Man Gives Insightful Reasoning Why Season 8 Of Game Of Thrones Feels Different (WITHOUT Spoilers!)

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May 13, 2019 2:30 PM EDT

Do you feel like Season 8 of Game of Thrones is a completely different show from when it first aired? You're not alone. Twitter user, Daniel Silvermint, did some thinking and came up with what could be the actual reason as to why it feels that way.

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    Text - l Verizon 4:41 PM 27% Thread Daniel Silvermint @DSilvermint Want to know why Game of Thrones *feels* so different now? I think I can explain. Without spoilers. /1 #GameofThrones #GoT #WritingCommunity 1:13 PM 5/7/19 Twitter for iPhone 5,597 Retweets 11.6K Likes Daniel Silvermint @DSilvermint 5d Replying to @DSilvermint It has to do with the behind-the-scenes process of plotters vs. pantsers. If you're not familiar with the distinction, plotters Tweet your reply
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    Text - ll Verizon 4:41 PM 27% Daniel Silvermint @DSilvermint 5d Replying to @DSilvermint It has to do with the behind-the-scenes process of plotters vs. pantsers. If you're not familiar with the distinction, plotters create a fairly detailed outline before they commit a single word to the page. / 2 24 tI42 848 Daniel Silvermint @DSilvermint 5d Pantsers discover the story as they write it, often treating the first draft like one big elaborate outline. Neither approach is 'right' - it's just a way
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    Text - ll Verizon 4:41 PM 27% Daniel Silvermint @DSilvermint 5d Pantsers have an easier time writing realistic characters, because they generate the plot by asking themselves what this fully-realized person would do or think next in the dramatic situation the writer has dropped them in. /5 L36 864 Daniel Silvermint @DSilvermint 5d making it up as But because pantsers are they go along (hence the name: they're flying by the seat of their pants), they're prone to meandering plots and can struggle
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    Text - II Verizon 4:41 PM 27% Daniel Silvermint @DSilvermint 5d Well, GRRM is one of the most epic pantsers around. He talks about writing like cultivating a garden. He plants character seeds and carefully lets them grow and grow. /8 24 1,125 L1.41 Daniel Silvermint @DSilvermint 5d That's why every plot point and fair-in- hindsight surprise landed with such devastating weight: everything that happened to these characters happened because of their past choices. But it's also the reason why the na
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    Text - II Verizon 4:41 PM 27% Which meant planting watching those grow. And sudenly his garden was overgrown, and hard to prune without abrupt or forced resolutions. He had no choice but to more seeds, andi follow each and every one of those plot threads, matter to the story. /11 even when they didn't really L120 3 924 Daniel Silvermint @DSilvermint 5d And now that the plants were fully in control, he struggled to get some of the characters that had grown one way to go where they needed to be fo
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    Text - ll Verizon 4:42 PM 27% Daniel Silvermint @DSilvermint 5d So the books the showrunners were adapting assume the show suffered because they ran out. What now? People didn't have GRRM's rich material to draw on anymore, as if the problem was that he's simply better at generating new plots than they are. But that's not what happened. /14 3 781 L31 Daniel Silvermint @DSilvermint 5d For a season or two, the showrunners actually tried to take over management of GRRM's sprawling garden, with unde
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    Text - O 27% OT GRRM's sprawling garden, with. il Verizon 4:42 PM understandably mixed results. When that didn't work, they shifted their focus to trying to bring this huge beast in for a landing. /15 3 736 LI20 Daniel Silvermint @DSilvermint 5d They gave themselves a fixed endpoint - 13 episodes to the finale, and no more - and set about reverse-engineering the rest of the story they wanted to tell. You see, I think the showrunners are not only plotters, they're ending-focused plotters by desig
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    Text - l Verizon 4:42 PM 27% Daniel Silvermint @DSilvermint 5d What big moments did they want to deliver? Where should the characters end up? What did they think we, the audience,wanted to see on screen before the show came to an end? It was a Game of Thrones bucket list. /18 3 L26 820 Daniel Silvermint @DSilvermint 5d And once they had that list, it was time to connect the dots to make it all happen. So they started maneuvering the characters into the emotional and literal places they needed to
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    Text - ll Verizon 4:42 PM 27% Daniel Silvermint @DSilvermint 5d Where once the characters authored now they their own, terrible destinies, were forced to take uncharacteristic actions and make uncharacteristically bad decisions so the necessary plot points could happen and the appropriate stakes could be felt. /21 4 1,584 LI 126 Daniel Silvermint @DSilvermint 5d Organic developments gave way to contrivance. Naturally-paced character arcs were rushed. Living plants became puppets of the plot. The
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    Text - l Verizon 4:42 PM 27% 94 t50 V1,151 Daniel Silvermint @DSilvermint 5d There's a reason writers have hauntedi eyes and always seem like they need a hug. Give everyone a break. But: the shift in approach did have consequences. /24 L150 1,039 1 Daniel Silvermint @DSilvermint 5d Is pantsing better than plotting? No. And this has nothing to do with which approach is 'right', anyway. It's about the approach changing in the third act. That's the sort of thing feel happening, their finger an audi
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    Text - ll Verizon 4:42 PM 26% But to be satisfying, it matters how we get there, too. Treating the journey as equally important is how you get endings that feel earned. And it's how characters keep feeling real the whole way through, though they're completing some writer has chosen for them. /27 even arcs 9 1 917 147 Daniel Silvermint @DSilvermint 5d so much emphasis on ending, the showrunners changed the nature of the story they were meaning the original story and the original characters aren't
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    Text - il Verizon 70 26% 4:42 PM gettng an enumIg. Mien SURStituleS are./28 1,006 t278 3 Daniel Silvermint @DSilvermint 5d That's why no amount of spectacle or fan service can make this ending as satisfying as it should be. Resolutions invite us to consider the story where it all started, where it all ended up. And we can feel the discontinuity in this a whole; as one. /29 1,158 L164 Daniel Silvermint @DSilvermint 5d Well that ended up being a long thread. So here's a picture of a very nice dog.
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