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 abs...