Yes. I agree......
GoT for TV has very little to do with the original books and the further into the TV series the narrative has gone the more the story has diverged from the original.
Seeing the book releases are now lagging behind the narrative in the TV show I think Martin has totally lost control of his own narrative.
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That's the thing for me, the initial few series of GoT are REALLY good and handle the books well with only a few minor omissions and you can tell Martin's got his hand well and truly involved in them.
Slowly though, you see his withdrawl from the project with the that was their handling of the Dorne plotlines;
Followed shortly by the sudden complete character change of Stannis 'the Mannis' Baratheon:
The final nail in the coffin for me was how much they completely ignored the Greyjoy plot lines. Seriously, how do you make Cthulu worshiping Vikings uninteresting?
They're not great storywriters, which is what they've been signed onto this project for. Benioff, in terms of writing gave us the travesty that was
X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and Weiss has written nothing apart from Thrones and one episode of
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia which he co-wrote with Benioff, and was a pretty weak episode. Oh and of course, their upcoming Man in the High Castle clone,
Confederate.
I have no idea why the mainstream is getting so hyped about this. I mean, it was bad enough they agreed to let Rian Johnson direct Last Jedi. Seriously, for me, as enjoyable as a standalone film it was for the target market, he came close to killing the franchise due to being allowed to disregard/mess with all the new stuff and mysteries JJ Abrams, for all the issues he brought, was at least trying to seed into the new trilogy. But letting him direct a whole trilogy as well?
