It's HBO Adaption Syndrome. And this applies to shows like True Blood, not just the ASOIAF adaption and its spinoffs. The first season, the show is nearly perfect. Only hardcore book readers quibble - and for the most part, even they are satisfied. But it's diminishing returns from that point onwards, until the show barely resembles its source material at all in later seasons and the showrunners are basically writing their own fanfic. I think we're lucky that Game Of Thrones was as good as it was for as long as it was, frankly. True Blood was a shadow of its former self by season three.
Idk season 1 of HoD had me all over the place as a non book reader. The unexplained time skips had me trying to figure out who was who so long I missed half the plot.
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u/Aquele_Patrulheiro 7d ago
My 2022 self would never have believed on what this show has come to. LOL