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Originally Posted by JFK
Martin's guiding hand? Lord almighty. That's the biggest tumor of a post in the most cancerous thread on Calgarypuck. Martin needs someone to guide him through his own novels, much less him helping a TV show.
Episodes four or five have been two of the best back-to-back episodes of the series and to nitnick it endlessly it's rather tiresome. You can go back and nitnick any episode from any season. People just complain and whine the longer a series go. A guy like Tinordi is just a wet blanket and will some thing to cry about, just the kind of poster he is.
The accelerated pass was surprising but I didn't find it jarring at all. It was only three weeks ago some posted wondering how they would wrap up the series with only X amount of hours left because episodes one and two were rather slow.
Things are winding down, there are less characters and the ones who are left are together. Instead of one or two scenes per episode each major character is getting several and loads of screen time, that leads to a faster pace.
I wonder if Jorah and Jon will get the chance to talk about Sam, and I'm curious if Joran recognizes his families sword in Jon's hand.
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I think there is some confusion.
I am not a book reader, I very much appreciate the jokes about Martin.
I just think there is a very obvious difference in the show when you compare the showrunner content with the content the showrunners drew from in the books.
I don't think it is as good. Probably because they are showrunners and not fantasy writers.
It's pretty meta if you think about it. Martin pulls some of the best bits from history, the showrunners pull the best bits from martin's books. I just think the show really suffers from not having well fleshed out stories and character and progression to draw on to build their show around.
I am still tuning in like a whipped dog every night to get my fill; I don't yell at my TV or anything. But the show is different and worse now even if it's more superficially entertaining and dazzling. I like dragons hurr durr.