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Making 8 seasons of big budget show in over a decade is not being quickly bored of it. I think the part of fan base is entitled and unreasonable.

Next month we will "celebrate" 12th anniversary of A Dance with Dragons and The Winds of Winter is still nowhere in sight.

Well naturally it's on them to make popular and successful show again, but Netflix gave them a lot of money to do it. Just like HBO gave a lot of money for this show but how popular it's going to be in the long run is on Condal.

Rhaneyra's sons and especially Daemon's daughters have no personality. They don't know what to do with them.. Jace feels like bootleg Robb Stark.

And they still made much better show than Condal 😅 But their statements are mostly taken out of context by people who have David Benioff Derangement Syndrome. They are not blacklisted lol They made the most popular show in history. They will never be blacklisted. They are doing massive show for Netflix called The Three Body Problem, which is currently in post production. And they've had more other projects for Netflix like The Chair.

Rhaenyra's actions just feel too stupid. I can't take her seriously.

Including prophecy in House of the Dragon was confirmed to be idea from showrunners Condal and Sapochnik. They talked about it in interviews. And they said the intention was to connect two shows. And obviously Including dagger that was used to kill the Night King is part of that. It wasn't GRRM's idea to include that. They also talked a lot how there are basically two canons and HOTD is (naturally) part of GOT television canon. And I don't see how this prophecy contradicts anything that happened in the original show. Targaryen sitting on the Iron Throne was Viserys' interpretation of prophecy, not part of it. And prophecies shouldn't be taken too literally. They never really happen exactly as they are told. The interesting aspect is what they do to characters and their interpretations of prophecies, whether it's from Viserys or Melisandre.

Neither does he obviously. Showrunners of GoT had long meetings with GRRM where they've discussed the future of the story and that was confirmed by all sides including GRRM himself, who said just before S8 aired that the show's ending won't be that different from his and that it's based on his ideas from 20 years ago. Only when the ending became controversial he tried to distance himself from it. Which is really shitty behavior on many levels, especially when you consider that he is not capable of finishing even penultimate book, let alone the whole thing. Yes. And we should show him his quotes from before S8 aired. And tell him to finish the story or shut up forever because no one cares about his fake promises anymore. And descriptions how amazing his ending will be.

How it doesn't mean anything? It literally happened in the original show. Aegon united the realm to fight against the White Walkers.

Larys as a character makes no sense to me. His relationship with his family wasn't development but there is nothing that suggested that he hated his father and brother. His whole plan was very stupid and he sent people with his own symbol to do it. I mean really? And all of that to do what? He his nothing on Alicent. There is no reason for her to feel blackmailed by what he did.

Oh they ARE rushing and even more than GoT but the reason why they are rushing it is because they started too early First 5 episodes wasted time. That could've been covered differently.

They are not rushing. They started the story too early. It would've been much better to start here because first 5 episodes feel pointless and I don't see what we really got there that we wouldn't in a short exposition in the premiere.

This was the worst episode so far. It's rushed and at times nonsensical. Characters completely change personally between episodes and I often don't understand why they are doing what they are doing

This show will have amazing ratings. I hope GRRM officially stops wasting time with the books and concentrates only on Game of Thrones television universe.

That last blog post from George R.R. Martin completelly killed book fandom's hope for The Winds of Winter. His tone was tone deaf.