All I could think of when he did that was: He cheated not only the game, but himself. He didn't grow, He didn't improve. He took a shortcut and gained nothing. He experienced a hollow victory. Nothing was risked and nothing was gained. It's sad that he didn't know the difference.
I always thought that, while the show was still behind the books, it was a really great adaptation. I thought the cuts they made were often justifiable and made sense, although a few I was really surprised about (Lady Stoneheart chief among them). But once they no longer had the books to guide them, the storytelling took a noticeable turn. Not necessarily for the worse, it was just different. It wasn't really until last season that it got a little too sloppy, specifically with the timeline shenanigans. But overall as someone who has read all the books and seen the show I love them both.
The one plot from the books only that I'm most interested to see through to its conclusion is the Young Griff stuff. Really want to know how that affects things.
I remember a couple years after reading the books I would see people discuss more minute details like lyrics to songs and character descriptions or outfits and I thought “Oh right I mostly just skipped over that stuff cause it was super boring”
This show’s ending may be peak “you can’t please everyone”, but I have no idea what would be the least infuriating to the largest number of people at this point. I want Davos to go off and add soup to Hot Pie’s menu and really get things going culinarily in this world.
I really think once the show is done & over, I can try and separate myself enough to fully delve into the books. I own every one but Dragons, but I've only read the first one because I've been such a lazy reader these last few years haha
The expanse series has their last book coming out this year and the fourth season of the show will be out this year. Just another similar example. The books are nowhere near as complex as this series is. Highly recommend the books and show though.
When the show is over I’ll probably muster up the courage to finally pick up Fire & Blood. Haven’t read it yet.
Plus it’s easily solved. Thinking about that too much will make me need to go lie down for a while though.
It is definitely mostly just a history book, but as someone who has really fallen in love with the world, I enjoyed it. The 2nd half will be better IMO, when we get the blackfyre rebellions, Aegon V, and the Mad King
Yeah I know what it is, I just want to read it so I can continue feeling smarter than all of my friends who only watch the show. It's really all I have.
He’s actually said a couple of times that he considers them to be basically entirely different stories at this point
Wow, that’s very surprising. So all of his own story threads cause huge issues for where he needs to go/can’t go, but he doesn’t also get bogged down by details from what the show has done rattling around as well? I can’t even imagine trying to keep that all straight.