I’m sure David would enjoy adapting “Fire & Blood” [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss] I struggled with adapting A Song of Ice and Fire [for “Game of Thrones”], that there isn’t much detail or information out there. In fact, there are huge swaths of things George left out to leave to the imagination of the reader, or, as a history buff, to illustrate how hard it really is to undo history after the fact. I have.
The way history is written is inherently biased. This particular history is written by men about a war they see as inspired by two women from certain aspects of the debate. So our job is basically to take a stance. We show the way to objective truth through this unreliable narrative, this “false history”—George’s, not mine—what he wrote. I think a lot of pitchforks and torches will be brought up from certain segments of the fandom, but you have to choose as a storyteller about what happened and why.
It doesn’t always come clean and characters don’t always fit into these neat archetypes. That is the nature of real people.
That seems to be most specifically true in the case of Prince Demon. So much so that he criticizes the executive producer, Sarah Jes. Demon’s rating is not good. Did you see this coming?
I’m having trouble understanding. We quickly established in the pilot that Daemon is a charming guy, but he’s not Ned Stark.
To me, Damon is the antihero of this story. He’s a character with real darkness to him, dangerous and charming at the same time. I thought he would do the same as Red Viper. I didn’t think so…it simply isn’t. it’s not. Nor will it be in the future.