I love the books, and wondered whether anyone was watching the HBO series.
The spoiler he posted I am sure is safe to readI didn't read the spoiler. But if it was about S8 I doubt it is correct or sure thing. They didn't ever write the S8 scripts yet.
And if something real about S8 really leaked, I would really be pissed.
This season has been ruined by spoilers and leaks (script leaks more than episode leaks).
I wrote the same thing on TF.The fairy tale/mythology is taking over the politics and the actual meat of the books, its study of Human condition - and I couldn't care less about the former. Its purpose was to highlight the latter, not the other way around (and it fails to do so too).
So yes, the two of them are the Ice and Fire and the books and the TV series are basically about them.Speaking with Deadline, he said how Martin basically teased that Jon and Daenerys will end up together – at least in the books.
Taylor harkened back to filming the first season of Game of Thrones when Martin was quite open about his narrative’s future.
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The director said: “He alluded to the fact that Jon and Dany were the point, kind of. That, at the time, there was a huge, vast array of characters, and Jon was a lowly, you know, bastard son.
“So it wasn't clear to us at the time, but he did sort of say things that made it clear that the meeting and the convergence of Jon and Dany were sort of the point of the series.”
They also could've brought their own ravens. Gendry who had never been north of the wall being able to navigate his way back to the castle after presumably hours of walking is ludicrous. In terrain like that it is far easier to get lost then go the correct way. Plus running a long distance in freezing weather is not a walk in the park.Finally, the light-speed ravens and dragons really annoyed me this time around, since it was obvious that very little time had passed as they stood on the rock at the lake. Other "fast" travel can be easily discarded by assuming that a couple of days went by between the scenes, but this is hard to explain. And it's sloppy writing: they could have simply had Dany leave for the wall out of concern for Jon, meet Gendry there and then continue northwards to save the guys.