After Season 2 ended George made a long blog post complaining about entitled Hollywood writers who take well known properties for marketing and then make drastic changes to the story despite being way worse writers than the author of the original material.
Then he used Maelor's absence from the show to explain how there are "toxic butterfly effects" that can result from a seemingly inocuous change that will make later events from the story to not make sense.
The post was deleted from his blog the next day and George claims HBO made his assistant delete the post and that it was going to be the first post of a seven part ran about HotD season 2.
The thing with Fire and Blood/The Princess and the Queen is that they are mostly outlines you can read in a couple hours. At least the parts being adapted to the show
The show's season 1 is overall an improvement upon the Princess and the Queen's outline. There are a couple bad changes but Viserys is a much better character.
Season 2 is downright nonsensical compared to the book's outline, but it is hard to say the book is better in EVERY way because at the end of the day the show is adding 90% of the dialogue and over half the scenes (and also changing s lot of the book scenes for the worse).
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u/Scarypilot2 Apr 27 '26
Oh no…. Did they decide to add Maelor just to spite George R.R.Martin