D&D and George said that main characters will have the same stories in the books, but not the secondary characters. Sansa and Jeyne fusion is one thing (Jeyne is a secondary non-pov character, so that’s not a big deal that Sansa’s story absorbed hers), but changing plotlines for THREE main characters and to completely omiss a whole love story between two MAIN characters? How is that possible? And I’ve seen 3BP, they changed the stories to make them more digestible, but main characters still stand almost the same (some fusion happened here too) and the romantic storylines are between the characters that they are supposed to be, so it’s not like they like doing something like that.

Hi Nonny,

Thanks for the ask!

I disagree with your interpretation.

You are describing something that writers do all the time in adaptations. Look how many writers came to George and wanted to eliminate half of the story because they thought the canvas was too big and so they wanted to simplify things. That’s what D&D ended up doing at the end.

But what was bad about D&D, and in a way was insulting to the audience is that they hinted at the real stories in the background. They didn’t totally eliminate the Jon and Sansa relationship. Just look at how they wrote and framed them in a romantic manner in a way they never did Jon and Dany.

Other important changes they made that included main characters include leaving out the entire Lady Stoneheart arc. Do you think that Catelyn wasn’t a main character or that the Lady Stoneheart arc won’t be important? They left out Faegon. He is not a main character but his arc plays a very important role in Dany’s story and will take up a big chunk of her TWOW and ADOS story. Faegon/Dany isn’t even the final Dance with Dragons. That will be Jon and Dany, but it’s a main preview, and George has been foreshadowing it for hundreds of years in story time. And yet D&D cut it. Do you think that’s not a major change or isn’t important?

They completely eliminated Sansa Vale arc, and the events of the Tourney of the Winged Knights. Do you think that George has been setting that up since the first book and heavily foreshadowing it in the Hands Tourney and Oberyn and the Mountain’s fight because it won’t be important to the storyline? Sansa’s vale arc will be extremely important to final events. Aspects of it are literally part of prophecy. Sansa has been mentioned in three possibly 4 prophecies/visions and people still think that she’s not important.

I stand by my theory that Jon and Dany are a show only thing and that the books foreshadows them being in opposition to each other and not being in a romantic relationship.

controversial thought but is there doubt that george would want to rewrite things that he originally planned on since the books have gone mainstream? j0nsa as a plot point in the books might split the fans even harder or cause a meltdown in fans, he might've seen the reaction to the ending and choose to rewrite a lot of things to appease fans?

i don’t know man, i don’t think he cares as much about what the fans think. he’s called tumblr a “cesspool” long before and i doubt he’s the kind of person who stays awake at night worrying about whether fans would like his content or not.

he’s straight up called out ryan condol in his blogspot, the consequences of which (whether the show gets cancelled or HBO pulls his royalties or whatever) I’m sure would put a dent in his income. and yet, he did. because he had to because of how much he loves his art. which is also the reason why he keeps on writing & then rewriting twow - he’s not worried about fan reactions, he just wants it to be well done because that’s his art.

so umm no, i don’t think grrm will change the ending to appease the fans. if he does change the ending (to any degree, and is a whole other topic because i DOUBT he’ll drastically change it) then it’ll be because it aligns better with the story he’s trying to tell.