You can write a book about all the hatred received by the last season of Game of Thrones, and will still come out earlier than George Rn Martin's "Winds of Winter". Even Littfinger's actor Aidan Gillen had some unpopular opinions about How things ended in the chapter to complete and Gwendolin Christie believed that Season 8 was "designed to break" the cast.

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However, it didn't have to be the case. In fact, the creator of the seven kingdoms revealed that demands were made to HBO to stretch Game of Thrones over his eighth season, which ended with only six episodes instead of the typical 10. Wall Street Journalournal For past negotiations that did not go as planned, Martin recalls: "I said it should be at least 10 seasons and maybe 12, 13. I lost it."

Instead, the responsibility for condensation of the story was left on the show -show David Benioff and DB Weiss, who chose the route that the show took, only to be torn apart by fans and critics. The rapid drop of Daniis Targaryen (Emilia Clark) and the decision to make a wave of broken (Isaac Hemsted Wright) The King of the Seven Kingdoms, while heavily criticized, may not withdraw such a reaction if a little more time to end the conclusion. The endings of their and another character. Until that point, Martin has already split ways with live adaptation to his works and returned to the literary version he was yet to finish.

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After the wrong steps that ended the stab of "Game of Thrones", it seems that Georgeorge RD Martin gained more control over how the stories in his universe, the past and the present, played ahead. This was abundantly clear to the author during the creation of the "Dragon House", the play that was set 200 years before the events of "Game of Thrones". "I had no contribution to the later seasons, except, you know, inventing the world, the story and all the characters," Martin explained in 2022. "I believe that now I have a greater impact than I did in the original show."

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Even after fans could feel tightened by how things went when they watched Jonon Snow (Keith Farrington) returning to Beyondid and all royal actions are kept by the coldest friend in all Westeros, it was clear that there would always be an audience. The finals of Season 1 of the Dragon House were the most closer than the final of the Game of Thrones series. While the show as a whole can still struggle to compete with its predecessor's number, HBO still scheduled to tell other stories, including "Knight of the Seven Kingdoms", which is published for publication later this year before winning the third and fourth season of the "Dragon House". SOmething is We had to attract us while waiting for a book we would never get, right?

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