HBO has responded to George R.R. Martin’s current criticisms about the second season of House of the Dragon.

It’s not all the time simple to adapt a novel to movie or tv, and irrespective of how devoted you might be to the supply materials, chances are high you’re going to piss somebody off anyway. In the case of House of the Dragon, none apart from writer George R.R. Martin took goal at the second season of the HBO sequence in a since-deleted weblog submit, warning that modifications made in the present will trigger issues later in the story.

It could also be a bit of embarrassing to have the creator of one of your greatest franchises publically criticize it, and HBO has now responded to Martin’s submit. “There are few greater fans of George R.R. Martin and his book Fire & Blood than the creative team on House of the Dragon, both in production and at HBO,” the assertion reads. “Commonly, when adapting a e-book for the display, with its personal format and limitations, the showrunner finally is required to make tough selections about the characters and tales the viewers will observe. We imagine that Ryan Condal and his crew have executed a rare job and the hundreds of thousands of followers the sequence has amassed over the first two seasons will proceed to get pleasure from it.“

In the submit, Martin detailed his opposition to decreasing the quantity of Aegon and Helaena’s kids from three to two. While this doesn’t appear to be the most egregious change, Martin believes it is going to have a “butterfly effect” on later seasons.

“I argued against it, for all these reasons. I did not argue long, or with much heat, however. The change weakened the sequence, I felt, but only a bit. And Ryan had what seemed to be practical reasons for it; they did not want to deal with casting another child, especially a two-year old toddler. Kids that young will inevitably slow down production, and there would be budget implications,” Martin wrote. “Budget was already an issue on HOUSE OF THE DRAGON, it made sense to save money wherever we could. Moreover, Ryan assured me that we were not losing Prince Maelor, simply postponing him. Queen Helaena could still give birth to him in season three, presumably after getting with child late in season two. That made sense to me, so I withdrew my objections and acquiesced to the change.” Martin added, “Sometime between the preliminary choice to take away Maelor, an enormous change was made. The prince’s delivery was now not simply going to be pushed again to season 3. He was by no means going to be born in any respect. The youthful son of Aegon and Helaena would by no means seem.“

Time will inform whether or not this alteration will show detrimental to future seasons of House of the Dragon, however as the creator of the franchise, Martin is definitely entitled to be protecting of his sprawling saga and all its characters.