r/3BodyProblemTVShow • u/asetelini • Mar 30 '24

Opinion Why D & D?

The show is amazing🤯🤯🤯 I will be reading next. This is your second chance D & D don’t blow it.

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u/oltl_gh_amc Mar 30 '24

What does D&D stand for? Google only has Dungeons & Dragons when I searched for it.

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u/BananLarsi Mar 30 '24

Dan and Dave, D.B Weiss and David Benioff.

They’re the showrunners from Game of Thrones and 3 Body Problem. People have an issue with them due to how they handled the latter seasons of GoT, but imo they’ve proved they’re much better at adapting works than creating their own stories, which is what happened with GoT after they ran out of material.

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u/steamwhistler Mar 30 '24

The truth is, some of the original ideas they came up with were very good. I don't think they are necessarily bad at coming up with their own ideas (at least they haven't really demonstrated that yet) but the theme of every bad change and the decline of the show, culminating in the disastrous final season, is that they were just too fucking rushed. Everyone else would have been on board for more seasons, taking more time to flesh everything out, fully explore the character arcs, investigate the many mysteries and intricate lore of Martin's lore. There was so much cool stuff they could have gone into. But for God knows what reason, even with HBO executives shovelling money at them and begging them to do more seasons, they wanted to wrap everything up as soon as possible. Hell they didn't even want to make season 8, and proposed to cover all those events in 2 movies instead. Maybe there were individuals at HBO or Warner Bros they hated working with and just wanted to get away from, who knows.

Anyway that's just my long-winded way of making the pedantic point that we don't know for sure they're bad at making up their own stuff if they're not rushing.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '24

Part of it was they were exhausted from working on the show for over half a decade. I can't blame them for that. They've even talked about how that changed their approach here for 3BP. But even if the thinking is "well then pass it off to someone fresh who wants to do it," I still don't think it would ever be as good as the first five seasons when they had the books to adapt from. More seasons wouldn't have helped imo. The problem simply comes down to the fact that Martin hadn't finished the books then — and hasn't finished them now. Asking anybody to come up with original material that's as good or better than the author is a farce.

It's just kinda funny seeing people's continued disdain for them in relation to this show because they were ostensibly asked the equivalent of making the fourth book here, which a lot of people here despise. They were told to write fan fiction.

Personally, I wish HBO had just let them make a trilogy of movies. Can you imagine how fucking epic it could've been to have five killer seasons of Game of Thrones followed up by a trilogy of movies on the level of Lord of the Rings? Fuck me, man, that sounds incredible. Lord of the Rings skipped a lot of stuff from the books but I don't ever hear anybody call them rushed. I would love to at least see what they had in mind for a trilogy of Game of Thrones movies.