Breaking News: George R.R. Martin Finally Breaks His Silence About House of the Dragon Season 2!

B & C yes better in books, but the technical issues of shooting make sense. Young actors and not wanting bunch of cgi, etc.

Idgaf about this george, just finish the fkn books

He doesn’t say “for the nonce” he says “for the novice”

I think it’s nice for the “gardener” George to see the wonderful blossoms that his story rooted 😊

I think GRRM's 'issue' with Maelor being missing is this-now we know that it was Jaehaera that was killed for sure and NOT Jaehaerys. THIS show is brilliant!

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What did he mean by nonce?? 😂😂

TT, How do you know the dog was sad, maybe the dog was looking up saying "Yeah, you had that coming for kicking me" lol

Anyway, good analysis as always 👌

Maelor lives his life knowing that her mother choose him to die…

I gave up on S2 after E1, Blood & Cheese was just flat.

Wonder how he will feel if NETTLES isn’t included?!?! 🥵

Alicent not with Cole, and Helaena in Alicent's room with the children—this is how the scene from the book was expected to unfold. The buildup was there, but the heartbreak of Helaena and its impact on her, as portrayed in the book, was missed in the episode and the following one. No, I didn't want to see a child decapitated; hearing it was enough. Helaena having to choose one of her sons, with all of them awake and present in the moment, was also missing, as well as Maelor. This would have given the impact we were expecting after the ending of Season 1. As an audience, we loved how they did the episode, but as a reader of the book, I thought it was going to be more heartwrenching as it was to read.

Correct me if i'm wrong but isn't the source material a story told by like a few people? And every one is telling the same story but slightly different? So if i understand it correctly no one knows what actually happened so if the writers give it their own go .. whats the big deal?

At least it ain't Acolyte. THIS i would watch if it wasn't GoT or I wasn't an ASoIaF🤓😎✌🏼

No one cares about blood and cheese...they just fillers to the drama...nothing more.

lmao "breaking news"

You can definitely tell that GRRM is a lot more pleased with the direction HOTD takes vs GOT.

The acting is excellent 💯

It's hard to imagine Aegon is the elder brother to Aemond given the size of the actor playing Aemond. In the books it is said Aemond is half the size of Aegon, but he seemed to inherit Viserys' height I suppose. My favorite Targaryen is definitely Daemon who I didn't like in the beginning but now I really love his character development. This Dance of the Dragon is such a tragedy 😢 for all the Targaryen kinfolk and their dragons.

Excluding Maelor from the show spares us from seeing his fucked up death on screen.

Blood kicked the dog not Cheese .. I would think Cheese would have taken issue with the dog kicking but he is a bit cowardly so maybe not . Top notch acting from the dog though .

100% agree with everything George said, good and bad.

The issue with Maelor missing is Maelor’s death is ultimately what brings her down.

Reading the video title...
"Breaking News: George R.R. Martin Finally "
yes yes yes yes
".... breaks his silence about house of the dragon season 2"
oh. :(

I've got to agree, Rhys Ifans has given an absolutely gripping and august performance as Otto Hightower. And the scene with Otto and Aegon is just phenomenal.

"For the nonce" ... George, you really need to look up the meaning of the word "nonce" 😬

its a different meaning.

making Helaena choose between the heir and the younger brother, then disregarding her choice (which traumatizes her even more, in the book she can't even be in the same room with Maelor anymore) is a way different thing than having her choose between the twins, a boy and a girl. And she actually chooses the boy to die when they would've maybe fallen for a switch. It connects back to one of the main themes of the series. Rhaenyra is the rightful heir, as decided by Viserys, but "andal tradition" dictates male primogeniture. One generation back, Rheanys' claim was overlooked in the same way…

In the end, Monarchy is just a bad form of government, since it's always a coin toss. Maybe you get a good king, maybe you get a bloodthirsty, mad or lustful egomaniac. Sometimes the king is way past his prime, sometimes it's a literal toddler. And looking back at 300 years of Targaryen rule… some of them, great. Most however…

Anyone that calls Darcy 'they 'is a moron ...

I prefer the show's version of Blood & Cheese to the book's. In the book, it's a more graphic and horrifying experience with Cheese pulling one of the cruelest acts in the entire story. But what's really the point of all that trauma? Does Cheese have something against the royals? And even if he does... what's the payoff? Doesn't seem like much happens for him in the aftermath except a ambiguous fate. Obviously when it comes to the gore, the show had its hands tied and I think what we got was probably the best choice for live action. But the other changes are really interesting. Instead of asking Halena which son she wants alive, an unnecessary question in the moment that seems to exist only for shock value, they ask which of the identical siblings is the boy, a necessary question that happens to lead into a much more interesting scenario, albeit a less traumatic one. The exchange that follows in the episode is one of the most poignant moments of character development in the series so far. It makes sense that Blood would doubt her words immediately, but the fact that she "spoke true," AND that Cheese, of all people, is maybe the first person to really connect with Halena enough to have that kind of insight into her, is incredibly heartbreaking. Yeah, the more traumatic version is also heartbreaking, but the writers of these shows are known for their character work and this change to the book material shows that they know where, when, and how to flex that muscle.

Who cares, finish the books!

i’m sorry, the dog that was kicked by cheese, was actually his?

GOT > House of 🐉

Less interviews, more writting G! 13 years man, c'm8n!

Is maelor just fully cut from the show? I don’t understand why they would do that? It changes a major dynamic, namely making Aemond the legitimate heir after Jaeherys’ death, when it the book Maelor is the new heir.

Love the model of Drogon in the background of GRRM. I was hoping this was an announcement of another kind , what wirh the "breaking news".😅

Not even gonna watch your video, just stepped in to say he needs to STFU and finish his books. It’s been more than a decade since the last one

This mf is NEVER finishing the books. Its so disappointed man. One thing I am truly scared of is dying before I can see my favorite series end.

GRRM please stop whining, blogging, interviewing and traveling. Even if you identify the layout of remaining key themes and hire a ghost writer, wrap it up--your book that is.

Yeah, I have to admit Aegon and Otto's scene was spectacular. Otto was especially great in it

The scene in the books was more messed up. Bc blood n cheese were more sadistic. They traumatised Maelor but just saying a single phrase, and that laments the future relationship he will have with Haelena. Here it seems Maelor doesn't exist.

Maelor being absent sets the assumption that Aemond might not be entirely loyal to the green's cause and is out to get the throne for himself.

I kinda like the change since Aemond became the direct counterpart of Daemon in the other side of the conflict. Both second sons, both stronger than their King/Queen, vying for the throne themselves.

The thing i don't like is their keeping Damon in that nut castle to long,there's no great violence and nudity, plus it's only 1 story so far. Game of thrones had many stories once the kids grew up.

Emma D’Arcy is a woman. Not a plural. SHE is a woman.

I don’t like it as much as game of thrones

Is it just me or does other people think that when he said, “What I call the butterfly effect.” Like he came up with that term, that’s been around forever and a crappy movie with the same name? I love George, I’m just sayin😊

I'm still trying to figure out how they did the dog kick scene as it look so authentic.

That dog still haunts me! I know it’s just a show but now I know my next dog will be a a ratty looking rescue!🥹

Maelor had no big role in the story anyway, he died as a small kid on his way to the old town escaping King's Landing, literally whatever...

This can’t be what he thought he saw