the thing is i actually donât enjoy or care about fire & blood. i donât. itâs the most boring book grrm has ever written, iâve read it twice, physically and audio, and itâs put me to sleep both times. the dance of the dragons is borderline unreadable because thereâs twenty versions of the same event being told nearly 200 years later. the entire book is unreliable narration and raging misogyny. it is not a good book and i simply donât understand the rages people fly into over the show not being a 1:1 adaptation.
i genuinely donât think book purists understand the decisions that had to be made to make the show adaptable that have in fact elevated it beyond what is, once again, an entirely unreliable narrative. eg: âbook alicent would neverâ book alicent is an entirely one dimensional evil stepmother caricature. her actual relationship with her individual children isnât even mentioned nor how she may have treated them. there is 0 evidence in the book of what she actually wants that hasnât been twisted and retold incorrectly a thousand times.
not watching the show is an option! go read the most boring book in existence instead!
