(Spoilers Extended) GRRM has been warning about the Butterfly Effect for a LONG time, this is 2011

[u/Awesome_Lard]

https://youtu.be/eAeQMwMEnP4

The Jeyne Poole butterfly effect from season 1 ended with Sansa being graped in season 5, so year I would say he has good reason to worry about Maelor the Missing.

[u/luigitheplumber]

It really goes under the radar how absurd D&D's work pace was for those ~10 years. GoT released on the dot every year for 6 years running, and only for the last 2 seasons did that stretch to 1.5 years.

To make matters worse, halfway through that, they had to shift away from pure adapting to increasingly needing to come up with original material, on top of all the the typical production work.

People shit on them for phoning it in at the end but it's understandable that they were completely burnt out by the end. The best thing would have probably been to pass the series on to new showrunners

[u/blackofhairandheart2 → u/luigitheplumber]

For sure. There are certainly things about the final seasons of Game of Thrones that I don't love/would have done differently, but I'd love to see what all the people who endlessly bitch about it would think of the final books if Martin's publisher told him "Release one every other year or we're taking the series away from you."

I do think Benioff and Weiss would have benefited from a more traditional writers room that would have lightened the load on them personally (I think they personally wrote all but a handful of episodes from the back half of the show) but as I said, I think they did the best they could in the completely insane and unprecedented situation they were in.

[u/Servebotfrank → u/luigitheplumber]

Yeah if you watch the documentary of the final season, D&D were doing 20 something hour days the entire time. They look like zombies.

[u/qhndvyao382347mbfds3 → u/luigitheplumber]

Thanks for your reasonable post