History Series / GameOfThrones

''Game of Thrones'' quickly became a worldwide cultural phenomenon, with a record viewership on HBO. The series was praised for its acting, characters, and production values, but also criticized by its frequent use of nudity and violence. The final season received criticism for its condensed story and creative decisions, with many critics and fans considering it a disappointing conclusion. Despite this, the series has won numerous awards since it debuted, including 59 Primetime Emmy Awards out of 161 nominations, the most by a drama series, and Outstanding Drama Series for the last four seasons. Many critics and publications also named ''Game of Thrones'' in lists of the best TV series of the decade.

The series was adapted for television by screenwriters Creator/DavidBenioff and Creator/DBWeiss, who jokingly described it as "''Series/TheSopranos'' [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Middle-earth]]". Each season's arc was meant to line up with its corresponding book. However, this ultimately only worked for the first two seasons, as ''Literature/AStormOfSwords'' ([[DoorStopper which in pagecount equals]] ''[[DoorStopper the entirety]]'' [[DoorStopper of the]] ''Lord of the Rings'' trilogy) was eventually split into two seasons, with ''Literature/AFeastForCrows'' bleeding into both Seasons 4 and 5. Martin himself wrote an episode in each of the show's first four seasons. Starting with the sixth season, the show [[OvertookTheManga overtook the books]], as Martin has yet to publish the sixth novel, ''The Winds Of Winter''. Benioff & Weiss were informed by Martin of the basic plotline of how the saga ends when writing the remaining seasons.

''Game of Thrones'' became a worldwide cultural phenomenon, with a record viewership on HBO. The series was praised by critics for its acting, characters, and production values, but also criticized by its frequent use of nudity and violence. The final season received significant criticism for its condensed story and creative decisions, with many considering it a disappointing conclusion. Despite this, the series has won numerous awards since it debuted, including 59 Primetime Emmy Awards out of 161 nominations, the most by a drama series, and Outstanding Drama Series for the last four seasons. Many critics and publications also named ''Game of Thrones'' in lists of the best TV series of the decade.

''Game of Thrones'' is an 8-season {{Creator/HBO}} series based on Creator/GeorgeRRMartin's [[{{Doorstopper}} epic]] fantasy series ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', which Martin began publishing in 1996. It started in April 2011 and wrapped up in May 2019.

->''"When you play the [[TitleDrop game of thrones]], you win or you die. There is no middle ground."''

''Game of Thrones'' has become a worldwide cultural phenomenon, with a record viewership on HBO. The series was praised by critics for its acting, characters, and production values, but also criticized by its frequent use of nudity and violence. The final season received significant criticism for its condensed story and creative decisions, with many considering it a disappointing conclusion. Despite this, the series has won numerous awards since it debuted, including 59 Primetime Emmy Awards out of 161 nominations, the most by a drama series, and Outstanding Drama Series for the last four seasons. Many critics and publications also named ''Game of Thrones'' in lists of the best TV series of the decade.

In May 2017, two months before Season 7 aired, HBO announced that they were considering ''five'' different pitches for ''Game of Thrones'' prequels. In June 2018 HBO announced that it had ordered a series about the Long Night by Jane Goldman, which had the working title ''Bloodmoon''. The pilot was shot in summer 2019, but the entire prequel was cancelled in October 2019.

''Game of Thrones'' has become a worldwide cultural phenomenon, with a record viewership on HBO. The series was praised by critics for its acting, characters, and production values, but also criticized by its frequent use of nudity and violence. The final season, especially its last four episodes, received significant criticism for its condensed story and creative decisions, with many considering it a disappointing conclusion. Despite this, the series has won numerous awards since it debuted, including 59 Primetime Emmy Awards out of 161 nominations, the most by a drama series, and Outstanding Drama Series for the last four seasons. Many critics and publications also named ''Game of Thrones'' in lists of the best TV series of the decade.

''Game of Thrones'' has become a worldwide cultural phenomenon, with a record viewership on HBO. The series was praised by critics for its acting, characters, and production values, but also criticized by its frequent use of nudity and violence. The final season, especially its last three episodes, received significant criticism for its condensed story and creative decisions, with many considering it a disappointing conclusion. Despite this, the series has won numerous awards since it debuted, including 59 Primetime Emmy Awards out of 161 nominations, the most by a drama series, and Outstanding Drama Series for the last four seasons. Many critics and publications also named ''Game of Thrones'' in lists of the best TV series of the decade.

''Game of Thrones'' has become a worldwide cultural phenomenon, with a record viewership on HBO. The series was praised by critics for its acting, characters, and production values, but also criticized by its frequent use of nudity and violence. The final season, especially its last three episodes, received significant criticism for its condensed story and creative decisions. Despite this, the series has won numerous awards since it debuted as a series, including 59 Primetime Emmy Awards out of 161 nominations, the most by a drama series, including Outstanding Drama Series for the last four seasons. Many critics and publications also named ''Game of Thrones'' in lists of the best TV series of the decade.

''Game of Thrones'' has become a worldwide cultural phenomenon, with a record viewership on HBO. The series was praised by critics for its acting, characters, and production values, but also criticized by its frequent use of nudity and violence. The final season in particular received large negative responses from critics and fans with particular criticisms aimed towards the writing of the final four episodes. Despite this, the series has won numerous awards since it debuted as a series, including 59 Primetime Emmy Awards out of 161 nominations, the most by a drama series, including Outstanding Drama Series for the last four seasons. Many critics and publications also named ''Game of Thrones'' in lists of the best TV series of the decade.

''Game of Thrones'' has become a worldwide cultural phenomenon, with a record viewership on HBO. The series was praised by critics for its acting, characters, and production values, but also criticized by its frequent use of nudity and violence and story. The final season in particular received large negative responses from critics and fans with particular criticisms aimed towards the story and writing of the final four episodes. Despite this, the series has won numerous awards since it debuted as a series, including 59 Primetime Emmy Awards out of 161 nominations, the most by a drama series, including Outstanding Drama Series for the last four seasons. Many critics and publications also named ''Game of Thrones'' in lists of the best TV series of the decade.

''Game of Thrones'' has become a worldwide cultural phenomenon, with a record viewership on HBO. The series was praised by critics for its acting, characters, and production values, but also criticized by its frequent use of nudity and violence and story. The final season in particular received a negative response from critics and fans with large criticisms towards the story and writing of the finale four episodes. Despite this, the series has won numerous awards since it debuted as a series, including 59 Primetime Emmy Awards out of 161 nominations, the most by a drama series, including Outstanding Drama Series for the last four seasons. Many critics and publications also named ''Game of Thrones'' in lists of the best TV series of the decade.

''Game of Thrones'' has become a worldwide cultural phenomenon, with a record viewership on HBO. The series was praised by critics for its acting, characters, story, and production values, but also criticized by its frequent use of nudity and violence. The final season in particular received a mixed response from critics and fans. Despite this, the series has won numerous awards since it debuted as a series, including 59 Primetime Emmy Awards out of 161 nominations, the most by a drama series, including Outstanding Drama Series for the last four seasons. Many critics and publications also named ''Game of Thrones'' in lists of the best TV series of the decade.

''Game of Thrones'' has become a worldwide cultural phenomenon. Also, it has won numerous awards since it debuted as a series, including 59 Primetime Emmy Awards out of 161 nominations. However the final seasons of Game of thrones was Panned by both Critics and Fan notablly getting 1.8 million fans to sign a petition to get the final two seasons remade.

HBO's official site, featuring behind-the-scenes teasers, can be found [[http://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones/ here]], whilst the main fan nexus is [[http://winter-is-coming.net/ Winter Is Coming]]. You can vote for your favorite episode [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/crowner.php/BestEpisode/GameOfThrones here]].

The same week that HBO cancelled ''Bloodmoon'', they immediately greenlit one of the other four pitch ideas: ''House of the Dragon'', which will be focused on the history that Martin wrote for ''Literature/FireAndBlood'' (apparently focusing on the second half, about the Dance of the Dragons). HBO ordered it for a full ten episode first season, without a pilot. ''House of the Dragon'' is being developed by Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik (director of some episodes of ''Game of Thrones''), and is tentatively aiming at a 2022 release.

''Game of Thrones'' has become a worldwide cultural phenomenon. Also, it has won numerous awards since it debuted as a series, including 59 Primetime Emmy Awards out of 161 nominations.

In May 2017, two months before Season 7 aired, HBO announced that they were considering ''five'' different pitches for ''Game of Thrones'' prequels - but they didn't say what each idea was. In June 2018 HBO announced that it had ordered a series about the Long Night by Jane Goldman, which had the working title ''Bloodmoon''. This struck many as odd, given that Martin never wrote a prequel novella for such an early era thousands of years ago: semi-official fansite Westeros.org went so far as to say it was the worst possible idea for a prequel, based on working with Martin for the 2014 sourcebook they felt he would never have voluntarily picked it, and that it might have just been chosen by HBO to latch on to White Walker hype from the later ''Game of Thrones'' seasons. Nonetheless, the ''Bloodmoon'' pilot was shot in summer 2019...and as soon as HBO saw the rough-cut pilot in October 2019, the entire prequel was promptly cancelled. We don't know exactly what happened because HBO kept it under wraps, but rumors were swirling that it basically had all the problems that were anticipated when it was ordered: Martin never intended to set a story then so it had no narrative to draw on, world-building was incredibly difficult because it's 8,000 years removed from the original series, etc. leading to numerous "creative differences".

Whatever the case, the same week that HBO cancelled ''Bloodmoon'' (late October 2019), they immediately greenlit one of the other four pitch ideas: ''House of the Dragon'', which will be focused on the history that Martin wrote for ''Literature/FireAndBlood'' (apparently focusing on the second half, about the Dance of the Dragons). HBO ordered it for a full ten episode first season, without a pilot. In total contrast to ''Bloodmoon'', ''House of the Dragon'' has the ''most'' print material by wordcount to base a prequel on. ''House of the Dragon'' is being developed by Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik, and is tentatively aiming at a 2022 release.

As for the other pitch ideas, staff linguist David J. Peterson gave a podcast [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llwYVV92g7k interview]] two weeks after ''Bloodmoon'' was cancelled that shed some light on the subject. Peterson confirmed that the third prequel pitch was actually for a Doom of Valyria series set outside of Westeros, which he'd even been hired for, but it got put on hold when HBO picked ''Bloodmoon'' (there had been leaks about a year before that the third idea was a Valyria prequel). Moreover, Peterson said that he'd never even ''heard'' what the fourth and fifth pitches were, nor did anybody he worked with, which meant they probably never got past the initial pitch phase. This matches with what George R.R. Martin himself said by late summer 2019, that HBO had dropped two of the pitches but was still actively considering three (''Bloodmoon'' and two others, one of which was soon revealed to be ''House of the Dragon''). Of these three, ''Bloodmoon'' is now canceled, ''House of the Dragon'' is greenlit, and the Valyria prequel is in DevelopmentHell. That being said, ''Bloodmoon'' was picked by the old head of HBO, before they got bought by AT&T, who replaced a lot of HBO's top executive positions, so for all we know they might change their minds. Martin keeps hinting in his blog posts that AT&T might actually want to produce ''two'' prequels at the same time, to compete with all the other big streaming platform shows on Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Disney+.

As for the other pitch ideas, staff linguist David J. Peterson gave a podcast [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llwYVV92g7k interview]] two weeks after ''Bloodmoon'' was cancelled that shed some light on the subject. Peterson confirmed that the third prequel pitch was actually for a Doom of Valyria series set outside of Westeros, which he'd even been hired for, but it got put on hold when HBO picked ''Bloodmoon'' (there had been leaks about a year before that the third idea was a Valyria prequel). Moreover, Peterson said that he'd never even ''heard'' what the fourth and fifth pitches were, nor did anybody he worked with, which meant they probably never got past the initial pitch phase. This matches with what George R.R. Martin himself said by late summer 2019, that HBO had dropped two of the pitches but was still actively considering three (Long Night and two others, one of which was soon revealed to be ''House of the Dragon''). Of these three, ''Long Night'' is now canceled, ''House of the Dragon'' is greenlit, and the Valyria prequel is in DevelopmentHell. That being said, ''Bloodmoon'' was picked by the old head of HBO, before they got bought by AT&T, who replaced a lot of HBO's top executive positions, so for all we know they might change their minds. Martin keeps hinting in his blog posts that AT&T might actually want to produce ''two'' prequels at the same time, to compete with all the other big streaming platform shows on Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Disney+.

As for the other pitch ideas, staff linguist David J. Peterson gave a podcast [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llwYVV92g7k interview]] two weeks after ''Bloodmoon'' was cancelled that shed some light on the subject. Peterson confirmed that the third prequel pitch was actually for a Doom of Valyria series set outside of Westeros, which he'd even been hired for, but it got put on hold when HBO picked ''Bloodmoon'' (there had been leaks about a year before that the third idea was a Valyria prequel). Moreover, Peterson said that he'd never even ''heard'' what the fourth and fifth pitches were, nor did anybody he worked with, which meant they probably never got past the initial pitch phase. This matches with what George R.R. Martin himself said by late summer 2019, that HBO had dropped two of the pitches but was still actively considering three (Long Night and two others, one of which was soon revealed to be ''House of the Dragon''). Of these three, Long Night is now canceled, ''House of the Dragon'' is greenlit, and the Valyria prequel is in DevelopmentHell. That being said, ''Bloodmoon'' was picked by the old head of HBO, before they got bought by AT&T, who replaced a lot of HBO's top executive positions, so for all we know they might change their minds. Martin keeps hinting in his blog posts that AT&T might actually want to produce ''two'' prequels at the same time, to compete with all the other big streaming platform shows on Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Disney+.

As for the other pitch ideas, staff linguist David J. Peterson gave a podcast [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llwYVV92g7k interview]] two weeks after ''Bloodmoon'' was cancelled that shed some light on the subject.

As for the other pitch ideas, staff linguist David J. Peterson gave a podcast [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llwYVV92g7k interview] two weeks after ''Bloodmoon'' was cancelled that shed some light on the subject.

As for the other pitch ideas, staff linguist David J. Peterson gave a podcast <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llwYVV92g7k interview]] two weeks after ''Bloodmoon'' was cancelled that shed some light on the subject.

Whatever the case, the same week that HBO cancelled ''Bloodmoon'' (late October 2019), they immediately greenlit one of the other four pitch ideas: ''House of the Dragon'', which will be focused on the history that Martin wrote for ''Literature/FireAndBlood'' (apparently focusing on the second half, about the Dance of the Dragons). HBO ordered it for a full ten episode first season, without a pilot. In total contrast to ''Bloodmoon'', HotD has the ''most'' print material by wordcount to base a prequel on. ''House of the Dragon'' is being developed by Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik, and is tentatively aiming at a 2022 release.

The pilot episode for an HBO prequel series under the working title ''Bloodmoon'' produced by Jane Goldman was announced in June 2018 and shot in 2019, but the series was cancelled in October 2019. A second prequel project focused on the history seen in ''Literature/FireAndBlood'' and titled ''House of the Dragon'' is being developed by Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik.

->''"When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground."''

The pilot episode for an HBO prequel series under the working title ''Bloodmoon'' produced by Jane Goldman was announced in June 2018, but cancelled in October 2019. A second prequel project focused on the history seen in ''Literature/FireAndBlood'' and titled ''House of the Dragon'' is being developed by Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik.

''Game of Thrones'' has become a worldwide cultural phenomenon. Also, it has won numerous of awards since it debuted as a series, including 59 Primetime Emmy Awards out of 161 nominations.

The series was adapted for television by screenwriters Creator/DavidBenioff and Creator/DBWeiss, who jokingly described it as "''Series/TheSopranos'' [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Middle-earth]]". Each season's arc was meant to line up with its corresponding book. However, this ultimately only worked for the first two seasons, as ''Literature/AStormOfSwords'' ([[DoorStopper which in pagecount equals]] ''[[DoorStopper the entirety]]'' [[DoorStopper of the]] ''Lord of the Rings'' trilogy) was eventually split into two seasons, with ''Literature/AFeastForCrows'' bleeding into both Seasons 4 and 5. Martin himself wrote an episode in each of the show's first four seasons. Starting with the sixth season, the show [[OvertookTheSeries overtook the books]], as Martin has yet to publish the sixth novel, ''The Winds Of Winter''. Benioff & Weiss were informed by Martin of the basic plotline of how the saga ends when writing the remaining seasons.

HBO's official site, featuring behind-the-scenes teasers, can be found [[http://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones/ here]], whilst the main fan nexus is [[http://winter-is-coming.net/ Winter Is Coming]].

Vote for your favorite episode [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/crowner.php/BestEpisode/GameOfThrones here]].

The pilot episode for an HBO prequel series under the working title ''Bloodmoon'' produced by Jane Goldman was announced in June 2018, but cancelled in October 2019. A second project focused on the history of "The Dance of the Dragons" is being developed by Ryan Condal.