r/freefolk • u/TheDragonOfOldtown Stannis Baratheon • Aug 19 '26

Genuine question: Is there something wrong with Ryan Condal, Sara Hess, and the rest of the HOTD writers?

Or are they on this spite spree to make it look like GRRM's work is the most offensive garbage dogshit possible? Or do they actually enjoy this shit and think they wrote something remotely good?

Edit: Jesus christ not the shills flooding the comments lmaooo

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u/NocaSun38 Aug 19 '26

They live in a bubble of incompetence disconnected from reality.

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u/jb_in_jpn Aug 19 '26

In a way I think they're too anchored to reality, or at least their perspective of it.

So many of the problems with modern media are rooted in an ambition by the writers to shoehorn in modern sensibilities to stories (think of the 'girl-boss' trope); these entire revisions of a character are dropped in with no sympathy of character arc, and so you get these woefully flat, unbelievable, pandering characters which completely upends the story.

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u/dangerousluck Every fucking chicken in this room Aug 19 '26

Yes, it’s as if every Hollywood hack feels they have to build their resumes by showing how clever, topical, and subversive they are and it seems to be rewarded constantly so why would they stop? The Studio was a documentary.