SPOILER ALERT: If you are a reader, don't you dare watch the sixth season. The latest revelation highlights a fatal flaw for the popular television series.
The Game of Thrones' season finale just revealed massive changes and plot twists that took over sixteen years in the making.
The biggest shocker is the revelation of Jon Snow's mother. But the man who conceived the plot wasn't even the one to communicate this critical revelation.
Almost exactly five years ago, the most recent installment of George R.R. Martin's fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice And Fire' was released. The same year, HBO began to air David Benioff and D.B. Weiss' Game of Thrones, the television adaptation of Martin's novels.
By that time, 'A Song of Ice and Fire' wasn't finished yet. There were still two more books prescribed for publication.
With the confidence that Martin would finish his story before the series converged with it, Benioff and Weiss decided to proceed with their television adaptation despite having an incomplete narrative.
After five years, the Game of Thrones TV series has surpassed Martin's chronicle and those two final books, 'The Winds of Winter' and 'A Dream of Spring' still remain unpublished.
The 67-year-old author admitted to missing an end-of-year submission deadline in 2015. This was posted in a blog last January.
Bantam Books, Martin's publisher, gave him two extra months but he missed those deadlines as well.
The sixth season of Benioff and Weiss' series came too close to the point where the story hasn't even made it to the books yet. It clearly shows that the series might outpace the novel soon.
Jon Snow rising from the dead and his sudden revelation of lineage are just a few yet major parts of those that haven't written in the books yet. For all the book readers know, he's still dead.
When The Winds of Winter is finally released, readers won't be surprised to see Jon Snow being brought back from the dead, or that the fact that he is the son of Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryen, or that Hodor meets his death in an act of self-sacrifice, that The Hound is still alive and that the Brotherhood Without Banners is important but Lady Stoneheart isn't. Clearly, season six has revealed way too much. So much that book might just die out.
The show may now have a significant impact on the anticipation of Martin's next book.
Martin has assured readers that the show won’t spoil all the book surprises, but the presence of Jon Snow in the most recent series of Game Of Thrones suggests that the most significant points will be broadcast.
Source: The New Daily
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