Board Thread:TV Show Discussion/@comment-5014364-20150731235713/@comment-5014364-20150801201957

Blinding Arya did happen in the novels and in her case that made sense as a climax they built to across the season/book.

But the other stuff, yeah: pulling Stannis-Shireen material from the next novel ahead into Season 5, just to reach a "major climax?" Same with Myrcella's poisoning - she doesn't get poisoned as of the most recent novel (and even if she dies in the next book...doing it on the ship they're leaving on like that makes no sense...)

Daenerys does disappear and Jon does get stabbed....though I think they rewrote "Hardhome" at the last minute to the point that there's no logical setup (they leave Hardhome by ship, and thus could sail south of the Wall...yet next episode we see them approach the Wall *by land*? Just to have a confrontation/staredown with Thorne before letting them through?  Then, in the very next episode Thorne stabs Jon?  Why would he do that NOW?  Instead of just refusing to let him back through the Wall?  Or letting thousands of wildlings through the Wall? -- they might be able to fix that if they say that news of the Boltons' victory over Stannis brought by Melisandre spurred them -- but that's the big question to the scriptwriters - you settled on "shock" for Jon's death so much that you avoided the major setup it got in the novels (much moreso than "we're annoyed about the wildlings).

There can't be "filler" in three seasons, the problem was that they were cutting out so much stuff it seemed nonsensical.

Pacing is like a joke: there's "setup" then a "punchline". If you have limited time, you don't cut out all the setup and present pure punchline...punchlines out of context make no sense. Instead, you tell fewer jokes overall.

Actually prequel projects I want to see are:


 * A one-season prequel about Robert's Rebellion
 * A multi-year Tales of Dunk and Egg.
 * A multi-year Dance of the Dragons adaptation (based on the other prequel novellas that just came out)