Aragorn's Take On the Movies

[FerniesApple]

As regards GOT, HBO seem to be heavily consulting Martin at every step, and if the author himself agrees with the changes I dont see how anyone can moan about it. I think there is mutual respect between the two, and that is key. Respect. I think Martin is also open to fans voicing their concerns over character deaths too, ie nobody wants Tyrion to die in future episodes, and Martin may take that on board as he is writing, or the producers may give him a nudge if things are looking squishybloody. It seems a good way to do a show.

[Kuruharan]

Originally Posted by FerniesApple

As regards GOT, HBO seem to be heavily consulting Martin at every step, and if the author himself agrees with the changes I dont see how anyone can moan about it. I think there is mutual respect between the two, and that is key. Respect. I think Martin is also open to fans voicing their concerns over character deaths too, ie nobody wants Tyrion to die in future episodes, and Martin may take that on board as he is writing, or the producers may give him a nudge if things are looking squishybloody. It seems a good way to do a show.

I think you are a little too optimistic.

Lately, Martin seems to have been distancing himself more from the show, especially as the details of the show move further away from some of the details of his story.

Then there is also the inevitability that the TV show will pass the books and provide an ending to the series before Martin can (I happen to be in the camp of believing that the TV series ending will be largely the same as the intended ending of the novels.)

Now, this is not to say that Martin has distanced himself from the show in the same way that, for example, Christopher Tolkien has distanced himself from the movies.

[FerniesApple]

You could be right, but from all the interviews I have seen with Martin I havent got the impression of any underlying niggles or regret. But then he seems like an easy going guy and the show has proved an amazing hit so he must be quite pleased its a high quality product. I know there are concerns he writes slowly but I doubt the showrunners will do a dramatic plot change without prior consultation, after all if they get him really riled he may just refuse to write more books.

I wish they could stop him Killing off my favorite characters tho I am hoping The mountain is still alive, that Arya road trip was something else.

[Kuruharan]

Originally Posted by FerniesApple

I know there are concerns he writes slowly but I doubt the showrunners will do a dramatic plot change without prior consultation,

They have already done that a few times, in at least one case Martin said the change they made was explicitly against his advice.

after all if they get him really riled he may just refuse to write more books.

Financially speaking, he would be the only one who would lose if he did that.

Martin has already given Benioff and Weiss the outcome of the story and the outline of how the story will get there. In some respects the two of them don't really need Martin anymore.

I wish they could stop him Killing off my favorite characters

But that is allegedly why everyone loves his stories.

[FerniesApple]

oh didnt know they had gone against his advice sometimes. maybe it was a cinematic thing done for flow, technical reasons, made sense onscreen?, they seem to make good choices, and sometimes the dialogue seems straight from the page. But then I am not a book-first fan, when it comes to GOT I prefer the tv show, I find the books hard going and I gave up after the second one.