According to interviews he did give them the broad strokes of how it should end, D+D are just so incompetent that he needed to give them a lot more for them to follow. Probably more than he’s even conceptualized yet lol.
Its interesting though, the stuff in the early seasons that were completely new additions that werent in the source text were actually good. Literally my favorite scene (Robert and Cersei talking about their marriage) isnt in the books. As far as I know, that was a D+D invention. So its weird to me that the same guys who did that couldn’t write without source material later on. Guess they can do detail work like that just fine but not broad arcs? idk.
According to interviews he did give them the broad strokes of how it should end, D+D are just so incompetent that he needed to give them a lot more for them to follow.
They also literally had a grudge against Emilia Clarke over her renegotiating her contract so she wouldn’t have to do nude scenes anymore back in the second season, which is when they started writing the end of her character’s story as a revenge fantasy against her personally. So it wasn’t even just incompetent writing, but them actively deciding early on to write a weird, misogynistic ending out of spite for an actress not wanting to be naked around them on the set.
According to interviews he did give them the broad strokes of how it should end, D+D are just so incompetent that he needed to give them a lot more for them to follow. Probably more than he’s even conceptualized yet lol.
Its interesting though, the stuff in the early seasons that were completely new additions that werent in the source text were actually good. Literally my favorite scene (Robert and Cersei talking about their marriage) isnt in the books. As far as I know, that was a D+D invention. So its weird to me that the same guys who did that couldn’t write without source material later on. Guess they can do detail work like that just fine but not broad arcs? idk.
They also literally had a grudge against Emilia Clarke over her renegotiating her contract so she wouldn’t have to do nude scenes anymore back in the second season, which is when they started writing the end of her character’s story as a revenge fantasy against her personally. So it wasn’t even just incompetent writing, but them actively deciding early on to write a weird, misogynistic ending out of spite for an actress not wanting to be naked around them on the set.
I think both HBO and G Martin proposed 10 seasons but D+D refused because they want to make disney films or something.
That being said, I don’t really care about the books anymore. It has been too long anyway, and I’m not re-reading