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TruckOSaurus on 20 May 2019
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Hiku said:
KiigelHeart said:

These writers also brought you seasons that made you love the show. They were bringing GoT on screen. They were left with difficult task to continue GRRM's story, something even the author himself hasn't been able to do yet.

It is a difficult task to continue the story. I didn't expect much. But it's also a difficult task to botch it as badly as they did.

And there were problems with their priorities even early on in the series.

For example their insistence on spending a lot of time focusing on unimportant characters, or characters not in the books.
Talisa Stark is not in the books, and Rob Stark is not an important character in the books. But they focused a lot on these two, probably because they wanted the Red Wedding to have more shock value. And it did. But was it worth it when that time could have gone towards developing actual important characters? Or adding elements that are in the books but not in the TV show? 

In the end it's surprising how incredibly small the world feels now.
They wrote Dorn into a dead end. Whitewalkers, Children of the Forest, a lot of characters and houses, etc.

Catelyn not becoming Lady Stoneheart, Sansa being sent to Winterfell instead of the plot Littlefinger has for her in the Vale, Quentin and Arianne not existing at all, Tyrion taking a shortcut to reach Dany, Victarion Greyjoy not existing, the false Aegon Targaryen storyline being absent and probably many other plotlines I can't recall right now. So many possibilities squandered for a quick and cheap route to the endgame of the "main" characters.



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