George R.R. Martin Wants to Talk About ‘Everything That’s Gone Wrong With House of the Dragon‘

House of the Dragon is gearing up for its 3rd season, and Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin has yet updated his Not a Blog astir what helium plans to constitute next. No, it’s not a tangible update connected the Winds of Winter; it’s a dissertation of sorts connected everything that went wrong with the HBO show.

In Martin’s brief blog update, the writer regaled his fans astir his much-needed vacation, which he’d conscionable returned from, and his bout with covid. Martin besides handily acknowledged that his clip distant meant helium had a batch of catching up to with his writing. More specifically, helium expressed his thoughts on  House of the Dragon season two, which wrapped up successful August.

“I bash not look guardant to different posts I request to write, astir everything that’s gone incorrect with House of the Dragon… but I request to bash that too, and I will,” Martin wrote. “Not today, though.”

While Martin hasn’t been shy astir vocalizing assorted critiques of HBO’s handling of Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon—most precocious regarding visual inaccuracies of the Targaryen flag—it’s uncommon for him to accidental determination was thing incorrect with the amusement explicitly. When Game of Thrones‘ contentious bid finale rolled around, Martin alluded to the showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff going down a antithetic way than helium would person liked.

Although Martin doesn’t disclose what his upcoming critiques volition absorption on, astir antagonistic instrumentality reactions to House of the Dragon play 2 person taken contented with the show’s pacing, specifically however the bid plans connected stretching retired an admittedly escaped conception of Martin’s Targaryen past Fire & Blood into 4 seasons. This, successful turn, has led galore viewers to consciousness similar the 2nd play dragged successful places with filler contented to abstraction retired the gaps betwixt the root material’s large communicative beats. Seeing arsenic however Martin initially wanted Game of Thrones to extremity successful a movie trilogy to circumvent its pacing issues, there’s a non-zero percent accidental his forthcoming professional whitethorn instrumentality umbrage with House of the Dragon‘s pacing issues.

As with astir things with Martin, we won’t cognize precisely what he’s cooking successful a critique of House of Dragon until helium puts the proverbial pen to paper. Let’s anticipation immoderate helium writes lights a occurrence nether his ass to get backmost to finishing the precise long-awaited Winds of Winter.

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