Yeah the books are actually pretty good. I saw a post recently that compared Tormund in the show to Tormund in the books. In the show he's just like "where's the tall woman?!" and just doing this bit the whole time because he tested well with audiences and they were afraid to turn any dials that might make him appear complex. While in the books he does shit like confide in Jon about how sad he is that both of his sons have died tragically recently. I think the show was decent for a while too, but the showrunners couldn't see past the hype after a while and just wanted to please fans, then they had to rush an ending without the benefit of a much better writer's detailed books to go off.
it literally was the problem that happens with manga that people start adding stuff for character to do following popularity polls and they should have given it to another person because they knew it was going to be shit like to the point that hbo wanted to give them more episodes and they decided to make it a shorter season
The fact that it was originally supposed to be a trilogy turned 5-part and now seven part series for the show adaptation to also stretch to another season is the only on brand thing the show did past season 4.
Also book 4 sucked shit to read, 3/10 and Winds of Winter's ending is appalling to say the least. Just terrible two books.
Yeah the books are actually pretty good. I saw a post recently that compared Tormund in the show to Tormund in the books. In the show he's just like "where's the tall woman?!" and just doing this bit the whole time because he tested well with audiences and they were afraid to turn any dials that might make him appear complex. While in the books he does shit like confide in Jon about how sad he is that both of his sons have died tragically recently. I think the show was decent for a while too, but the showrunners couldn't see past the hype after a while and just wanted to please fans, then they had to rush an ending without the benefit of a much better writer's detailed books to go off.
it literally was the problem that happens with manga that people start adding stuff for character to do following popularity polls and they should have given it to another person because they knew it was going to be shit like to the point that hbo wanted to give them more episodes and they decided to make it a shorter season
The fact that it was originally supposed to be a trilogy turned 5-part and now seven part series for the show adaptation to also stretch to another season is the only on brand thing the show did past season 4.
Also book 4 sucked shit to read, 3/10 and Winds of Winter's ending is appalling to say the least. Just terrible two books.