re: #54 sagehen

I lost all faith in the GoT show runners when they tried to make Confederate. The whole idea is so gross, that even HBO backing out doesn’t salvage anybody’s reputation.

Based on their handling of the last season of GoT, I don’t think that Benioff and Weiss are good enough to write a story like Confederate. There are plenty of those types of alternate history stories, and there could be some potential there, but that takes a level of world building that few writers can muster (for example, fun questions to consider: what happens when WWI breaks out, do the US and the CS enter the war? If so, on which side? If they’re opposed does that mean more fighting in North America? Does WWI in this new timeline lead to WWII like it did in ours?).

I’m also skeptical of the final season of GoT for the same reasons.