'Game Of Thrones' Showrunners Disappointed With How Quality Of Fans Has Dropped Off Over Past Couple

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LOS ANGELES—Saying their once-beloved viewers have lost much of their luster in recent years, Game Of Thrones showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff acknowledged Friday they have been frustrated with the way fans of the HBO series have declined in quality over the past few seasons. “During the show’s first couple of years, our viewers showed a lot of promise and challenged our assumptions about what a fan base could be,” Benioff told reporters, lamenting the fact that when Game Of Thrones moved past George R.R. Martin’s original source material, the show’s supporters began to lose coherence and now barely resemble the industry-defining audience they once were. “At this point, however, they’ve become a tired cliché. It’s hard to watch them lose everything that made us love them in the first place. Nothing they do makes any sense anymore, and it just seems like they want the show to be over with as quickly as possible. It’s pretty sad, to be honest.” At press time, Benioff and Weiss expressed regret that they failed to do more to prevent the fans from becoming so unbelievably shitty.

https://entertainment.theonion.com/game-of-thrones-showrunners-disappointed-with-how-qua-1834843021

[EarnestPutz]

1. Damn, "The Onion" got me again. I only recently wondered about "Showrunners"...

....and what the term meant. Thought it was fans that follow and explain episodes of TV shows, but it turns out it's more like directors. Who knew.

[Maven]

2. A showrunner is a writer and executive producer. He or she runs the writers' room for a series.

Often, the showrunner is also the person who created the series, but not always.

[Solly Mack]

3. lololololol

[SleeplessinSoCal]

4. the diehard fans of both mediums to the rescue.

The Ringer's Talk the Thrones on Twitter right after the east coast airing. They are open to all the possibilities and come up with chapter and verse.

Link to tweet

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[Lady Freedom Returns]

5. The Onion can make a shocker out of anything!