[Boomer]

Sounds interesting. Looking forward to seeing this pilot. Hope it works out and they can start another 8+ year run. I'm about to start watching the original again from the beginning.

[freedumb2003]

“Game of Small Chairs?”

[Drew68]

GoT redefined what television could become in the age of the modern HDTV large screen home theater setup and America's shifting habit towards binge watching several episodes at leisure instead of single episodes at airtime.

Season 7.4's "Loot Train Battle" is one of television's greatest moments and underscores the struggle the box office today faces in selling movie tickets. There just isn't any reason to go to the movies. TV is so much better.

Here's hoping the prequel is the same quality production that GoT is.

[Drew68]

Ping

[BeauBo]

I’m guessing that they have to go with a prequel for a spinoff, because almost all the GoT characters get killed off in the war to come next season.

[martin_fierro]

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[RightGeek]

So how do make all the characters look younger?

[wardaddy]

Bout damn time

Gonna be epic

[sphinx]

The quality of the writing and the plotting on Game of Thrones declined sharply once the show outran the books. I’m always ready to be pleasantly surprised, but I’m skeptical about a prequel that will be entirely the product of the screenwriters and show runners, with only broad conceptual guidance from GRRM. The movie and tv people turn out sword and sorcery stuff regularly; it goes in and out of fashion, and most of it is trash. The trick in mixing magical elements into a quasi-realistic fictional world is to keep the magic mysterious and held in check, so that the human characters have real agency. Tolkien managed this. Most of his imitators failed. Even Peter Jackson, who did a splendid job with the first LOTR movies, quickly jumped the shark. The LOTR movies declined in each iteration and, by The Hobbit, Jackson had turned Tolkien’s world into a comic book franchise. GRRM manages the trick in the books, but the show runners are clearly not up to the task. The tv people have a cash cow and they’ll probably run it into the dirt sooner rather than later.

[LibertarianLiz]

I'm about to start watching the original again from the beginning.

Last year, before the new season began, we decided to look at the previous season again. After we did, we decided to just go back to the Season 1 and watch it all, in order, on a binge.

I was really able to see the foreshadowing that was going on from the very first season. Hubby and I were glad we did that just before the first half of the ending of the show was shown. We enjoyed the binge very much.