What Game of Thrones spinoff do fans most want to see? Check out the poll results!

So HBO is developing five different potential Game of Thrones spinoffs (or “successor shows,” as George R.R. Martin prefers to call them.) They’re all gonna be prequels, and none of them involve Robert’s Rebellion or the Tales of Dunk and Egg. Last week, we asked you guys to vote on which prequel you wanted to see most. Check out the results:

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Naturally, the show fans most want to see is one of the two we know we’re not getting. Spydrvyn explained why a Robert’s Rebellion show is so appealing:

Something about those passionate Baratheons that sets my heart aflame with fire. …. A young Stannis brooding and darkly handsome, Robert full of ‘vim and vigor’ ? Yes please…

For Davos 4 King, it’s more about schadenfreude:

I don’t like the Targaryens, so seeing them crushed would bring great joy. Robert’s Rebellion all the way and it’s not even a close second.

Not everyone is on board with the idea of a Robert’s Rebellion prequel, though. Firannion worries that it’d be too familiar:

A rehash of Robert’s Rebellion, with familiar characters recast, interests me the LEAST of all the options offered here. I’d much rather explore some other avenue of GRRM’s world, and it does NOT have to be ‘epic’ in scale to be compelling screen narrative. When all is said and done, it’s not the swordfights and explosions and monsters that draw me back to GoT; it’s the dialogue, the political scheming, the battles of wits. My favorite scenes usually involve only two people. So to me, Dunk & Egg represents the most promising canvas, only partially filled in so far – just enough to be intriguing. And it could be an opening for a whole new, younger audience demographic for whom GoT has not been family-friendly enough.

For the record, I’m in total agreement with Firannion — I think that a Robert’s Rebellion prequel would be too similar in tone to Game of Thrones, and that a Dunk and Egg show would feel fresh.

Not that it matters, of course, cause we’re not getting either of those. Martin doesn’t want to do a Dunk and Egg prequel until he’s written more of the story. As for Robert’s Rebellion, here’s his explanation:

[B]y the time I finish writing A SONG OF ICE & FIRE, you will know every important thing that happened in Robert’s Rebellion. There would be no surprises or revelations left in such a show, just the acting out of conflicts whose resolutions you already know. That’s not a story I want to tell just now; it would feel too much like a twice-told tale.

And that’s that. Fans of those two shows will have to keep on dreaming.

So what else is on the table? Brandon the Builder wants a show that involves some kind of fantastical element:

I think doing something with Aegon’s Conquest would be interesting, or the original attack of the [White Walkers] and the Wall’s construction. [That] would give us those elements of magic and tell one of the main backstories. I am also a fan doing the Dance of Dragons or the Blackfyre rebellions.

We don’t know a ton about Aegon Targaryen’s conquest of Westeros, and far less about the first time the White Walkers attacked humanity, necessitating the construction of the Wall. Both periods of Westerosi history are wide open.

Donald Lawrence suggests taking it back even further with a show about “the Five Forts,” a huge fortress at the boundaries of the empire of Yi Ti on Essos. The construction of the Five Forts is shrouded in mystery. Martin has said that some of the prequel shows “may not even be set on Westeros,” so something like this is definitely possible. HBO would pretty much have free reign to do whatever it wanted.

Along those lines, Snow Joke suggests something a little closer in time: “I would love to see Valyria at the height of its power and it’s downfall. How it became the home of the stone men.” That’s another one where HBO could fill in a lot of blanks, and another very popular choice.

The cleverly named Middlefinger, meanwhile, wants HBO to make up for botching the Dorne plot on Game of Thrones.

Dorne from ancient to present day. They made such a hash of it in seasons 5 and 6, they owe it a prequel. Even if they already messed up any Dornish master plans.

Dorne does have an incredibly rich history, from the way it was settled by the people of the Rhoynar to how it resisted the Targaryen invasion more successfully than any other group. There’s plenty of material there, and little to none of it involves the Sand Snakes.

Priscilla is also all for a Dornish show, although her preferences are a bit more specific:

Well, if you really want to know, I would love to see The Adventures of Oberyn Martell in Essos and Beyond. Sexy times, gore and amazing Dornish camp!

 

Is the world ready for the unfiltered adventures of Oberyn Martell? Such a show could change TV as we know it.

Getting creative, Bobby Kienitz has an idea for a multi-season series that covers all of this stuff:

1. Dawn age through the andal invasion
2. Age of Valyria / The Seven Kingdoms
3. Aegon’s conquest
4. Blackfyre rebellion
5. Dunk and Egg
6. Roberts Rebellion …. the Last scene of the season would be Pycelle sending the raven to Winterfell announcing Roberts heading north after Jons death.

I would totally be here for that.

Finally, let’s not forget that some people would rather not have prequels at all, like Da Illstate:

Same way I don’t want Star Wars to make “spin offs”/anthology movies is same reason I don’t want GoT to have “spin offs.” Just either continue the story or leave it alone. You can go back in time to explain things, but no “spin offs.”

I daresay we have some interesting years ahead of us.

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