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Today’s entry in the do-we-have-to-whine-about-everything category: You may now sign a petition to “remake ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 8 with competent writers.”
What a bunch of dopes.
I know, I know — the irony of someone complaining about someone complaining. But this little bit of idiocy is just the latest example of a group of fans not liking something, deciding that their opinion is the only one that’s valid (as opposed to, you know, the PEOPLE WHO CREATED THE THING) and then saying they want to make their own “correct” version.
Remember the “Remake the Last Jedi” campaign last year, in response to Rian Johnson’s film, which was actually quite good and imaginative in the way that it did not slavishly provide fanboy service at the expense of a good story?
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These ideas are just stupid, for a host of reasons. In the first place, who appointed these complainers the arbiters of all that is right and good? What an arrogant position. You think you can do better? There’s a computer with a blank Word document and a blinking cursor sitting right in front of you, pal. Where were you when the world needed you?
Ugh. This drives me crazy. I understand not liking something — I’ve spent a long time as a television and movie critic. I’ve never watched “Game of Thrones,” but I’m a devoted follower of Twitter opinions offered after every episode. And I know that a lot of people are dissatisfied with the way the final season is playing out.
Fine. There have been plenty of times that I didn’t like a show or a film, or disagreed with the vision of the writer or director. Certainly I’ve said so, sometimes more harshly than others.
But it never occurred to me to think — much less say — that I could have done better. That isn’t the bargain here. They do what they do. I do what I do. We both provide a service. The world turns and we move on.
I didn’t think the arrogance of the “Last Jedi” campaign could be topped.
“This is a campaign to provide Disney an opportunity to course correct with the ‘Star Wars’ franchise,” the invitation to donate says. (Yes, they want to raise actual money to make a new version of the film.)
Course correct? Really? And you clowns are the ones to steer the ship?
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I was wrong. Here’s what the folks aching for a “Game of Thrones” remake say: “David Benioff and D.B. Weiss (who run the show) have proven themselves to be woefully incompetent writers when they have no source material (i.e., the books) to fall back on. This series deserve a final season that makes sense.”
At this point, nearly 600,000 people have electronically signed the petition. (The initial goal was 150,000; now its 1 million.)
I get fandom. I even get obsessive fandom. But this is absurd.
Sometimes things don’t go the way you want them to. That’s TV. That’s the movies.
You don’t get to remake it all in your own image.
Chill. Read a book. Better yet, listen to Matthew Sweet’s great song, “Write Your Own Song.” Carefully.
And settle the heck down.
Reach Goodykoontz at bill.goodykoontz@arizonarepublic.com. Facebook: facebook.com/GoodyOnFilm. Twitter: @goodyk.
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