(August 29, 2017 at 11:42 am)Aroura Wrote: I'm not trying to pick on you, but really? It seems that the show has cut out all the fat, and if anything, has become a bit too streamlined.
Season 7 - perhaps. But before that, especially in season 6 there was plenty of "fat", like the Dorne plot, or Arya's antics with the Waif in Bravos. Not to mention Jorah's rather pointless grey-scale (the actual point of which was - from what I heard - for the actor to be free for some movie he was doing at the time). And w
(August 29, 2017 at 11:42 am)Aroura Wrote: Martin was the king of half baked plots that ended up being of no consequence, and the last 2 books were full of meandering plots, and predictable twists.
Face it, Martin lost control of this narrative at least 2 books ago. The current state of the story can be laid directly at his feet. His trick of pretending to kill off main characters for shock value could only last so long.
Maybe. However, books are quite a ways behind the show, so I won't be b*tching about them, until upon the release of the next one it becomes clear to me, that Martin lost a grip on his story. Secondly - many of the meandering plots of the last 2 books, involving way too many characters with unpronounceable names, are fairly developed stories all of their own, even if they ultimately may become inconsequential, whereas in the show things like the Dorne plot, Littlefinger's money-lending schemes, or Daenerys' Mereen plot were barely touched upon and then abruptly ended, when it became clear, that either the writers didn't know what to do with them, or that the audience was not particularly keen on them. I mean - if the Dorne plot in the books ends in the same way it did on the show, I'll be pretty miffed.
(August 29, 2017 at 11:42 am)Aroura Wrote: That being said, again imho, it's still a good story that I'm still looking forward to seeing the conclusion of.
The strength of the story lies in the expansive world that's been set-up and the characters populating it. Lost, or Dexter were arguably "good stories", although the conclusions were underwhelming, to say the least.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
