I never read the books but from what I hear they aren't staying true to the characters, I think had I'd read the books I'd be more upset about that. From what I hear GoT was the same way (Tyrion was way more sadistic after the whole father incident)
They've changed a bunch of characters and details. The issue is why they changed it.
In GoT you expect some adaptation, theres over a thousand named characters, over 5 thousand manuscript pages across 5 books. tons and tons of shit happens. Its expected that they prune some characters and storylines down, minor details change, etc. Of course each season it snowballs, more and more changes based on previous changes. Eventually they went past the books and just had to wing it, write their own story and have been universally ridiculed and derided for their shitty writing/ending/last few seasons.
This story however is based on about 500 pages of a completed work, half of a book. It is written as a summary, or an outline. It has only a fraction of the named characters. Plenty of room to insert dialogue and add to the story if you wish, but theres no reason to change anything.
And yet they changed tons of shit, just for woke points. Their writing is still just as bad.
Penance said:
Who the fuck are the velaryons and are they related to velaryia? Would be cool to learn more about that area as the doom is apparently linked to dragon riding in some form?
They are a noble house from valyria that settled on driftmark long before the doom of valyria, long before the Targaryens settled on dragonstone. They were never dragon lords so didnt have much pull in valyrian politics so no one gave a shit that they left.
The doom was the volcanic eruption that destroyed valyria. Dragonriding is not related to the doom, its related to valyria (where dragons are from) and around 20 noble houses whose bloodlines had the ability to ride dragons. The doom destroyed all of those houses and killed all of their dragons, except the Targaryens, who had moved to dragonstone 6 years before the eruption.
Sylas
then spent entire season larping an angry book nerd, lol
