and they needed to be full seasons and not the shorter and shorter seasons they were running towards the end. 8 episodes was too short (and the production sched

and they needed to be full seasons and not the shorter and shorter seasons they were running towards the end. 8 episodes was too short (and the production schedule far too long) let alone 6 episodes. Perfectly eulogized by the pitch meeting guy: “sorry, just not enough time!!!” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jAhKOV3nImQ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jAhKOV3nImQ top comment: > You wanna know how bad season 8 was? We are in The middle of a long quarantine, and not a single person I know is rewatching this show. Hard to overstate how bad hbo fucked up there, I wish they’d have thrown it away and just reshot it with a team who wanted to be there. (the directors needed it to be over so they could go do Star Wars… and Disney was so dismayed with how unprofessionally they’d handled it that they took Star Wars away from them lol.)