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@richpuchalsky @tiotasram @mayintoronto @anolandria
RoninRiot take ⚔️
The show didn’t completely change that—early GOT was still brutal, political, and morally gray.
But the books went even deeper into the ugliness of power, war, marriage, and nobility.
That’s the debate: Books or TV—who understood Westeros better? 👀
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Won't lie.
2026 was a real important year for TV/ASOIAF and with two episodes of #HouseOfTheDragonHBO to go, I think we're going out in a significantly better spot than we entered the year.
#AKnightOfTheSevenKingdoms was an immediate and absolute success. It is beloved by general audiences and book nerds. And that was far from a guarentee when the show was greenlit.
House of the Dragon season 3 has managed to write the ship after a really poorly received ending to season 2. It's not perfect, and it' still struggles from the weight of it's own poor story-telling and HBO's meddling, but for the most part it's doing a great job of keeping audiences invested; even if I think they've made some bat-shit creative decisions.
All in all, I think we've got to be very happy with the year as we've got it. Another poor season of HOTD would have basically ended any hope of a satisfying conclusion to that story, and a poorly received AKOTSK would have been death to any notion of a second season; and potentially general audience interest in the world of Ice and Fire on TV.
In summery: We are so back.
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For every Blackwater and Hardholm we had four or five dialogue heavy plot driven episodes. Without those 'slow' episodes the episodes like BotB don't mean as much.
You fell in love with early #GameOfThrones not because of the one episode a season of pure spectacle, but because of the 8 episodes of delicately written, impressively filmed and beautifully acted drama that leads up to it.
The spectacle is great, don't get me wrong, but the bread and butter of George's world, of #ASOIAF and of the HBO GoT Universe itself will always be characters, dialogue and plot.
So whenever I see we've a slower paced episode of #GoT, #AKnightOfTheSevenKingdoms or even #HouseOfTheDragonHBO I settle in for a solid 50 minutes of what made me fall in love with this world in the first place.
I can't understand people who moan about the plot building episodes. Did you completely miss what makes these shows tick?
And yes, I am aware of how many # I've used in this post. Ma bad.
