![]() ![]() ![]() The world of Westeros proved impossible to tame, both for Martin and the showrunners, who have rushed to wrap up their sprawling story in two final, shortened seasons. All of the suspense for, none of the uncertainty for us.”īut since A Dance with Dragons, released the same year as Season 1 of Game of Thrones, Martin has yet to publish another book. “George has thought this story through with a focus and consistency of vision that is simply impossible in a normal television context. “This story is unmarked by the unavoidable compromises that come with writing against a ticking production clock,” they promised in 2006. Martin’s published books with more to follow. Their advantage over every other show, they argued, was that they had at least four seasons of show laid out in George R.R. Weiss and Benioff pitched themselves to HBO as adaptors, not creators. Who knew reading five fantasy novels and being able to explain them would ever be so valuable? But it is safe to say that many opportunities-writing magazine cover stories, attending fan conventions, and co-hosting three separate and successful podcasts about one TV series-wouldn’t have happened without it. After writing part time online for four years, including covering Thrones in its more modestly received first seasons, I was hired at Vanity Fair in the thick of my coverage of the end of another cultural phenomenon show: Breaking Bad. I don’t exactly owe my entire career to Game of Thrones. Like Daenerys’s baby dragons, Thrones grew into something too big, too powerful, and, for many of us, too hot to handle. But as the divisive final episodes threaten the legacy of one of the biggest stories in the world, it’s worth remembering that, originally, the ambitions for everyone involved were much smaller. In the meantime, it has irrevocably changed countless lives, including mine. Over a decade later, Game of Thrones has broken Emmy records, ratings records and, in its final days, engulfed the internet in scorching takes about the show’s last six episodes. But none of us, not even Martin himself, knew where all of this would lead. Martin had written a series of doorstopper novels that were popular, dense, and, according to anyone who knew anything about it, completely unfilmable. But as a bookseller in an independent shop in Northern California I knew the same thing they did: George R.R. Weiss had never written a single second of TV and I had never written a single word professionally. When they first pitched HBO on the concept of Game of Thrones in 2006, David Benioff and D.B. ![]()
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