I understand their perspective. As others have mentioned, parsing down the books would have been a monumental undertaking in itself. However, with these notes it is not hard to see why the show started falling apart when they had no source material to work from.
Seems they really didn't invest that much Martin's works, which really shows up on screen when it was clear they had very little idea where to go with it all. Apart from Arya, the major implications of the characters' developments didn't really have a huge payoff.
If I'm reading this right, it's kind of alarming to know they didn't really take it as seriously as they should have from the get go. Although I am thankful we received about 5 seasons of truly epic television that may never be matched.
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