Games of Thrones author George RR Martin blasts House of the Dragon season 2 and shares concern "more toxic" changes are planned for season 3 in now-deleted post

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Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin took to his personal blog to write about his unhappiness with 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:House of the Dragon season 2 as well as concerns for season 3, before🌊 swif💜tly deleting the post.

 "I argued against it, for all these reasons," Martin wrote, detailing the 'Sophie's Choice' scene in Blood and Cheese involving Maelor's death (via . ) "I did not argue long, or with much heat, however. The change weakened the sequence, I felt, but only a bit. And [showrunner Ryan Condal] had what seemed to be practical reasons for it; they did not want to deal with casting another child, especially a two-year old to꧟ddler. Kids that young will inevitably slow down production, and there would be budget implications. Budget was already an issue on House of the Dragon, it made sense to save money wherever we could. Moreover, Ryan assured me that we were not losing Prince Maelor, simply postponing him ... That made sense to me, so I withdrew my objections and acquiesced to the change."

Martin went on to explain his concern for Maelor's absence across the next two seasons, which seems small in the grand scheme of things, but will have a snowball effect as the show continues. The show was greenlit for a third and fourth season, and will subsequen🔯tly end on the fourth according to Condal.

"Will any of that appear on the show? Maybe… but I don’t see how. The butterflies would seem to prohibit it … From what I know, that seems toꦗ be what Ryan is doing here. It’s simplest, yes, and may make sense in terms of budgets and shooting schedules. But ౠsimpler is not better … Maelor by himself means little. He is a small child, does not have a line of dialogue, does nothing of consequence but die… but where and when and how, that does matter."

The author ended on a rather omin🎶ous note: "And there are larger and more toxic butterflies to come, if House of the Dragon goes ahead with some of 𒁏the changes being contemplated for seasons 3 and 4…"

As previously stated, Martin didn't leave the blog up for long, and a﷽lthough we might never know the reason it got taken down, it's safe to say HBO probably wasn't happy about the author providing the main story for one of its biggest TV shows blasting its creative decisions publicly.

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