Board Thread:TV Show Discussion/@comment-5014364-20150620174256/@comment-15030876-20150620180846

Draevan13 wrote: ArticXiongmao wrote:

I think your suggested 2 season AFFC/ADWD would've been shit and the beginning of the end for the show. A meandering season five with NO climaxes for most characters, in particular. I still don't see how you come to this conclusion... neither Feast for Crows nor Dance with Dragons were so devoid of interesting content that to make each its own season would've doomed the show.

If they'd have made season 5 ONLY with AFFC, omitting all the ADWD stuff... okay, that I could see how it'd be slow, and having a season with no Tyrion or Daenerys would be a bad move. But by using the material from both books (easily done, since they both occur at the same time), it'd be no slower or duller than the other seasons. That's the problem. You see the content in those books as "material." Things that happen. Plot. That's not what D&D are doing in their adaptation and thank God for that. They are professional writers who understand stories —They understand that each of those two books told a complete story arc for each character. They HAD to do it in a season, because they had to tell each complete story arc within a season. Cutting the story arcs that GRRM told in AFFC and ADWD of LITERALLY every character in HALF would be a disaster both financially and artistically. It's not about impressive climaxes, it's not about "things happening"; it's about STORY ARCS. Some of you around here seem to care about the kind of plot and details most people don't give a damn about. D&D care about story and characters, and rightly so.