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Originally Posted by Matty81
I just think the writing is catering to the new broader fanbase it's acquired a bit and that is why the narrative approach has changed so much. Also wouldn't surprise me if they are saving more characters now because it's in their own financial best interest.
The core who started with the show were the book ppl, nerdy fantasy readers who lived for the details. It's so popular in the mainstream now... There are folks watching it who would never in a million years have picked up one of the books. They want to spend time with the people they like after almost a decade, see big action and have a couple easy to follow backstabbings or other dramatic twists and probably are going to glaze over if they try something too complex like that bran/lord of light thing.
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I think you're right. But I still don't really understand the change in tack.
1) Show with X approach becomes extraordinarily popular.
2) So many people watch it now that we can't take X approach, we have to take Y approach.
If the show became popular with X approach, why change? Why not keep giving the audience X?
Maybe a lot of the people who came to the series once it was a phenomenon don't really want X - they just started watching because it was popular. I don't know. But I just don't get how many shows change once they become popular and stop doing the things that made them popular in the first place.