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^^^lol this is hilarious
Money is the reason there's less episodes, the main cast is getting paid $1mil per episode, less episodes = less payouts. When they make a dunk & egg series with unknowns that's going to be way cheaper.
Plus D&D want to be done and move on to their next project. I heard they pitched and HBO eventually agreed to a show about how the south won called Confederate:
Confederate chronicles events leading to the "Third American Civil War". It takes place in an alternate timeline, where the southern states have successfully seceded from the Union, giving rise to a nation in which slavery remains legal and has evolved into a modern institution. The story follows a broad swath of characters on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Demilitarized Zone – freedom fighters, slave hunters, politicians, abolitionists, journalists, the executives of a slave-holding conglomerate, and the families of people in their thrall
lol fucking idiots they could have had Dunk & Egg or any other GoT spinoff and kept the money train going, but THIS is what they wanted. Already there is talk of boycotts lol
But that's good though, I'd rather have different writers have a crack at the GoT universe. I think I heard there are four shows coming out in the next couple years or so, two of which the writers will work with GRRM. Some of the writers they have look promising.