Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2015 7:35:02 GMT
While I have always been mindful of George's insistence that the two stories have their own individual canon, I still cannot see how they could possibly diverge too far from his backbone of the plot for the endgame and still hope for the two to meet up at the end as they state they will do. Leaving characters out even when George states they have roles in the future of the story (such as the older two Tyrell brothers) might be ok, but actually killing off a character who has a vital role in the story further down the road would paint themselves into a corner, wouldn't it? That's the butterfly effect he always refers to becoming a hurricane at that point - you can't write yourself out of it.
That being said, even if Stannis isn't the one to order Shireen's sacrifice in the book, and yet she still is sacrificed, it fundamentally changes Stannis the character but not the story, right? It still happens one way or the other and she does not play a part in the final end-game. She does not somehow end up on the Iron Throne or help in the defeat of the white walkers or anything else we might have speculated about. I do not think D&D would do that. They may make some strange or bad choices in the story at times, but that would be so major as to break the story if she does in fact have some important role to play and is now dead.
Changing Sansa's story so drastically might have felt hugely game-changing to many of us, but if she still ends up being in the same place by the end of the show's story and achieving the same goal, whatever that is, then it didn't really affect the story, it just changed it. If they killed her off, that would be different.
That being said, even if Stannis isn't the one to order Shireen's sacrifice in the book, and yet she still is sacrificed, it fundamentally changes Stannis the character but not the story, right? It still happens one way or the other and she does not play a part in the final end-game. She does not somehow end up on the Iron Throne or help in the defeat of the white walkers or anything else we might have speculated about. I do not think D&D would do that. They may make some strange or bad choices in the story at times, but that would be so major as to break the story if she does in fact have some important role to play and is now dead.
Changing Sansa's story so drastically might have felt hugely game-changing to many of us, but if she still ends up being in the same place by the end of the show's story and achieving the same goal, whatever that is, then it didn't really affect the story, it just changed it. If they killed her off, that would be different.