Game of Thrones Season 8 Pitch Meeting - Revisited!

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  • Step back into the pitch meeting and revisit the completely factual accurate conversation that led to Game of Thrones Season 8! Complete with commentary from Ryan George who is now several years older!
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    Game of Thrones is one of the most popular TV dramas of all time, and fans were pumped to see what the creators had in store for its final season. However after a few episodes, GoT fans started to have some questions about the way D.B. Weiss and David Benioff were wrapping up their favorite show. Like what’s up with Daenerys becoming pure evil so quickly? Why isn’t anyone talking about Jon being the rightful heir to the throne? Was that really the end of the Night King? Are scorpions more powerful, or are dragons?
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  • @LightofJoshua
    @LightofJoshua Před 8 měsíci +3468

    What also kills me about this is the ENTIRE FANBASE would have waited patiently for a honorable ending to the show

    • @jonnnnniej
      @jonnnnniej Před 8 měsíci +238

      Dumb and Dumber had to make a shitty Star Wars movie 😭 I'm still mad

    • @TinKnight
      @TinKnight Před 8 měsíci +112

      I mean... they're still waiting for GRRM to release the last 2 books despite it having been over 13 years since he started on Book 6. I don't know that we'd have been THAT patient for the show, but making Seasons 7 & 8 full seasons would've gone a LONG way towards alleviating the criticism that it was a botched & rushed job (plus, you know, sequencing improvements & story improvements & making their biggest episode of the entire small-screen show visible on more than 5% of small screens)

    • @caseyhart4999
      @caseyhart4999 Před 8 měsíci +87

      If they had properly ended the show it would have gone a long way towards giving George more time and patience to finish the books. As things stand George will likely never finish and so the ending of the show will forever be the canon ending and I myself just cannot forgive that.

    • @bulbafett5001
      @bulbafett5001 Před 8 měsíci

      Well they did kinda fuck themselves itno a corner with Sansa, Arya, Jon, Caetlyn, Littlefinger, Basically everything Tyrion does in Essos. I mean ditching Arya's Warging? collapsing Jeyne Poole's stories onto Sansa without a lick of reasoning behind why Littlefinger woudl fuck up that badly? All the smart political masters suddenly eating lead paint chips for the off season till they're retarded.

    • @jackroberts2704
      @jackroberts2704 Před 8 měsíci

      Those two shit heads blew it. It's unlikely GRRM will finish the books, but he had the ending planned out. Even if the show couldn't adapt it 1:1, they could have took their time to have it at least make sense.

  • @Deondre_Clark
    @Deondre_Clark Před 8 měsíci +3379

    Never has a show gone from cultural phenomenon to completely forgettable in such a short time

    • @pigeonpoo1823
      @pigeonpoo1823 Před 8 měsíci +148

      Pitch Meeting is not forgotten!
      Oh, GOT. Yeah, yeah i get what you mean now

    • @lukeford9803
      @lukeford9803 Před 8 měsíci +31

      don’t question consume

    • @armoredchimp
      @armoredchimp Před 8 měsíci +135

      It's so true. I still think seasons 1-4 were phenomenal but I kind of doubt I will ever re-watch them

    • @kidunderabridge
      @kidunderabridge Před 8 měsíci +124

      @@armoredchimp it feels all so pointless to invest that much time in something that the creators didn't respect the time we committed to watching it. Sad because I also think back on the glory days, but I would rather watch something that cares and has a fulfilling conclusion

    • @fanthonyfictions
      @fanthonyfictions Před 8 měsíci +12

      Much like the cast and writers.
      I heard such'n such is in the new thingy magigy.
      Who?
      You know, that character from GoT.
      Oh... yea no.

  • @AngryCenturion576
    @AngryCenturion576 Před 8 měsíci +1322

    4 years later and the pain still feels fresh

    • @almostlifesize.
      @almostlifesize. Před 8 měsíci +7

      I basically just commented the same thing, but you worded it so much better 😂

    • @lpc3109
      @lpc3109 Před 8 měsíci +4

      I fell asleep during the ending, never even bothered to re-watch it. I think falling asleep in the first 15 minutes of the last episode of a show like that says a lot.

    • @jezusmylord
      @jezusmylord Před 7 měsíci +3

      thats why we here

    • @TheONE10X
      @TheONE10X Před 5 měsíci +1

      The books gots me through my first year on mission in Aghanistan. Thousands of pages read and I couldn't wait for the rest. When the HBO show came out I was very apprehensive, however a battle buddy had the dvds so I gave it a chance. By season two I knew they were not going to honor the source material and abandoned ship after the second episode. Glad I did, but not at all happy with what they did to one of the greatest stories I have read. Still wondering if G.R.R. Martin can get off his ass and save his masterpiece. Him and Patrick Rothfuss....

    • @darklighter66
      @darklighter66 Před 4 měsíci +1

      4 years?

  • @gorrow1990
    @gorrow1990 Před 8 měsíci +1731

    GOT Season 8 is one of the very few times the Internet has been completely united on ripping something popular.

    • @noway3202
      @noway3202 Před 8 měsíci +50

      I wouldn't say completely united. There was that cringy spinoff of the asoiaf subreddit who made a circlejerk community that tried really hard to pretend the final season was a masterpiece and that people were just hating on it because it was popular. Basically your standard schizophrenic hipsters

    • @elliotwatson3964
      @elliotwatson3964 Před 8 měsíci +20

      very true. I know its opinion based on whether people liked it or not, but I actually disagree. If anyone enjoyed season 8 then they clearly wern't paying attention to characters on screen

    • @velkonemriam1935
      @velkonemriam1935 Před 8 měsíci +26

      It takes a special kind of negligence to turn an entire fan base into a unity of anger and rage against something.

    • @tessdurberville711
      @tessdurberville711 Před 8 měsíci +3

      46m people watched the finale. Only 1.8m signed the petition to remake the final (started mainly to insult Benioff and Weiss).

    • @harish123az
      @harish123az Před 8 měsíci +32

      @@tessdurberville711 You genuinely believe all 46m are online and sign petitions? I hate the last season, I didnt sign the petition. But look at the critics rating, the audience rating. By every single measure the finale was a failure.
      Its easy to call someone just a hater, but there is near unanimous consensus that they screwed the pooch in the last season.

  • @Realdrlipschitz
    @Realdrlipschitz Před 8 měsíci +3671

    Never has a show fallen harder from grace

    • @Bossfightmedia
      @Bossfightmedia Před 8 měsíci +64

      Peak reason why you should never strife to write like someone else. xD And why HUMONGOUS multiple-part series are not something to be taken lightly.

    • @The_Chris_Haynes_Show
      @The_Chris_Haynes_Show Před 8 měsíci +62

      Walking dead even gave itself some redemption after "promoting" gimple.

    • @DevilWearsAdidas
      @DevilWearsAdidas Před 8 měsíci +52

      I'm so damn glad it did, too. To me, it was pornhub dnd, as corny as it could be with random sex scenes that didn't need to exist. I'm so damn glad to hear how badly it ended because I honestly couldn't stand it. Everyone kept asking me about it like it's necessary for anyone that does play dnd to watch it, it was just so incredibly hollywooded that I just wished it would burn in a fire. Glad to see it actually did.

    • @StuartQuinn
      @StuartQuinn Před 8 měsíci +21

      Never seen Arrested Development?

    • @newrev9er
      @newrev9er Před 8 měsíci +124

      ​@@DevilWearsAdidas...that's certainly an opinion.

  • @memecity9849
    @memecity9849 Před 8 měsíci +3370

    The best thing about season 8 being so bad is the comedy gold we got from it from people bashing it

    • @premiumheadpats4150
      @premiumheadpats4150 Před 8 měsíci +10

      Fair!

    • @Alvaro89Rus
      @Alvaro89Rus Před 8 měsíci +19

      Star Wars VIII

    • @ZarRaj
      @ZarRaj Před 8 měsíci +62

      I felt so betrayed by season 8. It was like Lost all over again. On the plus side, it torched my taste for GOT so much that I don't even miss it, unlike my favorite space western.

    • @SunMcLob
      @SunMcLob Před 8 měsíci +5

      r/freefolk rise up

    • @AceMoonshot
      @AceMoonshot Před 8 měsíci +11

      I like how you think. The positivity of seeing the Silver Lining.
      Wish my natural inclination was to do that, too.

  • @larrylutz6825
    @larrylutz6825 Před 8 měsíci +833

    The “5 pairs of sunglasses” line was so accurate. I legit thought something was wrong with my tv at how dark the scenes were!

    • @tessdurberville711
      @tessdurberville711 Před 8 měsíci +1

      Did you try turning up the brightness?
      We have watched it on our smart tv, smartphones, laptop, and tablet and never had that problem.

    • @jase276
      @jase276 Před 8 měsíci

      Sounds more like a GoT problem if someone could watch literally everything else fine but then needs to turn the brightness up for one GoT episode. Especially when every other GoT episode was fine. It's obvious that they purposefully made it dark. @@tessdurberville711

    • @hackerweirdo8914
      @hackerweirdo8914 Před 8 měsíci +15

      @larrylutz6825
      yeah, I had to turn up brightness on my monitor which is what I almost never do

    • @jojopro6590
      @jojopro6590 Před 8 měsíci +21

      @@tessdurberville711Idk what amazing screens or eyes you have.I have my phone on full brightness and I couldn’t see anything again in this pitch meeting. Just black screens with barely visible silhouettes. So I can vaguely see what’s probably going on but no details at all.

    • @pk6546
      @pk6546 Před 8 měsíci

      @@tessdurberville711 Thats what the show runners said, for a tv show episode that it should be watch in high end product. Most phones and tablet have high quality oled screens. for lcd monitor or screens which most people still have it doesnt look good. When media with higher budget manage to look adequate on any screens or tv.

  • @Jaster_Mereel
    @Jaster_Mereel Před 8 měsíci +316

    That "being off screen" invincibility is still hilarious

    • @bigpictureguys8415
      @bigpictureguys8415 Před 8 měsíci +2

      So true

    • @denisl2760
      @denisl2760 Před měsícem

      We had main characters die left and right in earlier seasons, then during the main battle only Jorah, Theon, and Lyanna dies. Why didn't Brienne and Tormund die? Their story was over at that point.

  • @kaib6998
    @kaib6998 Před 8 měsíci +1184

    It's really painful to watch something that's supposed to be a parody and hear him say literally the same things the actual showrunners said.

    • @Cipherman360
      @Cipherman360 Před 8 měsíci +76

      "So Dani is sitting there all sad with her starbucks"
      "Did you say Starbucks?"
      "Yep"
      😂

    • @LuisSierra42
      @LuisSierra42 Před 8 měsíci +35

      It was my first pitch meeting and also the one i've watched the most. It helped me cope with the disappointment

    • @bingobongo1615
      @bingobongo1615 Před 8 měsíci +67

      She kind of forgot the iron fleet but they certainly haven’t forgotten her…
      The stupidest thing I have ever heard…

    • @duncanlutz3698
      @duncanlutz3698 Před 8 měsíci +31

      I'm just surprised Ryan didn't work in the "Themes are for 8th grade book reports" line. Benioff, one of the showrunners, outright said that in an interview for one of the earlier seasons...
      We should have known.

    • @infinitelybanta
      @infinitelybanta Před 8 měsíci +13

      I just got done writing that I think the plot points in season 8 could have worked if they were fleshed out, and I think that even applies to Dany forgetting about the fleet. If they had shown her descent into madness and then the characters were in disbelief about her foolish decision making, even something as seemingly stupid as that could have been okay.

  • @ellicel
    @ellicel Před 8 měsíci +909

    "The Council of Surviving Characters" is among my favorite lines from Ryan and will never grow old!! 😂

    • @csorfab
      @csorfab Před 8 měsíci +10

      Agreed, I was ugly laugh-crying the first time I've heard it due to the sheer absurdity and sadness and anger I'd been feeling because of the last two seasons

    • @kjohns99
      @kjohns99 Před 8 měsíci +28

      My very favorite is, Who has a better story than Bran? Arguably any other character.
      Something about the delivery kills me.

    • @mile_high_topher
      @mile_high_topher Před 8 měsíci +6

      @@csorfab Ryan has reignited my anger and sadness.

    • @LimitedCheetah
      @LimitedCheetah Před 8 měsíci +6

      The bearers of plot armor, sitting on the council of surviving characters, shall elect the "best" king.

    • @Wintermute909
      @Wintermute909 Před 8 měsíci +1

      I reckon it was George who said that....Ryan just wrote it!

  • @bellenber
    @bellenber Před 8 měsíci +147

    Love how the Producer is like..."You can have more episodes". I feel this exact conversation happened.

    • @7PlayingWithFire7
      @7PlayingWithFire7 Před 8 měsíci +36

      It did. It's confirmed that dumb and dumber wanted to be done, but also wanted all of the credit for the whole show

    • @dike174
      @dike174 Před 7 měsíci +20

      Yep. Even before the final season came out, there were reports that HBO executives were asking Dumb and Dumber if they legit needed more episodes.

  • @glitchparallax4215
    @glitchparallax4215 Před 8 měsíci +253

    "The Council Of Surviver Characters"
    is now on my favorite lines of Ryan pitch meetings list!! 😂😂😂

    • @scottslotterbeck3796
      @scottslotterbeck3796 Před 8 měsíci +2

      Yeah, I burst out laughing at that. Sometimes a line is perfect. That was one of those times.

  • @robinswolfs4969
    @robinswolfs4969 Před 8 měsíci +686

    But how can you destroy one of the best shows ever made in one season?
    David Benioff and D.B. Weiss saying together in harmony: "Super easy, barely an inconvenience"

    • @boobah5643
      @boobah5643 Před 8 měsíci +68

      It wasn't _just_ the last season. Even before they outran the books it was obvious that they didn't understand the story Martin was trying to tell, and once they had things like 'travel time' and 'distance' just stopped being things in the show, despite Westeros being the size of Europe and most everybody being unable to travel faster than a sailboat or horse.

    • @Kumagoro42
      @Kumagoro42 Před 8 měsíci +42

      @@boobah5643 "the story Martin was trying to tell" and which, to add insult to injury, he'll never finish. So the GoT ending will remain forever as the only ending of A Song of Ice and Fire.

    • @gaszwyn449
      @gaszwyn449 Před 8 měsíci +27

      @@boobah5643They kinda just stripped away all the fantasy horror aspects of the books with the exception of the White Walkers.

    • @jamielondon6436
      @jamielondon6436 Před 8 měsíci +4

      @@Kumagoro42 Clearly you are not familiar with fanfiction. ;-)

    • @BrowncoatFairy
      @BrowncoatFairy Před 8 měsíci +34

      to be fair it had been going downhill since about season 5 or 6, but there's a big difference between the "going downhill" of 5/6/7 and the "completely falling off a cliff" of season 8.

  • @MrDuzaman
    @MrDuzaman Před 8 měsíci +775

    Season 8 hurts even more because when I think about re-watching GoT I can't get the ending out of my head.

    • @selardohr7697
      @selardohr7697 Před 8 měsíci +30

      I have that feeling a lot when production companies remake, reboot, or endlessly sequel shows/ movies i used to love. It's frustrating.

    • @romeisburning6739
      @romeisburning6739 Před 8 měsíci +66

      Yeah it totally kills the whole show.

    • @alandoane9168
      @alandoane9168 Před 8 měsíci +14

      Why in God's name would you even think about rewatching it?

    • @axiss5840
      @axiss5840 Před 8 měsíci +50

      ​@@alandoane9168Because the rest of the seasons are still great

    • @mranderson7932
      @mranderson7932 Před 8 měsíci +54

      yeah agree. Sometimes I feel like watching it again but then remember how it ended and that it was all for nothing

  • @HartSickle
    @HartSickle Před 8 měsíci +121

    "Her nephew doesn't wanna sleep with her."
    Always my favorite quote from this one.

    • @batmanwins5701
      @batmanwins5701 Před měsícem

      If she was my auntie I'd make an exception 😉

  • @Edramon53
    @Edramon53 Před 8 měsíci +970

    The amazing thing is there were supposedly at least 50% of fans who weren't disappointed. Unless it was 49% disappointed, 51% enraged.

    • @beachwitch89
      @beachwitch89 Před 8 měsíci +106

      Right lol there's no way 50% of fans liked it

    • @rome8180
      @rome8180 Před 8 měsíci +74

      One of my smartest friends really liked it. He's extremely critical of other shows and movies for their illogical character behaviors and plot inconsistencies. I was baffled when he told me he liked the final season. Personally, I think it went downhill well before Season 8.

    • @robertkennedy2258
      @robertkennedy2258 Před 8 měsíci +7

      I liked season 8

    • @iambicpentakill
      @iambicpentakill Před 8 měsíci +22

      Everything went downhill the last few seasons (let's rape Sansa again, let's gather the main characters to go get a zombie, etc was all before season 8), so for me it was more of a "meh, expected".

    • @Bamazon1990
      @Bamazon1990 Před 8 měsíci +15

      Yeah I don’t believe that for a minute. It’s only 30% from audience on rotten tomatoes

  • @JonathonFyck
    @JonathonFyck Před 8 měsíci +351

    “I really want this to be over” was basically the entire vibe of the final season of Game of Thrones

    • @alandoane9168
      @alandoane9168 Před 8 měsíci +14

      I love that they thought they could foist that off on viewers and still have a whole slew of sequels and prequels that wouldn't fail.

    • @Kumagoro42
      @Kumagoro42 Před 8 měsíci +25

      They should have ended it with a freeze frame after Drogon causes something to blow up, and the superimposed text: "Daenerys Targaryen, age 24, gave herself up to the authorities after the incident. She is now serving a life sentence."

    • @orterves
      @orterves Před 8 měsíci +7

      Note: Bran the Broken died on the way back to his home planet

    • @bohemianharpsicord4294
      @bohemianharpsicord4294 Před 8 měsíci +7

      That's literally what happened, the show runners wanted to work on other stuff but didnt want to hand the reigns over to someone else to they just ended it as quick as possible. HBO even offered them more episodes and seasons and they turned it down.

    • @scottslotterbeck3796
      @scottslotterbeck3796 Před 8 měsíci

      20 episodes would have been perfect.

  • @kerravon4159
    @kerravon4159 Před 8 měsíci +224

    That GOT season 8 pitch meeting was so spot-on accurate I think it was incredibly cathartic for a lot of disappointed fans.

    • @jamielondon6436
      @jamielondon6436 Před 8 měsíci +4

      The beginning of my years long healing journey, yes!

    • @PaolaRL
      @PaolaRL Před 8 měsíci +1

      Accurate!

  • @majed8192
    @majed8192 Před 8 měsíci +104

    The fact that the line about Danny forgetting about the iron fleet is word for word from what David Benioff actually said is the most halarious part of the pitch meeting for me 😂

  • @xenwraithtealix1075
    @xenwraithtealix1075 Před 8 měsíci +71

    I liked how for the GoT season 8 pitch meeting, he used actual quotes from the showrunners

  • @carlrood4457
    @carlrood4457 Před 8 měsíci +261

    I kind of like how the undead can break out of massive stone crypts, but the one from the previous season couldn't get out of a wood box.

    • @Divertedflight
      @Divertedflight Před 8 měsíci +23

      Good point.

    • @rafetizer
      @rafetizer Před 8 měsíci +36

      Budget cuts at Winterfell that year. Plaster of Paris was quietly used in place of a hewn stone sarcophogus.

    • @Arldavis
      @Arldavis Před 8 měsíci +19

      No, cuz these were STARK undead! Highly powerful! 😅

    • @0cidd0
      @0cidd0 Před 8 měsíci +9

      Yeah people saying that was dumb to hide in the crypt, but as far they knew the walkers couldn’t get throw a wooden box. And the last stark dead in the crypt was ned, 8 years ago probably just his head the was body cremated i think, so should be very weak, and before ned, lyanna? Around 18 years ago? Her still have a body?

    • @sabinopereira1631
      @sabinopereira1631 Před 8 měsíci +3

      ​@@0cidd0logic? In my dragon show?

  • @Coastfog
    @Coastfog Před 8 měsíci +439

    Ryan put more thought into his Q&A workflow bit than Weiss & Benniof into season 8.

    • @john2g1
      @john2g1 Před 8 měsíci +6

      Sick burn ❤️‍🔥

    • @dingross
      @dingross Před 8 měsíci +3

      True that

    • @NephritduGrey
      @NephritduGrey Před 8 měsíci +5

      I mean they're called Dumb and Dumber for a reason.

    • @gm2407
      @gm2407 Před 8 měsíci +4

      GRRM spent more time on rewriting one chapter than those two did writing all of season 8.

  • @ClaraDunning
    @ClaraDunning Před 8 měsíci +386

    I was such a massive fan of GoT until that last season, and when I saw your Pitch Meeting it perfectly encapsulated why I hated it. I share the Pitch Meeting to anyone who wonders why I hated the ending so much. Thank you again for your service!

    • @matthewleahy4363
      @matthewleahy4363 Před 8 měsíci +21

      So glad those clowns lost their star wars deal cause of it

    • @shepardice3775
      @shepardice3775 Před 8 měsíci +16

      Season 7 was basically just as bad. I had the fortune (or misfortune) of basically binging the whole show in a few weeks and was also somewhat familiar with the books. After they stopped being a faithful adaptation, which happened somewhere through season 4, the quality started declining. Season 6 was solid despite that but 5 and especially 7 & 8 sucked ass.

    • @Native_Creation
      @Native_Creation Před 8 měsíci +2

      GoT is still good, and even the last couple of seasons could have been good if executed better. D&D executed it in a different way and manner of speaking.

    • @desmondbrown2813
      @desmondbrown2813 Před 8 měsíci +4

      I sent this to any and everyone. And shared it multiple time. Ryan's pitch meeting was the PERFECT response to the dreck Dumb & Dumber tried to feed us. From cultural phenomenon to forgettable trash in 6 episodes. Understanding it slid in quality after season 5 we were still willing to forgive if it finished well. What an absolute waste.

    • @xancypillosi9497
      @xancypillosi9497 Před 8 měsíci

      R u dumb. Anyone who is a true thrones fan, knows why. Fool

  • @thebratqueen
    @thebratqueen Před 8 měsíci +63

    It's wild to think that the more time passes the more people will forget that so much of what producer guy is saying was actually what D&D were told. They could've had all the time and money they wanted but they turned it down because they were already thinking about their next series. It became something like karmic payback that the next series never happened.

    • @thelittlemoonling
      @thelittlemoonling Před 4 měsíci +2

      Well said

    • @mad2403
      @mad2403 Před 3 měsíci

      yup and now they are basically begging people to watch their new Netflix show which ironically is also based on books it does look decent but i can't bring myself to support those morons

  • @pawanmirchandani83
    @pawanmirchandani83 Před 8 měsíci +356

    This man really aged himself ~35 years for, like, three seconds of video. Truly a committed content creator.

    • @Cludnugget
      @Cludnugget Před 8 měsíci +68

      No, he de-aged himself for the rest of the video. Remember he's been time traveling since the 90s.
      (Now I think about it it doesn't actually matter what decade you begin time traveling because.. y'know.. time travel.. Whatever, he's old now because of time travel.)

    • @kingmalcolm8695
      @kingmalcolm8695 Před 8 měsíci +15

      Wait. Are you saying that's _not_ a cameo of his grandpa?

    • @TheGorque
      @TheGorque Před 8 měsíci +6

      I thought that was just David Lynch?

    • @Anudist
      @Anudist Před 8 měsíci +2

      Pretty sure that's Tim Allen as Santa.

    • @Kinodawker
      @Kinodawker Před 8 měsíci +6

      Yeah. It’s so cool that he waited so long before starting his channel for a 3 second joke, even though he already recorded all these videos

  • @latue87
    @latue87 Před 8 měsíci +143

    That season 8 pitch meeting was so cathartic. I'm glad it exists

    • @bassmunk
      @bassmunk Před 8 měsíci +1

      In the interview he did with Jabby, that's exactly what he said about making it. And I'd say that that's exactly why it was so popular, cuz it was equally as therapeutic for everyone else lol We all needed it! hahaha

  • @Athena-vs4cv
    @Athena-vs4cv Před 8 měsíci +194

    Only Ryan is capable of reigniting my GoT Season 8 anger, then soothing it in the most wholesome, funny way possible 😄 Thanks for your many hours of hard work producing the pitch meetings Ryan 👏👏👏

    • @CorePathway
      @CorePathway Před 4 měsíci

      It’s the final stage of grief: Ryan helps us ACCEPT that this actually happened, and justifies our grief by summarizing how much of a departure and disappointment this season was from what we spent almost a decade loving.

  • @tolstoy143
    @tolstoy143 Před 8 měsíci +109

    “Would you like some more time? You can have it…”
    “…no!”
    That facial expression at 4:10 makes me lol every time!

  • @ericz9527
    @ericz9527 Před 8 měsíci +207

    Seeing behind the scenes footage of Ryan not talking during the other Ryan's dialogue is TIGHT

  • @The_British_Queen
    @The_British_Queen Před 8 měsíci +470

    I like watching these videos of these two completely different people communicating together.

    • @premiumheadpats4150
      @premiumheadpats4150 Před 8 měsíci

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @warcanon9546
      @warcanon9546 Před 8 měsíci +10

      Watching people is Tight!

    • @Koduhhhh
      @Koduhhhh Před 8 měsíci +7

      Likewise. Watching two completely diff people communicating in a video is super easy, barely an inconvenience.

    • @CorporealFixation
      @CorporealFixation Před 8 měsíci +1

      ​@@warcanon9546 "Wait, what?"

    • @johnaart
      @johnaart Před 8 měsíci +5

      Watching two completely different people communication together is TIGHT!!

  • @InvaderCom
    @InvaderCom Před 8 měsíci +95

    Fun fact: That was the first pitch meeting I ever saw! Saved me the time of watching the season and entertained me far better than it likely would have! And here we are years later still going strong!

    • @cameron9359
      @cameron9359 Před 8 měsíci +2

      If you watched the whole show you should still watch season 8. It’s ass but you can see what they were going for.. there is 2 seasons Jammed in but if done right it coulda been great

    • @InvaderCom
      @InvaderCom Před 8 měsíci +3

      @@cameron9359 I do not want to spend the time watching something I know I will be dissapointed by. I am more than okay dropping a show if it screws itself. At least like this my last memories of watching the show were enjoyable

    • @7PlayingWithFire7
      @7PlayingWithFire7 Před 8 měsíci

      ​@InvaderCom best part is that you can rewatch the old stuff without hating it

    • @Hirnlego999
      @Hirnlego999 Před 7 měsíci

      Not everything with it is bad though, obviously it still required quite a bit of work

    • @thelittlemoonling
      @thelittlemoonling Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@InvaderComgood idea. It’s absolute trash. Don’t let anyone convince you to watch it. I still try to watch the first seasons sometimes still but I can’t unsee that stupid ending and it hurts 😂

  • @JammalSonOfJammal
    @JammalSonOfJammal Před 8 měsíci +60

    I love that Ryan always shows up for the thing I'm watching. It's so considerate of him

  • @emforsa
    @emforsa Před 8 měsíci +306

    This episode was how I got introduced to pitch meetings...I remember being frustrated with GOT ending so much I wanted to know what others felt about it too 😂

    • @qzbnyv
      @qzbnyv Před 8 měsíci +11

      Yesss. Though for me it was "The Last Jedi" that brought me into the Pitch Meeting world.

    • @WombatMan64
      @WombatMan64 Před 8 měsíci +11

      And after being introduced to PM, going through the back catalogue was super easy, barely an inconvenience.

    • @jennifere.pergola598
      @jennifere.pergola598 Před 8 měsíci +9

      Same here! I thought the video was fantastic, and then jumped down the Pitch Meeting rabbit hole soon afterward! 😆

    • @mile_high_topher
      @mile_high_topher Před 8 měsíci +6

      @@WombatMan64 Ryan's back catalogue is TIGHT.

    • @sabee3064
      @sabee3064 Před 8 měsíci +5

      Me too lol! So something good came out of that final season.

  • @dfolz1101
    @dfolz1101 Před 8 měsíci +172

    Ryan managed to touch on every major grievance the fans had in like 5 minutes and only a few days after the shows conclusion 😂

    • @Chronically_ChiII
      @Chronically_ChiII Před 8 měsíci +1

      He didn't talk about how every major military expert is a complete pants on the head retard.
      "You put the siege balistas IN FRONT OF THE WALL??"
      "You... charged the cavalry without flanking it... IN COMPLETE DARKNESS? That's not how you use cavalries! "
      Because Hollywood directors are so bad writers, they should hire military tacticians to look for flaws.

    • @davidbonar5190
      @davidbonar5190 Před 8 měsíci +2

      imagine how often he watched the final season in those few days to nail down all the juiciest most disappointing material.. blregh :D

  • @fallendayfan
    @fallendayfan Před 8 měsíci +12

    GoT season 8 pitch meeting is what got me to pitch meeting and I’ve been hooked ever since. For me, it was the repeated joke of the producer trying to get the writer to agree to more episodes and the writer both cursing the fact that there weren’t enough episodes to tell the story, while staunching resisting attempts to add more. Brilliant :)

  • @desmondbrown2813
    @desmondbrown2813 Před 8 měsíci +38

    This was the first experience with this sketch, and it was so absolutely amazingly accurate and on point I've never left. And after 7 seasons this was the most cathartic thing ever. Needed ALL OF IT! THANK YOU! SCREW YOU Dan & Dave!!!

    • @beesmitty3435
      @beesmitty3435 Před 8 měsíci

      Check out glidus channel he was my therapy after the show..
      Imo it was the whole bring an undead and show cersei so she joins forces w us that took the show off the logical rails and it never gets back on track.

  • @The_AndroidSentByCyberlife
    @The_AndroidSentByCyberlife Před 8 měsíci +143

    I pray Ryan Renolds sees this and goes on the show! That'd work perfectly

    • @my3dviews
      @my3dviews Před 8 měsíci +13

      Then there would be three Ryans. Or would that be four Ryans? 🤔

    • @mallorycarpinski1160
      @mallorycarpinski1160 Před 8 měsíci +8

      I can't imagine the Ryanverse brain bending that would ensue...

    • @Mithorium
      @Mithorium Před 8 měsíci +10

      Four Ryans are tight

    • @Merkkari
      @Merkkari Před 8 měsíci +2

      Yes!

    • @AC-hj9tv
      @AC-hj9tv Před 8 měsíci

      Miss me w that

  • @dietotaku
    @dietotaku Před 8 měsíci +73

    a ryan reynolds pitch meeting collab is the most perfect thing in the universe that i never knew i wanted more than air until this moment

  • @opuanwar5775
    @opuanwar5775 Před 8 měsíci +15

    "It's a very forgettable horse" 😅 Thanks for all the videos Ryan! Looking forward to many more. They're usually my first port of call after watching a movie.
    Seeing the sun is overrated!

  • @omgthisissoawesome
    @omgthisissoawesome Před 8 měsíci +17

    This was the first Pitch Meeting I ever saw, and the week following, I watched every single other pitch meeting that was on the channel. I'm so glad you didn't stop making them!! So many years later and they're still just as brilliant.

  • @FelipeKana1
    @FelipeKana1 Před 8 měsíci +32

    Love how the producer keeps offering more screentime but the writer really really don't want any of it

  • @davidlane1248
    @davidlane1248 Před 8 měsíci +123

    Ahh... The video that introduced me to the Pitch Meetings skits and changed my life forever after

  • @pascalcallemien2498
    @pascalcallemien2498 Před 7 měsíci +8

    Your Pitch Meetings are not only extremely funny, they are also great reviews. In 5 minutes you show every weak plotpoint in every movie, even movies that are considered masterpieces, Your concept seems so simple, but it is so brilliant, and as usual with content-creation it probably takes up a lot of your time, so thank you for the effort and the fun.

  • @logandh2
    @logandh2 Před 8 měsíci +4

    My favorite thing from GOT going down in flames is that D&D rushed it so they could get started on their Star Wars thing started, but because GOT crashed and burned they got fired from their Star Wars thing

  • @planetofcows
    @planetofcows Před 8 měsíci +312

    Has there ever been a pitch meeting you didn't want to do but you did it anyway? Maybe because of expectations from the audience?

  • @Brianlp32
    @Brianlp32 Před 8 měsíci +55

    i love how in this one the producer tries his best to save the season instead of sabotaging it.

    • @jamielondon6436
      @jamielondon6436 Před 8 měsíci +17

      And it's just a reflection of reality, too, because HBO essentially offered Dumb and Dumber *all the money* to continue GoT for as long as they needed!

  • @michaeldobson107
    @michaeldobson107 Před 8 měsíci +46

    Literally hit the nail on the head with every point, as usual. Ryan's videos should be required viewing for every writer, director and producer who comes up with an idea for a film or TV series. Season 8 will forever be viewed as the most epic failure of a series in television history.

    • @AdiBronshtein
      @AdiBronshtein Před 8 měsíci

      Seriously, these videos need to be in the syllabi of every film & TV studies degree!

  • @TheArtmann
    @TheArtmann Před 8 měsíci +7

    "The Council of Surviving Characters" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @anttikettunen8601
    @anttikettunen8601 Před 8 měsíci +141

    Damn. I never knew Ryan went through so much trouble just to pick the right questions. Hat's off to you sir!

    • @vandal280
      @vandal280 Před 8 měsíci +13

      He's incredibly dedicated to his craft

    • @patternofcitation3935
      @patternofcitation3935 Před 8 měsíci +21

      You spelled rubble wrong

    • @anttikettunen8601
      @anttikettunen8601 Před 8 měsíci +7

      @@patternofcitation3935 ohhh that's a good one

    • @rik80280
      @rik80280 Před 8 měsíci +2

      I haven’t laughed that hard at a pitch meeting in months.

    • @Shadow-Shell
      @Shadow-Shell Před 8 měsíci +2

      I liked this video just for that

  • @VictorDiGiovanni
    @VictorDiGiovanni Před 8 měsíci +66

    This remains my favorite Pitch Meeting. I'm so grateful it allowed me a very tiny respite from the crushing disappointment of Season 8.

    • @booshmcfadden7638
      @booshmcfadden7638 Před 8 měsíci +7

      It's the first one I ever saw. I was looking for a reviewer to hate season 8 as much as me and found this. I've seen all of them, now. Several more than once.

    • @chaosiscoming9184
      @chaosiscoming9184 Před 8 měsíci

      this was my favourite Pitch meeting first

  • @michaelkoolidge
    @michaelkoolidge Před 8 měsíci +5

    This was the very first pitch meeting I ever watched, and to me it’s still the best one

  • @EMTgamer
    @EMTgamer Před měsícem +2

    You'll never read this - but your work is great. So many laughs with family and friends for years now. Appreciate all the joy you bring, you're awesome. Thanks.

  • @carolinareader6386
    @carolinareader6386 Před 8 měsíci +83

    That pitch meeting was so spot on. The story and the characters deserved more time

  • @jopepe2867
    @jopepe2867 Před 8 měsíci +46

    Honestly my fave Pitch Meeting ever. When Im sad, I just go watch it for a laugh.

  • @gwenivercall
    @gwenivercall Před 8 měsíci +19

    I have a love/hate relationship with your 'I forgot . . .' riff. Because it's incredibly funny every time, but then I remember that an actual person who was an actual screenwriter said "Dany kind of forgot about the Iron Fleet . . ."
    Oh season 8.

    • @TragoudistrosMPH
      @TragoudistrosMPH Před 8 měsíci +4

      More gruesome than the red wedding, lol.
      "She forgot"
      HOW?!?!

  • @BusWindow
    @BusWindow Před 8 měsíci +4

    Oh man, I'm so sad I didn't catch this video when it came out. I was one of the people that got hooked on Pitch Meetings because of this episode. I was never a fan of Game of Thrones in the first place but was fascinated by fast it went from one of the most popular and beloved series to absolutely ragged on by everyone I knew. Then I watched nearly every pitch meeting previously and since and the rest is history.

  • @dtglck4fkds
    @dtglck4fkds Před 8 měsíci +64

    This was the pitch meeting that got me hooked! Just amazing on so many levels - taking actual quotes from the producers ("She forgot").
    I still can't believe Ryan missed the Arya saying 'I know a killer when I see one" referring to Dany to Jon.... as she talks to him in the smoldering ruin of Kings Landing with non-combats single handily murdered by Dany the thousands.

    • @jamielondon6436
      @jamielondon6436 Před 8 měsíci +3

      Well, she's not wrong. ;-)

    • @dtglck4fkds
      @dtglck4fkds Před 8 měsíci +1

      @@jamielondon6436 Ha ha indeed

    • @DrMcFly28
      @DrMcFly28 Před 8 měsíci +3

      She KINDA forgot.
      I don't know why, but that word just makes it so much worse.

    • @mile_high_topher
      @mile_high_topher Před 8 měsíci +1

      @@DrMcFly28 She remembered, then she kinda forgot, then she remembered again. Kinda.

  • @mjsabie8517
    @mjsabie8517 Před 8 měsíci +53

    This one has a special place for me as it was the first Pitch Meeting I ever saw… it was soooooo much better than GoT season 8. I shared it with everyone I knew and have now seen every pitch meeting.

    • @sdfhkm
      @sdfhkm Před 8 měsíci +1

      Same here! I came across this one accidentally and enjoyed it so much that I spent the next six or seven days binge watching 250+ Pitch Meetings 😅 it was super easy tho, barely an inconvenience!

    • @vandal280
      @vandal280 Před 8 měsíci

      The first one I saw was for Squid Games after a local radio host mentioned it being funny on air. I was instantly hooked, watched everything Ryan's ever made, and am now a forever fan. He's a comedic genius. Have you watched his First Guy series? Or the videos about how things got their names? They're wonderful

  • @ChrisInScotland
    @ChrisInScotland Před 8 měsíci +8

    This was the first pitch meeting I ever saw, it was perfect. Accurate. Cutting without being mean.

  • @_TheCakeIsALie_
    @_TheCakeIsALie_ Před 8 měsíci +5

    This was my very first pitch meeting i ever saw from you. I loved it immideatly but didnt know this was a series. Some months later, i got a second one reccomended and realized there where many. I think i binge watched every single one out then in one day and saw every video after. Thank you so much for making me laugh for years now

  • @dandychiggins7240
    @dandychiggins7240 Před 8 měsíci +42

    Oh yes, how to forget one of the most passionate pitchs, you can almost taste the anger and sadness

    • @jamielondon6436
      @jamielondon6436 Před 8 měsíci +1

      The defeated look of Producer Guy when Writer Guy turns down the offer of more seasons again is everything!

  • @fairycakes3930
    @fairycakes3930 Před 8 měsíci +55

    I could (and probably) have watched this Pitch Meeting hundreds of times. Utterly gleaming. It’s like potted Glidus. Wonderful. Thank you for doing what you do Mr George

    • @MyBiPolarBearMax
      @MyBiPolarBearMax Před 8 měsíci +4

      Ive unironically watched this so many times.
      I will never not be mad about this lol

    • @lukaslambs5780
      @lukaslambs5780 Před 8 měsíci +6

      Glidus as in the youtuber? I am a huge fan of Glidus! He’s an awesome GOT youtuber! Def check him out!

    • @oliver6969
      @oliver6969 Před 8 měsíci

      If you want to, you can have some more time sir

  • @manthony1058
    @manthony1058 Před 8 měsíci +6

    This was the pitch meeting that brought me to your videos. Since then I think I've watched them all.... On repeat!
    Keep up the good work!

  • @stephaniev4444
    @stephaniev4444 Před 8 měsíci

    You are absolutely correct. I found you through this original Pitch Meeting. The big eye filter was a good touch too bc I was excited to hear you go off about GOT in a high pitch voice filter. I was slightly disappointed that there was no voice changer, but I got over it real quick bc it was so funny. Love you! You're amazing! ❤️

  • @awesomo925
    @awesomo925 Před 8 měsíci +35

    I'll never forget just how excited I was when the season 8 premier was about to air. It's hard to remember me ever being so excited for a show ever. I can't believe how badly this season fumbled. It almost feels legendary.

  • @104snowstorm
    @104snowstorm Před 8 měsíci +28

    @10:38 Personally part of the reason I liked the GoT Season 8 pitch meeting *was the fact that it was aimed at the showrunners. It was cathartic to see even this this chaotic good venue bashing their poor decisions

    • @PaolaRL
      @PaolaRL Před 8 měsíci

      Yes!!!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

    • @AB-fh9zh
      @AB-fh9zh Před 8 měsíci

      And it's just 'a brief list of some of the things wrong with it'.

  • @hirollerromeo
    @hirollerromeo Před 8 měsíci +1

    This was the first Pitch Meeting I ever saw, and I've been obsessed ever since! Love that he's doing a re-visit video on it.

  • @prestonbane4176
    @prestonbane4176 Před 5 měsíci +1

    So glad you stuck around! It sounds like I discovered Pitch Meeting right when you were maybe gonna wrap it up, but I was going through the worst breakup of all time and having 200 of your videos to watch REALLY helped 😆😆

  • @TheDarkbluerock
    @TheDarkbluerock Před 8 měsíci +67

    Hey Ryan! Thanks for the countless laughs! What's in your opinion the most underrated pitch meeting and why?

  • @Tera_GX
    @Tera_GX Před 8 měsíci +10

    I never got into Game of Thrones, but I absolutely loved how everyone everywhere was talking about it. When it was airing, when it was between seasons, it was regular. It's fun seeing so many people bonding over a common thing. And then there was an explosion of how everyone hated the final season followed by no one talking about Game of Thrones. I'm still shocked by how that transition felt.

  • @fullmetalx225
    @fullmetalx225 Před měsícem

    This was the first pitch meeting I ever saw and it led me to watching almost all of your others. So great!

  • @ammonkretchman493
    @ammonkretchman493 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Loved this! Your explanation on how you pick which questions to answer seems 100% reasonable and it's nice to see that you're such a grounded, responsible human being.
    I just wanted to pop in here and ask when you're gonna do a pitch meeting for Across the Spiderverse!! :)

  • @elishuster5943
    @elishuster5943 Před 8 měsíci +36

    I would absolutely love seeing you do a collab with Ryan Reynolds. Also on you're other channel please do a First Guy to ever get a Tattoo!

  • @Jwaxenbaum602
    @Jwaxenbaum602 Před 8 měsíci +20

    This is the pitch meeting that introduced me to pitch meetings! I was on a bender watching every season 8 deconstruction video and I came across this and I must have watched it a dozen times over the years and it's great every time!

  • @dvs9019
    @dvs9019 Před 8 měsíci +3

    I'm so happy that you're revisiting the very first video I ever watched on your channel. The one that started it all for me 😌

  • @pinecactus9672
    @pinecactus9672 Před 8 měsíci +3

    This pitch meeting perfectly and succinctly summarized all the problems with season 8.

    • @bobs_toys
      @bobs_toys Před 8 měsíci

      It feels like he could have taken more time to do it.

    • @scottslotterbeck3796
      @scottslotterbeck3796 Před 8 měsíci +1

      Could have been really, really great...but wasn't.

  • @Thebigbad1013
    @Thebigbad1013 Před 8 měsíci +20

    This is one of my absolute favorite pitch meetings, just perfection!

  • @kentslocum
    @kentslocum Před 8 měsíci +40

    I am really enjoying this new format of reviewing older Pitch Meetings; I don't think I've ever laughed as hard as I did with this one!

  • @ryankennedy9703
    @ryankennedy9703 Před 8 měsíci +7

    I love that I can still laugh at this pitch meeting when I never watched GOT.
    And I love this new format with answers to viewers questions
    Hope Ryan Reynolds accepts the offer

  • @MrChallacombe
    @MrChallacombe Před 8 měsíci +49

    Over the years I've thought maybe the end wasn't that bad. But watching this reminded me that yes it was. Loved all the jokes re. being able to have extra episodes

  • @projectangryman
    @projectangryman Před 8 měsíci +15

    The lengths you go to for picking the question is admirable, I mean wow that’s hard work and commitment right there. You deserve all your success.

    • @my3dviews
      @my3dviews Před 8 měsíci +1

      Except that the arson thing could come back to bite him. 😂

    • @projectangryman
      @projectangryman Před 8 měsíci +1

      @@my3dviews 🤣 if there isn't anymore videos from now on, we know why.

  • @MrAbsolem
    @MrAbsolem Před 8 měsíci +13

    This was my first Pitch Meeting, ever. And I remember feeling "seen" so much, it translated everything I was feeling at that moment. And then I proceeded to watch every single one of them lol

  • @imkitcat11
    @imkitcat11 Před 6 měsíci

    I have loved/followed Screen Rant for the past 7 years at least... They have been one of the most primary sources of realistic/dry/comical entertain in regards to cinema reviews in a long time. They’re honestly the shortened version of “cinemasins” that the world needed. Thank you for years of entertainment, and I’m so happy to see how far this segment has come. You are an amazing/consistent source of tears and laughter ❤ Please continue to be you and thank you again for all that you do 🥰

  • @DexTag
    @DexTag Před 5 měsíci

    I like the personal take on this at the end and yea, the Pitch Meeting was definitely a turning point. It was so good I just watched it last night and rewatched it here again. They are pretty much perfectly done to portray what people are thinking into a director - publisher kind of view, like if the audience thinks something was cheaply done, they will just blatantly say they don't care. And it's usually really spot on while adding a bunch of top notch humor on top of it, I've binged a lot of them and have been laughing quite a few times over the jokes/perfect timing/editing of them. Well done and I hope that you keep going with it!
    Edit: Omg I want to see Ryan Reynolds so badly and I hope you 2 can come up with some hilarious breaking of the usual theme, like him as publisher talking as producer or something to just completely break how it usually is xD

  • @kboett77
    @kboett77 Před 8 měsíci +26

    The GoT season 8 was my first pitch meeting! It was just what I needed at that moment of confusion and upset and I'm so glad to have found RG's content as a result of it!

  • @angrytechaddict7803
    @angrytechaddict7803 Před 8 měsíci +20

    This one was so on point and just perfectly hilarious, that I am probably responsible for 1 million views alone by me watching it over and over again and recommending it to everyone who also suffered through this season eight

  • @sak8264
    @sak8264 Před 8 měsíci +1

    This was the first pitch meeting I ever saw and is still one of my favorites!

  • @jamesanderson8338
    @jamesanderson8338 Před 8 měsíci

    So glad this put you on the map! Love this content.

  • @HaelinX
    @HaelinX Před 8 měsíci +8

    "Two of her dragons died, a couple of her friends.. Her nephew doesn't want to sleep with her" lmao😂
    Never change Ryan!, Never change

  • @Chris_Myers.
    @Chris_Myers. Před 8 měsíci +10

    *Question*: Have you ever felt any burnout or fatigue around creating Pitch Meetings?
    You seem to have fun with them, but many also seem like they take a ton of work and I know a lot of people find this type of “repetitive” creative work very depleting after a few years.
    P.S. Love your work and candidness with us. Thanks for all you do man!

  • @Rubbly
    @Rubbly Před 8 měsíci +1

    I really enjoy these revisits! The jokes throughout are fun but its nice when you sincerely speak about things.
    GoT S8 certainly made a lot of people mad, glad you got something out of it with this channel!

  • @rememberingmogu
    @rememberingmogu Před 8 měsíci +1

    This was the most savage burn of any pitch content you've ever done! My hats off to you, sir

  • @ninjanape
    @ninjanape Před 8 měsíci +23

    This was my first ever Pitch Meeting 😂🎉❤
    This was also a big comfort after the horrible mess of season 8 😢

  • @awful_sniper
    @awful_sniper Před 8 měsíci +14

    This was the first Pitch Meeting I ever saw! What started the whole obsession 😂
    Glad it's getting a revisit

  • @bswerves12
    @bswerves12 Před 8 měsíci +1

    This was first pitch meeting that showed up in my algorithm. And still probably the 🐐 pitch meeting

  • @aaront4494
    @aaront4494 Před 8 měsíci

    Ryan thanks for being here to spread your joy to all of us

  • @motherofmudkips
    @motherofmudkips Před 8 měsíci +18

    It's still one of the funniest pitch meetings I've ever seen. Thank you for the revisit

  • @Dani4Equality
    @Dani4Equality Před 8 měsíci +21

    Literally the video that made me subscribe to Screen Rant and learn what a comedic genius Ryan is. 👏

  • @GrimSidius
    @GrimSidius Před 8 měsíci

    This pitch was indeed what brought me to you, many years ago...and it's been a glorious handful of years since sir. Thanks for the years of entertainment.

  • @jamesw3746
    @jamesw3746 Před 8 měsíci

    I'm normally not a fan of reaction videos, which are like the laziest possible content, and these revisits are basically reaction videos. You give so much insight into your creative process in your commentary that I actually look forward to these more than new Pitch Meetings