George R.R. Martin Has the Same Game of Thrones Regrets You Do

We all have rather a lot in frequent with best-selling A Song of Ice and Fire writer George R.R. Martin. We’re all carbon-based lifeforms. None of us have printed a e book titled The Winds of Winter, though all of us would really like it to be out ASAP. And it seems all of us are bummed out about how HBO’s TV adaptation of GRRM’s fantasy epic, Game of Thrones, ended up.

According to an upcoming e book by the journalist James Andrew Miller, titled Tinderbox: HBO’s Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers (through Yahoo), Martin was nervous after season 5 ended and Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss began deviating from the writer’s plans for the story. According to Martin’s agent Paul Haas: “George loves Dan and Dave, but after season five, he did start to worry about the path they were going because George knows where the story goes. He started saying, ‘You’re not following my template.’”

According to the e book, Martin not solely wished Game of Thrones to run 10 seasons however went on to former HBO CEO Richard Plepler to request them. HBO, after all, would have been thrilled to air Game of Thrones till the warmth demise of the universe, however the showrunners had been dunzo (as was Kit Harington’s hair, on the very least). Per Haas: “Dan and Dave were tired, rightfully so. They were done, and wanted to move on, so they cut it short and then negotiations became, how many seasons can we stretch this out? Because of course HBO wanted more.”

To be a little bit truthful to Weiss and Benioff, season 5 principally used up the entire materials present in Martin’s printed A Song of Ice and Fire novels; whereas Martin reportedly advised them how he deliberate to finish the sequence, the duo would nonetheless must generate numerous narrative materials completely on their very own. And each the showmakers and the celebs (nicely, those whose characters lived) made Game of Thrones for eight years, which isn’t a brief period of time. It makes complete sense they’d need to transfer on to new tasks.

On the opposite hand, the present received exponentially worse throughout its final three seasons, as a result of it was so obvious that Weiss and Benioff had been making an attempt to wrap issues up as quickly as humanly potential. If Game of Thrones had 10 seasons to play out, Daenerys’s character arc from semi-benevolent conqueror to vengeful mass assassin might have been—and the operative phrase right here is might—developed in a means that felt natural and truthful as an alternative of rushed and nonsensical. Alas, we’ll have to attend till the inevitable 2032 Game of Thrones reboot to learn how the story ought to have ended… assuming, after all, The Winds of Winter is out by then.

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