Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26159109-20151217193854/@comment-1916997-20151218175914

Farerb wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: Farerb wrote: In my opinion, all these marketing tactics are ridiculus. They should just write a good show and people will watch it. GOT and TWD are not that marketable, but they became popular because of good writing. Season 1 was great because they had a story to tell, they had characters talking more than 30 seconds about emotions and not thrown into one action sequence after the other connecting them by vague explanations. Are you kidding me!?! Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead are not "that marketable"!?! First off, they are based off a book series and a comic book series respectively, which means they already had somewhat of a following of people before they even started the tv shows. Second, fantasy (with dragons) and horror (with zombies) are always highly marketable, as they are popular genres, and dragons and zombies are always very popular with people. Saying people only started watching these tv shows because they are well written is hilariously misinformed, and besides that, the way they are written is more a credit to George R.R. Martin and whoever writes the Walking Dead comics, then the shows writers, seeing as they are both adaptations. Before GoT, fantasy TV was not that marketable. It is known. Writing a book is different than putting it on screen, that credit belongs to the show's creators. That's because fantasy tv was not acheviable for the longest time, due to the money involved. Even then, certain sci fi and fantasy shows were plenty popular, dating far back, like Doctor Who and Star Trek. More recently, but still older, things like Buffy the Vampire Slayer were popular. So in conclusion, fantasy and sci fi have always been marketable. And no, if I write a book, and you adapt it to a movie, you should not get credit (or not much anyway). I did all the work with the characters, the world, the plot, etc. You just took my work and hired actors, set designers, etc. to make a visial version of what I had already made. Anyway, Esk is right, this is starting to get really off topic.