![]() ![]() Because what if you're wrong? What if there's a better idea out there and you planted a flag on the second- or third-best idea? So it was always more a "What if…" conversation than an "I think that…" So by the time we got to the place where we were outlining we already knew most of the big things.īENIOFF: Our arguments tend to be about little detail things. WEISS: It wasn't like something where five years ago one of us said, "I think this has to happen and I know this is right." something that gradually unfolded with neither of us wanting to plant a flag in the ground right out of the gate. Do you ever fight? Is there anything you two strongly disagreed about for the final season storyline? Speaking of yelling at each other, you guys normally come across like you're so in sync. I just wish we found better directors for it. I'm hoping we get the Breaking Bad argument where it's like, "Is that an A or an A+?" I want that to be the argument. WEISS: I remember talking with Alan Taylor, who worked on our show and The Sopranos, asking whether "Don't Stop Believin'" was a song David Chase liked or whether it's a song David Chase loathed but thought Tony Soprano would like. The only sad part is nobody can ever do that ending again. Once it cuts to black nobody knows, and that's what great about it. But at the same time, that's not part of the show. Somebody put together that long detailed explanation of why Tony's dead. Knowing that ending was coming, it felt like the final season clearly foreshadowed his death and the way the final scene was constructed heavily implied it.īENIOFF: Once it cuts to black, the show's over. But that was also because I came away with the firm belief that Tony died, and that gave me a sense of resolution. A few years ago I rewatched the series and loved the ending. I didn't like The Sopranos ending the first time I saw it. And there were like three different conversations in the subway and they were all about the exact same thing. I'll always remember being on the subway headed to Yankees Stadium a couple days after the Sopranos ending aired. I've gotten into a lot of arguments with people about why that was a great ending, but people felt legitimately cheated and that's their right to feel that way, just as it's my right to feel like they're idiots. I think that was the best of all possible endings for that show. I got up and was checking the wires, unable to believe my cable had gone out in the most important moment of my favorite TV series. I was one of those people who thought my TV had gone out. I loved the way David Chase ended The Sopranos. It's also part of the fun of any show that people love arguing about it. ![]() A good story isn't a good story if you have a bad ending. I was hoping for more."īENIOFF: From the beginning, we've talked about how the show would end. I've been that person with other things, where people are loving something and I'm going, "Yeah, that's okay. You hope you're doing the best job you can, that this version works better than any other version, but you know somebody is not going to like it. There is no version where everybody says, "I have to admit, I agree with every other person on the planet that this is the perfect way to do this" - that's an impossible reality that doesn't exist. We also know no matter what we do, even if it's the optimal version, that a certain number of people will hate the best of all possible versions. How important is it to you that final episode sticks the landing? People's opinion of the last episode can color how they feel about the whole series. With serialized shows, there is so much pressure on the finale. So we're entering the most dangerous time. But there have been issues that have happened in postproduction, or a week before an episode airs. We're certainly happy we got through production without a leak. When it's something nobody knows, it oddly makes people more inclined to go digging.īENIOFF: We won't be relieved until the final episode airs without a leak. The fact that everybody knew what was in those first books made people less interested in trying to ferret it out. WEISS: On Wikipedia during season 1, you could read that we're cutting Ned Stark's head off. But luckily most people out there don't want the story to be spoiled. There's always going to be a certain level of douchery, of people trying to spoil things. It's getting harder and harder.īENIOFF: I think we've said to you before: If the NSA and CIA can't protect all of their information, what hope do we have? Stuff is going to leak no matter what, so you try your best to limit it. I heard you guys read the cast the riot act at the table read about spoilers, "Not even a photo of your boots on the set." ![]()
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