You could write a book on all the hatred that the last season of “Game of Thrones” received, and it would always be released earlier than “The Winds of Winter” by George Rr Martin. Even the actor of Littlefinger Aidan Gillen had unpopular opinions on how things ended in the closing chapter, and Gwendoline Christie thought that season 8 was “designed to break” the casting.

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It shouldn’t be like that. In fact, the creator of the Seven Kingdoms himself revealed that requests had been made to HBO to stretch “Game of Thrones” beyond his eighth season, which ended with only six episodes instead of the typical 10. Speaking The Wall Street Journal About the past negotiations that did not go as planned, Martin recalled: “I said that it had to be at least 10 seasons and perhaps 12, 13. I lost this one.”

The responsibility for the condensation of history has rather been left to the showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss, who chose the route that the program finally borrowed, only for it to be torn apart by fans and criticism. The Swift Decline of Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) and the Decision to make bran the Broken (Isaac Hempstead Wright) King of the Seven Kingdoms, While Heavily Criticized, Might Not Have Draw Such Backlash If a Little More Time Had Been Take concluded The ends of their character and others. At this stage, however, Martin had already separated from the live adaptation of his works and had returned to the literary version that he had not yet finished.

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After the misstep which was the closing punch of “Game of Thrones”, George RR Martin seems to have taken more control over how stories in his universe, past and present, played in the future. This was clearly explained to the author during the creation of “House of the Dragon”, the show which took place 200 years before the events of “Game of Thrones”. “I had no contribution to the latest seasons, except, you know, by inventing the world, the story and all the characters,” said Martin in 2022. “I think I have more influence now than in the original show.”

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Even after the fans felt bitter by the way things went by seeing Jon Snow (Kit Harington) return beyond the wall and all the royal procedures managed by the coldest guy of all westeros, it was clear that there would always be an audience for this world when The final of season 1 of “House of the Dragon” has been closest since the final of the series of “Game of Thrones”. While the show as a whole could still find it difficult to compete with the number of his predecessor, HBO still has other stories planned to be told, including “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms”, which should be released later this year before obtaining the third and fourth season of “House of the Dragon”. SOmehing’s I have to get rid of us while we expect a book that we will never have, right?

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