The Games of Thrones Trousers of Time

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raisindot

Sergeant-at-Arms
Oct 1, 2009
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#1
AVAST, YE SPOILERS AHEAD!!!





Anyone who has read all of the Song of Fire and Ice books and watched the most recent season of Game of Thrones will notice a seemingly irreconcilable split in the narrative timeline.

The series takes the characters of Tyrion, Jaime and Daensys in very new directions, and "invents" plotlines for Sansa, LIttlejohn, Jon Snow and Jaime Lannister that haven't been written yet. The only plotlines that adhere closely to that of the fourth and fifth books are those of Circe, Arya and Stannis.

One wonders whether the series producers felt that Martin would never be able to write faster than the progress of the series, or that his plotlines weren't dramatically viable for TV and decided to ask him to come up with an alternative timelines. In either case, the TV changes are for the better. The fifth book's Tyrion plotline was ridiculous, and the complete omission of Sansa's fate left a huge narrative hole. Jon Snow's TV timeline, while a little compressed, is a lot more exciting (and hopefully avoids what happened at the end of the fifth book).

The main problem here is for Martin's bookwriting. How will he possibly reconcile the book plotlines with the series' plotlines without having to resort to clunk narrative changeroos? Or will he choose not to, deciding to continue the book's narrative in the way he envisioned, and leave the two "trousers of time" as separate timelines?
 

kizkiz

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Apr 25, 2012
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#2
Martin has already said that the two are separate entities.
The series writers are free to do what they want within the plot outlines he has given them. I suspect the end outcome will be generally the same, but the journey will be different
 

Quatermass

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Dec 7, 2010
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I heard somewhere that Martin also gave them story ideas on how to finish or continue the series when they overtake him.
 

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