This sounds amazing. π±
Hopefully it will expand beyond kids' shows soon, but in the meantime, I'm going to check out Puss in Book. π
EDIT: Imagine a Game of Thrones style show, where you decide who wins the battles and who gets the Throne. That would be epic!
Well, that was disappointing. I just watched/played Puss in Book... Not even funny. Way too kiddish for my tastes, but children probably had fun with it. ππ€·πΌββοΈ
shareWell, I suspect Game of Thrones is more or less already like that. The showrunners decide who lives and who dies largely based on the character's rating by the audience. That's why all the surviving characters are all people's favorites like Daenerys, Jon Snow, Arya, Sansa, Tyrion, Cersei and Jaime. Just not as transparent as this Netflix service.
shareEh, I don't think viewer ratings have that much of a say; otherwise Stannis, Shireen, Rickon, Ned, Rob, the direwolves, Drogo, and many many others would still be alive. They also have the books and GRRM's master plan to go off of.
shareGoT premise was "anything can happen, no plot armor." This is already presented boldly by killing Ned Stark a few episodes in. But after the show goes past GRRM books, the showrunners tend to (in my obsevation) choose very very carefully about whom they might kill off.
Stannis is killed off after he sacrificed his own daughter. He cannot be everyone's favourite anymore, can he? Rickon is obviously the least popular of the remaining Starks. Direwolves are killed for some tear jerkers, there's just a miniscule chance that they are someone's most favorite characters.
The other characters you mentioned like Rob and Khal Drogo were killed off by GRRM as it was in the books, not by the showrunners. That's what make GoT great in the first place anyway, because GRRM at least has balls. The later episodes of the tv show on the other hand, again, I highly suspect is mostly based on statistics.
I might not even surprised if this innovative Netflix interactive plot service is inspired by how succesful the GoT showrunners did their job.
Horrible idea... the videogamefication of movies...
The whole point of watching a movie, or reading a book or listening to a song is to engagge with someone elses sensibility, it's primarily a passive experience and the idea is to be subjected to thw authors voice...
If the viewer chooses what happens then it becomes yet another excercise in self-centredness...