Here’s no way to get in all the detail, all the minor characters, all the secondary characters. We won’t know for sure how similar the endings are until Martin’s final book comes out, but he’s said himself that the show’s ending probably isn’t “ that different” from the one he’s mulling. However, her comment about Benioff and Weiss “distorting” things is editorializing. Gabaldon is repeating a well-known story here about when Martin met with Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss about halfway through the series to tell them his thoughts about the ultimate ending, after it became clear that the show was going to catch up to him. Only they didn’t write accordingly, they took his stuff, and distorted it and wrote their own ending, which wasn’t at all what he had in mind but used all the elements that he told them. What happened is that his show caught up with him, and he then met with the showrunners and he told them what he was planning to do in that book, so that they could then write accordingly. Gabaldon says it’s a “nod or a dig, depending on how you want to interpret it.” “It was definitely more of a challenge to write, mostly because of the chronology, which was very complicated,” Gabaldon told The Guardian. She even named one of her chapters “The Winds of Winter,” a reference to the long-in-coming sixth book in Martin’s saga. It’s been seven years since the last Outlander book came out, which is a long time but still short of what Martin’s fans are used to. She’s putting out he own novel right now: Go Tell The Bees That I Am Gone, the ninth book in her Outlander series. Martin, the writer of the Song of Ice and Fire novels HBO adapted as Game of Thrones, for years. Some context: Gabaldon has been friends with George R.R. Diana Gabaldon, author of the very successful Outlander books, sounds like she has some issues too. It’s been over two years since the ending of Game of Thrones aired on HBO, to huge audience numbers and a lot of ridicule whether you loved it or hated it, the ending has become infamous for stirring up very vocal dissatisfaction online, and it’s not just fans who are complaining.

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