HBO tried to make the line go up by cutting two episodes off the second season in the midst of the writer’s strike. Like no exaggeration, the season 2 finale ends in a way that makes it immediately obvious two more episodes were supposed to exist. They were simply truncated along with the all the payoff for many of this season’s character arcs and plot lines.
One of the writers even made a statement that an eight episode season wasn’t their decision. Unfortunately the news of that must have hit them too late in production to fully accommodate that in the writing.
Except on all the subreddits for this show, the prevailing opinion amongst dipshit redditors is that the writers are cutting book events to make time for LGBTQ asoiaf fanfiction.
While that’d be based if true, it’s not. Like wtf? Do these people live in a different universe? Are they watching a different dragon show? Redditors ain’t alright, man. These people watch the enshittification of media in real time, and their lack of media literacy results in them going on queerphobic witch hunts and throwing wild assignment of blame at anything but HBO and capitalism.
A lot of Fire & Blood is the story as told by the court jester, who it is heavily implied made up a bunch of raunchy details to make the story more interesting. The show cuts away all of the ambiguity and contradictory details and presents a single “true” version of events for the audience.
Like, it sure is convenient that that one character died falling off of her horse. You could imagine Westeros’ historians omitting or not knowing the event depicted in the show.
Mushroom only tells the truth, especially when he says his dick is as big as his head.