I know we’ve had at least three posts on this topic so far. I can see from the comments that a lot of people were not or are not aware of this relationship.
I think this is important because it points to something that runs contrary to Ed Sheeran’s public statement, where he excused his dismissal of a musician speaking up for Palestine.
I stopped caring about the show after season 5 so except for the ending and some select scenes it’s all I’ve really seen.
You’d have to have read the books to notice the shift in writing quality. What made AOIAF books unique was how GRRM build the world through the eyes/perspectives of characters. Season 1 especially, every scene had this invisible layer that you could only see if you’d read the chapter and heard the thoughts of the person whose perspective it was told from.
Season 4 onward diverted heavily from this as they introduced more and more non-canon material.
As someone who pre-ordered his hardcovers as they came out… I’m very spiteful towards GRRM for not finishing the books and think Game of Ed Sheeran is the legacy he deserves after selling out so blatantly.
Funny. I was just thinking about all this not five minutes before.
Same here. I’m dirty with Martin that he won’t finish the books, and he won’t. As opposed to Robert Jordan who not only worked his arse off to get out what he could before he died, he tried his best to get the right person to finish WoT and we got a completed story, even if it may not have been what Jordan would have given us.
I feel somewhat, that GoT (which we know as ASoIaF) stole some limelight that perhaps should have gone to Jordan’s story, which Amazon and the dat’sang Rafe Judkins completely fucked.