[mingus88]

The quality of Game of Thrones directly maps to how much source material they had to adapt.

The show runners have taken all the heat, but the fact is GRRM knew he needed to wrap up the novels before the show caught up. He wrote many blog posts about it. Unfortunately, it’s clear now that he never will.

Expecting the show runners to finish a series that even the original author can’t is just unreasonable. To that point they had writing credits on The Wolverine and a couple other shows.

But according to popular internet sentiment, Benoif and Weiss are to blame, not HBO or GRRM for leaving them high and dry…

[thinkingemote]

It highlights what a good screenwriter Martin is. He writes for the screen in his novels (and this is good) so much so that it doesn't engage with my imagination at all which is actually what you need for television!

Obviously he has a good imagination and it's this that the other writers couldn't replicate. Maybe the imaginary is harder to capture in a screenplay compared to literature. Fascinating topic.