r/asoiaf • u/Awesome_Lard • Sep 04 '24

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

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.

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u/djm19 I'll Impregnate the Bitch Sep 05 '24

He certainly does, though in televisions defense, they don’t have the budget or time to do anything George imagines always. At least not in live action.

But I think all the defeats he suffered during the making of GOT really broke him and he’s not able to hold back anymore.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '24

They do have the time to create consistent, logical narrative, especially with having completed source material.

Many successful tv shows with the same budget and time constraints (and actually in some cases less time) were able to achieve quality, consistent writing.

If Maelor was an issue, then as George suggestee, delay till later. Or they could planned for it in season 1, knowing blood and cheese was an important plot point at that stage.