{"id":48367,"date":"2024-03-23T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T07:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2013660"},"modified":"2024-03-23T11:10:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T10:10:49","slug":"game-of-thrones-creators-were-not-built-to-handle-millions-of-opinions","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/game-of-thrones-creators-were-not-built-to-handle-millions-of-opinions\/","title":{"rendered":"Game of Thrones creators: \u201cWe\u2019re not built to handle millions of opinions\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Benioff and DB Weiss have learnt to deal with huge levels of scrutiny. <\/p>

By Louise Griffin\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Saturday, 23 March 2024 at 07:00 AM<\/p>

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David Benioff and DB Weiss, the writers behind Game of Thrones<\/a>, have opened up about the level of scrutiny they dealt with while working on the hit fantasy show \u2013 and how they\u2019ve learnt to deal with it.<\/p>\n

The duo have now turned their hand to their biggest project since Thrones, Netflix\u2019s 3 Body Problem<\/a>, alongside writer Alexander Woo, and have told RadioTimes.com<\/a> that \u201cunplugging\u201d so as they don\u2019t have to deal with \u201cmillions\u201d of opinions is an essential part of the process now.<\/p>\n

Benioff explained: \u201cI think in the middle of the Thrones process, we realised that both for reasons of general productivity and mental health, that plugging into that isn\u2019t helpful. Trying to pay attention to what to what a million people or more are saying \u2013 we\u2019re not just built to handle that, we\u2019re not evolved to handle that.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaking a show already involves having to pay very close attention to what dozens or hundreds of people are saying at any given time, and that\u2019s the job, and if you don\u2019t do that, you\u2019re not going to do the job very well.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo try to do that while listening to millions of voices that are coming to you through your little black device of one kind or another, that\u2019s not helpful, at least in our minds.<\/p>\n

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Isaac Hempstead-Wright as Bran Stark and Max von Sydow as the Three-Eyed Raven.<\/span><\/figcaption> HBO<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

\u201cThere might be people who are maybe more digitally native than we are, who grew up with it and it\u2019s just a part of the way they process the world, but it\u2019s not for us.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we\u2019ve kind of chosen to unplug ourselves from from that side of things. It doesn\u2019t mean that you don\u2019t care what anybody thinks. On the contrary, we very much care what people think.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it doesn\u2019t mean that we don\u2019t want outside voices to help tell us how we\u2019re doing. We very much want that too.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the way you process the outside voices of the five people you show episode 2 and ask them \u2018Does this make sense?\u2019 is very different than the way you process what 10 million people think in 140 characters or less. I find the former to lend itself much better to doing good work and to having a good life than the latter.\u201d<\/p>\n

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John Bradley as Jack Rooney in 3 Body Problem.<\/span><\/figcaption> Netflix<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

All eyes are on how the pair fare with their new ambitious project, especially after the divisive reaction to Game of Thrones season 8 \u2013 but the reviews<\/a> so far have praised the series, based on Cixin Liu\u2019s original novels<\/a>, with Woo revealing that the author actually approved all the major changes<\/a> they made from the beginning.<\/p>\n

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