George R.R. Martin Pulls Blog Post Slamming ‘Toxic’ House of the Dragon Changes

Last week, Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin posted connected his blog teasing a aboriginal introduction successful which helium would knock everything incorrect with HBO’s 2nd play of House of the Dragon. Today, successful what tin lone beryllium described arsenic post-blog clarity, Martin uploaded the promised post—only to swiftly instrumentality it down from his site.

According to IGN, Martin’s now-deleted blog station (read it successful archived signifier here) slammed the amusement for a peculiar deviation from its root material, and warned fans of much “toxic” changes to travel successful House of the Dragon play three. As IGN notes, the main crux of Martin’s complaints comes with the show’s depiction of “Blood and Cheese,” an infamous infinitesimal successful Targaryen lore successful which King Aegon II’s young heir meets his grisly end.

In the show’s mentation of events, Queen Heleana and her twins Jaehaerys and Jaehaera are menaced by murderous intruders. She’s forced to place which of the toddlers is simply a lad and she offers up a necklace successful an effort to bribe Blood and Cheese into showing mercy. In Martin’s Fire & Blood, Heleana has 3 children, with a 2nd lad named Maelor successful the mix, and she’s forced to take which kid volition beryllium sacrificed. After offering her ain beingness instead, and being told that’s not an option, she picks Maelor—but they extremity up sidesplitting Jaehaerys anyway. Although Martin recovered the occurrence “bloody and brutal,” helium holds accelerated to his publication handling it better.

“I thought the actors who played the killers connected the amusement were excellent… but the characters are crueler, harder, and much frightening successful Fire & Blood,” Martin wrote. “I would besides suggest that Helaena shows much courage, much spot successful the book, by offering her ain own beingness to prevention her son. Offering a portion of jewelry is conscionable not the same.”

“As I saw it, the Sophie’s Choice aspect was the strongest portion of the sequence, the darkest, the astir visceral,” Martin continued. “I hated to suffer that. And judging from the comments connected line, astir of the fans seemed to agree.”

Martin besides revealed that helium argued with showrunner Ryan Condal astir the change, but relented aft getting Condal’s assurance that it would inactive beryllium an impactful scene.

Martin besides voiced his interest with Maelor not being successful the show. According to the author, Maelor hasn’t been removed from the amusement wholly but postponed until play 3 of House of the Dragon. (Another kid for Aegon and Heleana seems unlikely, fixed the logistical concern and carnal information the king was successful astatine the extremity of play two, but alien things person happened successful Westeros.) However, Martin thinks the prince mightiness arsenic good beryllium dropped from the show, fixed the character’s value successful Fire and Blood.

“Will immoderate of that look connected the show? Maybe… but I don’t spot how,” Martin wrote. “I person nary thought what Ryan has planned—if so helium has planned anything—but fixed Maelor’s lack from [season] two, the simplest mode to proceed would beryllium conscionable to driblet him entirely.” While voicing his concerns implicit the commencement of Maelor being pushed to play three, Martin besides spoiled the decease of a large subordinate successful the upcoming play and warned fans of much “toxic” changes inactive to travel successful the House of the Dragon.

“In Ryan’s outline for play three, Helaena inactive kills herself… for nary peculiar reason. There is nary caller horror, nary triggering lawsuit to overwhelm the fragile young queen,” Martin wrote; successful Fire & Blood, she takes her ain beingness aft Maelor meets a unspeakable end. Using the conception of the “Butterfly Effect” to explicate however the changes successful play 2 could impact the remainder of the show, Martin continued. “And determination are larger and much toxic butterflies to come, if House of the Dragon goes up with immoderate of the changes being contemplated for seasons 3 and four…”

Seeing as Martin’s dissertation on House of the Dragon nary longer exists connected his blog, 1 mightiness presume the writer either thought amended of posting his heated absorption to the HBO show’s 2nd play oregon that representatives of the amusement pulled retired a comically ample cane to yank him distant from his computer.

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