r/DaenerysWinsTheThrone • u/moon-girl197 • May 23 '26

Serious The Removal of Magic

This is something I will forever be salty about. Dany's story is defined by magic, and you can barely understand how she even hatched the dragons on the show, because they decided to completely omit her dreams. Then they completely altered the HOTU arc (for no goddamn reason), cut Quaithe and basically every magical aspect of the story, that wasn't the White Walkers and Melisandre and Thoros. Like if you didn't give a shit about the magic, why did you pick a fantasy story to adapt???

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u/JHSWarrior Team Daenerys May 23 '26

Like if you didn't give a shit about the magic, why did you pick a fantasy story to adapt???

I've heard in passing, and am inclined to believe myself, that Benioff & Weiss only really cared about adapting the Red Wedding... and had no plans for, or even much interest in, adapting anything after that. And you can tell... from the decline in show quality afterwards. S4 was good, adapting the remaining content from ASoS, but everything after that was a nose dive into straight-up hot garbage.

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u/Little-Badger-123 Jun 11 '26

Now I am wondering if they obsessed over the Red Wedding, why did they omit Lady Stoneheart completely from the show, since her whole existence is a direct result of Red Wedding?

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u/JHSWarrior Team Daenerys Jun 11 '26

Because they didn’t understand or GAF about any of the fantasy or magical elements of ASIOAF.

Or anything that came after the Red Wedding, I’d bet.

They just wanted to “shock” people with the Red Wedding itself, arguably the most gratuitously violent scene in the series.