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"In the end, the show seems to be in excellent hands. The writers clearly love the setting, filling nooks and crannies of the dialog with passing references to historical matter or certain turns of phrase pulled straight from the novels, often with no further explanation but simply helping give the sense of a world that existed before the TV show opened a window into it and will continue to exist once the show is done. Sapochnik’s direction in the first and sixth episodes is unimpeachable – the opening of episode 6 is particularly strong, in our mind, thanks to that direction – and helps set an overall style reminiscent of the cinematography of
Game of Thrones but with quite a bit more saturation and vibrancy. George and HBO have found the right team, we suspect, to bring the Dance to the mass audience. Of course, we thought the same of
Game of Thrones after the first season, which had its head-scratchers too but was otherwise quite faithful, so take our view with a grain of salt. Still, right now we see no reason to worry for the show thanks to the way George is deeply involved in a way that he wasn’t since the very earliest days of
Game of thrones, and the fact that Ryan Condal has been a fan of the novels for longer than some
Game of Thrones fans have been alive.
We suspect the show will be a hit, and it will be deservedly so. But we urge anyone reading this who has doubts because of season 8’s controversial ending to give it a try, focusing on the fact that it is a completely different creative team. It’s not reasonable, in our opinion, to blame one group of artists for something some other group of artists did. Enter the first episode with an open mind, and we suspect you’ll want to keep watching once it’s done."