George R. R. Martin: The "Game Of Thrones" Showrunners Are More Bloodthirsty Than Me | CONAN on TBS 

The saddest death this season has been Jon Snow's character arc.

@j1 the king "There is nothing wrong with this season." That's the most idiotic thing I've heard today. Even people I have talked to who have enjoyed this season have listed plenty of bad things about it.

Not funny

Robert Nørgaard ong

Old Bull Lee hahahaha you win comment of the year award 😂

+RileyTheVideoGuy And he said it next to Lisa Kudrow.

And it's true! xD

Phoebe was not amused XD

Who is the person it was true with guys? Can youse tell me?

Hahahahahaha...@MR.Ravioli

That would be great.

it would indeed

Ser George Martin rises amid the ashes. xD

Last scene is just him slitting Jon Snows throat and throwing on the floor as he sits on the throne.

I hope it ends with him as a maester studying the "game of thrones" era or writing the final "history book" (season) as a maester. It'll be awesome for him to make a cameo. Fun fact: he actually made a cameo in the un aired plot.

more like a cereal killer, ammiright?

what? no. stop

Killed the King in the North and still hasn’t paid for it.

I don't get it...honest question, what does he mean?

tonertonki It's just a joke, he mean that the writers are killing character that still aren't dead in the books simply because the actors who's portraying them asked for a raise. As I said it's just a joke lol

Abdibassid Afad Ok thanks.

tonertonki good job to you, learning things little by little.

kimoyofficial I'm not American, so American idioms I understand only little. I hope you're not being sarcastic, if not, then thanks.

+Mozey The Hunter hahah

I.e. Crossbows at a wedding...

Mozey The Hunter o

And Jojen

Me

Stannis The Mannis

+AtOutoftheBlue yeah no one likes jojen though

Shireen

+grizzlytomahawk why not ;)

no no no hes got nothing on Tolkien😃 in fairness George has borrowed so much from history and British mythology that its not fair to compare him to Tolkien imo

to be fair, who wouldnt do that for a role in the series?

***** rofl sit down. He said think hes a brilliant writer, thats all.

Tolkien is way better. H With out him they would be no Dragons or Harry Potter. He made it all possible. You can compare this guy to J.K Rowling.

Well at least Ramsay's dogs were fed well in the end

You want to get high with George?

Oh your "weed-ing"? I want him to plan my cocaine-ing then.

Don't be so sure.. Watch College Humor's video.

mairuzu You don't?

NOOOOOO! YOU WON'T MAKE IT OUT OF THERE ALIVE

Brianna Gordy I don’t hate him, he did what ever he wanted to and people respected and feared him, he was a king

Nike You're a sentence away from saying "Joffrey did nothing wrong".

Steel Xcaliber do you play world of warcraft? :)

Yeah, he received a lot of hate from idiots who can't fathom that he's just playing a role. Same with Lena Headey. Sad really, because they are both kind-hearted people and fantastic actors who deserve all the respect. It's harder to play a role, if it's in contrast to your own character.

Jack played his character pretty well, I saw his interviews, he's a nice guy. Sad that this guy gets unnecessary hate for playing a character. I hate jofferey, there's nothing to like about that character. But, Jack is a great actor, can't deny that.

+Zire Brahms mind=blown

+Italian Mapper Illuminati Confirmed..............

It all makes sense now!

Maybe that's why he invents all of those languages. Bappa di boopy?

for Pete's sake

I thought the same thing xD

He knoows

What year did they shoot Tristane's death? How did Conan knew that? lol

+BlackMoon he could be talking about the knight who tried to kill Tyrion during blackwater.. if im not mistaken Podrick killed him by putting a spear through his neck

or he gave George R.R. Martin the idea for the scene? :D

hahahahahahahahaha seriously underrated comment

sentinel501 lol

Michael Papantis not really. its at the top

sentinel501 the foods have meaning. Tells you what will happen

It’s funny because he never describes the dancing at those feasts.

Pod did it to a Kingsguard in the Blackwater episode though.

+Fooking Confirmed yeah but I'm pretty sure Pod killed him in the books too, just by drowning him rather than spearing him through the mouth

+AJ That was Lisa Kudrow laughing in the background.

+AndyLion No, as long as you invite all the people you don't like.

+Aaron Reamer LOL!

As long as you don't plan on going you should be fine ...

+Panthera Andy Leo The sansa, tyrion wedding was okay

but it was a dull affair ;)

That's mean

+Enlightened Tha THIRD Not really, he made a mistake in his speech, it was funny..

stoiviedoi Poor guy is getting old and you laugh at him

+Enlightened Tha THIRD I'd still find it funny if he was 30 years younger

I would too. It's different however to laugh at an aging man who is more likely than not making mistakes like that due to his gradual phsyical/mental decline

Obama?

How does that make him a hipster??? The books were writen years ago, so¿¿¿¿

AegonTheConqueror *woosh*

+Jet IceBane For characters we want to die the most?

Actually, Ramsay is a pretty funny and cool character.

Who we still want dead.

Jet IceBane I know Ramsey is sick and twisted but Olly...........................I've never hated a child more than Olly in my life, not even Joffrey compares

+Jet IceBane bro wildlings killed olly's parents and jon was bringing them south of the wall so you can understand his situation.

That's the character trope of his direwolf "Shaggydog"

Adam Garcia Good stories don't follow character tropes, though. George likely has more in mind than making Rickon's story predictably pointless. At least a decent less predictable pointless ending for his character's development would be him becoming King in the North or something at the very end of the story (assuming Jon's likely death).

GraverGames I don't follow the books, but it seems to me that GRRM created the direwolfs to be a representation of their owner's fates or destiny. I certainly understand the criticism though and I have no doubt that the books are better, but I fucken love the show haha.

Oh don't get me wrong, I absolutely loved the show for the first four seasons. Best tv there's ever been, and even the past two seasons are still amazing tv, just not as much when compared to the books. Direwolfs definitely represent parts of the characters' personalities, but I'm not sure they really mean much when it comes to their fates. Take Sansa's direwolf, Lady, being killed in episode 3?...for example. Kind of doubt Sansa ever dies in the story, but Ghost and Shaggydog definitely have very similar histories/personalities to their owners.

GraverGames yeah, it's a shame they've had to diverge so much from the books, I would also be frustrated, but then again tv shows don't have the luxury of being books that can fit so many things into 100s of pages and the creators of the show have said they can't have more than 10 episodes a season because of financial reasons. Also no offense to GRRM because he's a genius but he still isn't finished with the books so it makes sense that they've had to change things up. Although some of those changes they've made have been dumb imo. Nevertheless I still love it.

@@charliecartwright491 LMAO ikr 😂

who died from a spear to the mouth? Already forgot lmao

JumboCod91 oh right... thought it was him, but I remember the spear going through his nose

He didn't, George just loved the suggestion so much he had them write it in.

moose2llama LOL

Pod does to a Kingsguard in the Blackwater episode though, maybe that's what he's talking about.

Thought the same thing

To be fair, if Conan knew about it, it was either already in the books, or had aired on tv. If it aired on tv, its no longer a spoiler, and if its in the book, technically its also not a spoiler as, whilst the tv hasn't mentioned/caught up to it, the information is out there. Same with harry potter, dobby dies in the last book/second last film, whilst when the movie came out this was something that would have annoyed the non book reader fans, the information had already been there in book form since 2007, so its not technically a spoiler as you could easily find it out, and it was three years old.

D&D rushed the ending so they could move onto other things. HBO apparently offered them more seasons to properly flesh out the story but they went on to work on star wars or something like that. They just wanted to get it over with

after watching it again, I think he said "well cause."

He said well cause man lol

sounds like "well course I killed them years ago in the books" to me

Sarah Neal Jason Zhang eldiablo385 You three are correct, he did not call him "Chris." Fun Fact: Conan's middle name is Christopher. I'm WikiBear!

lol

***** Ye, R.I.P Ser Barriston

+Pamela Hannay Having Stannis kill Shireen was a total character assassination. I love that man in the books, and now I gotta hate his guts on the show

@@SawPulse and yet fans complained there weren't enough deaths in S8

White Wolf aye! :P

You mean because he abused Sansa? So men can have their heads chopped of and dozens of men are killed each episode and that’s fine You feminists are the dumbest people ever

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OH MY GOD SO TRUE! I couldn't agree more. Everything in the book is so much more complex and realistic. The show is good but the books are just amazing. You have read them right?

Aashna J. Awkwardly enough, I haven't. I know i sound illiterate when i say this, but they're just too complex, often times they'd mention people, i had to sit there thinking who the hell they were talking about. However, i have watched a bunch of videos on the many sub plots in the books which are not featured on the show, and the many layers of depth and story lines which aren't in the show. I also know that the show and books are going in two separate directions, so i want to finish the show before i give the books another try.

+thekingof300 That's totally fine. Instead of sounding illiterate, you infact sound rather well versed with Got(ASOIAF). At least you understand the complexity of the series and look beyond the nudity and blood ,unlike my friends who watch the show. All I would like to say is that Daenerys is awesome in the books.(Ik its random but Dany in show is such a 'trailer character' in the show if uk what I mean)

Now in season 6 , most of the plotlines and characters developed throughout all of previous ones felt like waste. And now i am waiting 9 filler episodes to build up for last one. bTW the shock value you were talking about doesnt apply to me anymore, it may be effective onto 60 year old soap opera viewers who also watches discovery channel in their free time before daily midday sleep

He was the best character in the whole saga

yes

You're just jelly 'cause you didn't make it in the show. :P Also, did you rediscover some forgotten Valyrian time travelling spell or something?

I dunno what you talking about. I'm that kinda guy who gets really annoyed after any kind of changes while watching a book adaptation, but in game of thrones these changes were so small or insignificant that I just don't give a damn

The change's this season have been super insignificant. If you are talking about different scenes, there's a TON of filler this season. If you want a season that deviates from the book's a lot, arguably season 2 is probably the worst offender, SO many thing's are different.

I haven't read the books, but I do watch a lot of reviews and discussions and read a lot of articles after each episode that detail what was different and what was the same... and from what I can surmise, even at it's most different... this is still one of the most faithful adaptations in motion picture history. Anybody complaining about differences is splitting hairs and not looking at this in perspective to how different most adaptations are. This is a big pet peeve of mine with books fans. They're often way too married to the original material. This is because when you read a book, you're imagining it in your head, so you can make it just the way you like it. Whereas a show is presenting it in a more concrete format and you have to accept it more or less the way it is. You'll find that some book fans are more accepting, because they probably aren't as stubborn about having things just so. But some book fans are so stingy about wanting the EXACT SAME experience they had when reading the book, that there's no hope for the show to ever be able to read their mind and present things exactly the same. The worst example of this that I saw recently was a guy on RU-vid who was complaining that the Oberyn vs Mountain scene was "ruined" in the show, because it didn't do things EXACTLY the same way. He had imagined this scenario where Oberyn purposely lost the fight to be a martyr, and was disappointed that the show didn't explicitly convey that, even though other book readers were telling him that the book never explicitly conveyed that either, it was just a fan theory and that this scene was one of the most accurate to what was in the book. But he was adamant that it was "clearly" conveyed through the subtext (bit of a contradiction there) that Oberyn had thrown the fight. He had imagined the scene in a way that he liked when he read it, but the show just presented the scene as it was. The disparity wasn't between the show and the book, it was between the motion picture format and his imagination. I find that many book fans have this problem when they complain about differences. The show may do things differently, or even sometimes exactly the same, but if it FEELS different than what book fans liked when they read the book, then they're upset. I feel like a lot of people have unrealistic expectations with adaptations a lot of the time. Their expectations are too specific. Adaptations often are not supposed to get the details exactly the same, they're just concerned with getting the big picture captured. The overall arcs and themes. Not necessarily specific traits, moments, details or subtexts. Any adaptation that DOES do those things should be considered to be going the extra mile, not "doing it properly", because there is no proper way to do an adaptation. And slavish faithfulness to details doesn't necessarily make an adaptation good. Take The Shining for example. Stanley Kubrick changed things substantially in his adaptation of it, and it's a transcendent film that has a revered place in film history. Whereas Stephen King wrote an adaptation of it for a tv movie in the 90s that was more faithful, but it was a terrible movie. Sometimes, making changes to suit the strengths of a different format are what's necessary to make a good piece of art. I'd take that over blind faithfulness any day. And I have heard book fans say that some scenes have been better in the show than they were in the book. Sansa's defence of Littlefinger at the Eyrie, for example. Apparently that was really different in the book, but the way the show did it was actually more interesting. Maybe other scenes are worse, but you win some, you lose some. Take the good with the bad, and keep the big picture in mind.

A.W.S. Vids My complaint is more of how the timeline has changed more then anything else. The Viper vs The Mountain was good, and Oberyn didn't throw the fight per say more of got caught up in his revenge instead of finishing him off. Still gets him though, because a Dornishman's blade has a terrible kiss......hint hint ;)

ikr

+Yousef Hooman I'm referencing that Clueless Gamer video he did recently

TheDevilsMouse I know

Just making sure ;)

Scrap that, make it TWO years! Come on!

It's called editing. Get real.

The world of westeros he is the giant they live on

Theclaw Yaww They don't live atop a giant's head, they live in its eye. That's why the oceans are so blue!

I was joking

Well, Tyrion is kind of a hobbit, but yeah more interesting by far, and totally in line with GRRM except Gollum becoming the hero. Martin wouldn't champion a complete antihero. An underdog like Faramir or Eomir is more likely to replace the all too squeaky clean Aragorn who would have died by book 2 for sure :)

Sounds a whole lot better.

Piss off.

Rinku Starr go fuck yourself you weird lil shit

Jay Dee No one likes fans like you who badger the writers for not spending every single moment of their life on their books.

im not badgering him, just posting a comment on a youtube video, dont tell me to piss off

Rinku Starr it was a funny comment dude, chill out for fucks sake

Shut the fuck up, idiot.

slowboat Obama made the joke not me. He had his crossbow.

slowboat You love your masters, don't you, boy?

common101sense Yes, a *joke*. Not to be taken seriously.

Irtiza Sami Tell that to the innocencs who have been killed in drone attacks sanctioned by Joffery...I mean Obama.

Martyn Lannister (killed by Lord Karstark), Dagmer Cleftjaw (Theon's guy supposedly killed by Ramsay), Qarth's 13 (killed by warlocks), Xaro Xhoan Daxos (locked in Qarth vault), Irri (one of Dany's handmaidens), Rakharo (one of Dany's Dothraki bloodriders). Yeah... they kinda butchered the Dany crowd a bit.

Cleftjaw was pretty much a different character, they really fucked up his portrayal. Xaro still has some part to play, but nothing major, so I guess it''s okay. Too bad Irri is dead, now we won't see her and Danny's sex scene O.O Although Missandei (who is not a kid in the show) is still there!

Not a big deal, but they changed deaths of Rorge and Biter in the newest episode. Instead of dying when fighting against Brienne, they just, bleh, check out the newest episode. Actually, they have changed a lot deaths for minor characters.

Qarth was quite bloody in the show. But I am not sure Xaro Xhoan Daxos is dead. When he shows up later I wouldn't be suprised. And dragons also burned Pyat Pree in the show, in the books Drogon burned giant rotten heart.

Mason Haney Xaro got locked in the vault but we didn't see him die so he could have escaped through a secret back door or some servant or something came back and let him out.