![]() It’s the children we started with-Arya, Bran, Dany, Sansa, and Jon-who will matter in the end regardless if any of them ever get to sit on the Iron Throne. And the more the show progresses and trims some of the fat, the more it becomes obvious that in the end, those new book characters-all the extra Martells, Greyjoys, and Conningtons- don’t actually matter. If anything, the kids are growing up too fast. But the fact remains that Martin is trying to let his main characters grow up and is padding his books with a lot of extraneous plot in order to give them room to do so. Martin is absolutely right that our definition may vary when it comes to “nothing” happening. There that I think a lot of writers skip over. Character developmentĪnd changing is good, and there are some tough things in I don’t think it all has toīe battles and sword fights and assassinations. “nothing,” I think, differently than I am. I get complaints sometimes that nothing happens-but they’re defining The first one who cant come up with the right answer is the loser. More Great Game of Thrones Stories from Vanity Fair It’s catch-up time: everything you need to know about Seasons 5, 6, and 7 About that new Season 8 footage The 15 most essential. But while that plan worked for some characters like Bran (studying with the weird tree dude) or Arya (training in the House of Black and White), it didn’t for others like Jon and Cersei whose lives are so tangled up in the main plot. In The Hobbit, Gollum and Bilbo play the riddle game, which is a contest of knowledge. ![]() “And I will come back to these characters,” he said, “when they're a little more grown up.” Martin planned for this jump to happen between A Storm of Swords and A Feast for Crows (in other words roughly between last season and the current one). Initially, Martin planned to solve that problem with a five year time jump. As Martin told io9, his original concept for A Song of Ice and Fire was to start the story when Jon, Bran, Arya, etc., were children and end with them as adults but he found time was passing a little too slowly in his writing and “you end a book, and you’ve had a tremendous amount of events-but they’ve taken place over a short time frame, and the eight-year-old kid is still eight years old.” But in light of an interview Martin gave earlier this month, it’s more likely that Young Griff is just one of several stalling tactics Martin has used to pad out his series. Game of Thrones on the cover of Vanity Fairs April 2014 issue. So, can Young Griff/Aegon still be important even if he’s not in the HBO series? Possibly! He is certainly significant in that he lends texture and color to Martin’s vast and epic tale. Game of Thrones in Vanity Fair: get the medieval look Fashion The Guardian.
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