Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "George R.R. Martin Is Based As F*ck" video.

What really changed in the deaths of characters before and after they took over is that ASOIAF deaths happen when it seems that the characters still have MUCH to do, and their death puts the story in a completely new direction. GOT post-takeover deaths are made only to slim down the cast. D&D killed characters they didn't know how to handle, so their death doesn't change anything in the genreal direction of the story.
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@meggi8048 There are different kinds of fanfiction. On one side there's "I like the show, but I really don't want to write that story. I want to write my story in that generic setting, an and put the show's characters in it, even if they act out of character". On another side there is "This is the lore, those are the characters, what could have happened between episode X and Episode Y that doesn't contradict the lore in any way?".
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There's a lot of bad fanfiction obviously, but it's quite easy to discover the pearls, respectful of both the characters and the lore.
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@meggi8048 Because those characters are recognizable. They have known backstories, they have done things before that the readers knew, so it's way easier to use them than to invent completely new ones.
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@mattandrews2594 Yeah. Moreover, who's not really interested in a hobby, and gives it only a casual view, only notices crap and weird things. Who is interested in the hobby, doesn't even notice those. They are only noise for him. Because it's used to exclude them from his attention and search for the good.
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@TheBlackfall234 The ending is close (Bran king IE), but mind that the production already barely touched book 5 (the only one published during the show run). For when they reached the books, the TV story was already so different (IE Young Griff, that will have a main part in book 6, didn't exist in the TV show, while the Night King doesn't exist in the books) that another book wouldn't have saved it. Mind also that the delays started after book 3, when he completely changed his previous plans (originally there should have been a 3 years pause in the story). Since then he started to figure out how to wrap up the various treads and end the story. Already in books 4 and 5 there is a lot of filler stuff.
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That's an advantage when adapting Tolkien, since he never writes inner monologues. The narrator never tells us what a character thinks, only what he says and does. On the other hand, you can't write a movie script for "the Hobbit" without heavily adapting it. Because, IE, in the book no other dwarf than Thorin is individually characterized. They are only 13 interchangeable short guys with beard and hat. And that doesn't work in a movie. Or because the battle of the five armies and the death of Thorin happen "out of screen", and that's unacceptable in a movie.
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