, in general, regardless of location.)
What would you ask D&D if they were there?
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I hate to say it, but I’m not that surprised. A lot of fans are still upset with the last season. GRRM did say it would have “a bittersweet ending.” We’ll just have to wait for the last 2 books and find out how it’ll end.
I think at this point, I’m not interested in hearing what D&D have to say. I’m a lifelong Star Wars fan but I have no desire to see their take on it. More time hearing from Maisie Williams and Co sounds like a good deal to me.
Yeah, they know they’d get tarred and feathered if they showed their faces there.
@@@@@ 2: Of course there are the “Khaleesi or bust” bunch, but the main problem there is that the rushed last season failed big time at storytelling.
Jon and Daenerys big last scene was beautiful and heartbreaking, but the arch to get there was basically nonexistent. Daenerys went from “fierce” to “cuckoo B” in just one episode, got punished, the end.
And don’t get me started on King “The Greatest Story Ever Told” Bran, or on why Jon wasn’t summarily executed by Suddenly Bloodthirsty Grey Worm.
ETA: Despite all, I confess that I still have a big crush on D Benioff.
“Why did you omit the scene where Sansa aborts Ramsay’s rape-begotten offspring?”
I just can’t see how they didn’t go there. Ramsay himself foreshadowed it with his almost last words: “You can’t kill me, I’m part of you now.”
In a better, truer world–the Platonic ideal of GoT, if you will– Sansa finally reunites with her sister when Arya returns to Winterfell just in time to assist with the grisly procedure. Afterwards, Sansa (defiant through a haze of anguish): “You’re no part of me!”
Don’t ask me how I know. I just do.
@@@@@ 6: LOL
It does make sense, though.
@@@@@ 2: “We’ll just have to wait for the last 2 books and find out how it’ll end.”
I waited 24 years for some kind of resolution (which we got, kind of, thanks to D&D) and we can safely assume that the last book may never come out, or that it will come out when we are all dead, written by Brandon Sanderson’s granddaughter, Ursula Sanderson.
@8. Ashgrove: Agreed. You can’t force art (if you presume it’s art and not just entertainment), but c’mon. There’s almost no interest left in the barrel. (Also throw in Rothfuss here.)
@@@@@ 9: Rothfuss too? Gosh, now I’m glad that I never started reading the Kingkiller Chronicles.
I’m so burned out thanks to GRRM, I haven’t even started Pullman’s Book of Dust or Tad William’s The Last King of Osten Ard.