Wow, I’m glad this thread has been brought back to life, I adore this show and the books and it was almost perfect for the first 4 seasons. There’s so much above that I agree with entirely especially the idea of just editing individual moments in episodes. I agree about the detrimental affects the Young Griff cuts and Euron’s character assassination had, but the show is just too damn good to give up on and even the later seasons had some brilliant moments. I have been planning my own fan edit but there are some really tough things to fix from season 5-8 and on first read I agree most of these things look impossible. I’ll split this post into two because it’s long but here are some things that need to be improved imo:
Seasons 1-7 (mainly 5-7)
• Insert some deleted scenes
• Fix Melisandre’s missing necklace in the bath
• Fix the brief appearance of Beric Dondarion before he is sent to kill the Mountain (VFx change the actor’s head)
• The other actor changes are jarring but probably impossible to undo. The first Bloodraven guy maybe could be changed to Max Von Sydow as it is only one scene? I can’t remember how bad the second Mountain actor looked, did he ever remove his helmet?
• The Dorne plot is dreadful, ideally a whole new cast would need to be integrated from a different show entirely for a few (longish) scenes, just to imply that Doran Martell had a plan and was secretly plotting against the Lannisters instead of just being weak and pointless. We need to see more of Dorne and it’s people rather than just seeing the Water Gardens.
• As a minimum we need a better way to explain why Bronn and Jaime arrive in the water gardens at the exact same time as the sand snakes attack.
• Change how Areo Hotah is killed with a tiny knife in the back (can it be shown going into the back of his head?)
• Away from Dorne I hated how Brienne just turns up in time to kill Stannis. There needs to be an effects shot where Brienne is seen watching the end of Stannis’s defeat from the higher ground. She sees Stannis stagger into the woods before going to kill him
• Barristan Selmy doesn’t die like such a punk (Can he kill more Harpies or be sped up a bit Lol)
• Fix the vanishing dogs that attack Sansa/Theon
• The waif stabbing Arya. This was awful, try to cut the shot of the knife going into her belly and being twisted and leave it with the initial slash. Not easy.
• Improve the first Euron sea battle
• Don’t then show Euron’s ship at Casterley Rock unless it can time travel
• Show Bronn running away from Drogon after firing the scorpion at him
• Remove Jaime sinking in his armour after he charges the dragon
• Dany shouldn’t know who Randall Tarly is before questioning him
• Tyrion should be concerned for “missing” Jaime, maybe have him scanning the battlefield
• Davos is sent for a blacksmith and doesn’t revisit Gendry out of good will
• Bran has a better greensight vision where he sees the future (including capturing the wight etc, Viserion falling), which he then sends by raven to Jon and which then leads to the mission north of the wall (I stole this idea from above)
• Cersei has a better reaction to Dany’s impending attack and to Jaime secretly meeting Tyrion (she does a 180 degree switch over two scenes because of her pregnancy)
• Dany chooses to fly north of the wall on her own accord before Gendry runs back to Castle Black
• Improve Uncle Benjen’s death scene, have him take down a few more wights