HotD and the controversy with GRRM´s co-authors: what´s to do with it?

Episode 8 of HotD gave a twist to the books written by Martin and co-authors Linda Antonsson and her husband Elio García Jr. Laenor Velaryon did not die, he had rather faked his death, aided by Daemon and Rhaenyra, so that all three of them could finally have a chance to live the life they wanted.

HBO and the showrunners are still standing by that awfull choice of lighting, that let us see little of the action in the night sceenes, but the story is worth us setting TV to max brightness.

I think Ryan Condal is doing a great work with the show so far, much better than D&D did with GoT. Yes, he meddled with the careful worldbuilding, but not to such an extent that it can´t be retconned, or that it shakes the core of the action, or of the characters themselves.

Linda and Elio came into Ice and Fire first as dedicated fans who built a detailed lore site, and they are talented writers themselves. They managed a wiki site, wrote a lot, and refused to do something that George RR Martin absolutely hates: they did not write fanfics. They wrote the entries as entries in history books.

They have proven to be an invaluable source of workforce for George, as they are competent, organized, mindful and respectful of the original material, obssessive, and diligent. I believe they should co-author the final books of A Song of Ice and Fire saga, rather than stay with the "historic books" at this point.

Sometimes a gardener needs assistants.

I have said only the good things about the guys, but there is also the controversial stuff. And they are a very opinionated couple, therefore the fandom can mine loads of sh*t that they said at some point of their life that can either be racist, mysogynous, homophobic, or at list be misconstrued as so.

By the way, GRRMartin has never called them out and still works with them, and I can understand why, they are good, and it is pretty probable that they are not racist, homophobic or mysogynous in real life.

These people are committed to building a fictional world, so perfect that the characters can live on it and the reader will be able to feel that that world is alive, the scenery, civilizations, societies, languages, morals and ethics, the codes, they are helping to lay the groundwork where Jon will live, where Arya will live as Cat of the canals, the Dothraki seas, the three cities daughters of Valyria, where Valyrian blood is still present. They had to come up with signs that the reader can easily identify, so he can picture the character in his mind, and move it into de narrative.

Then, when a show changes characters genders, or colors, ethnicities, the guys who have been working with and on this world building will certainly decry it as wrong, as a betrayal of the original material. They might be so immersed in their work that they loose sight of world outside,

Maybe, just maybe, they could use the show as feedback to steer back the ship (the book series), back on a good course. 

The fault lies with this media diva: George RR Martin:

He should be much more organized and managed his assistants, he should have already finished the saga, instead of branching out. He has a great mind, but he needs to open up to sugestions, to manage his minions, and get to work.

House of the Dragon is proving that there is still demand for Dragons, and for retconning the end of GoT somehow with a spin off, which can be based on his final books. Even if writers and showrunners tweak a little, working with a solid material makes the result awesome.

I hope de fandom gets less toxic and more supportive of the crew finishing the saga.