I didn't know where to put this and this thread seems dormant.

I've been watching and read the first GOT (Game of Thrones) and have seen that George Martin is a consultant on the TV show.

How much do you think popularity/public response to the TV series is going to influence his 5th/6th etc novels? ie would he have previously killed off Tyrion, but seeing the response Peter Dinklage has from the audience he may now keep him alive?

Do you think JK Rowling was influenced in the same way with Harry Potter?

BTW - I think YWO seems like a nicer, calmer place of late. It scared me off for a while with all the madness!

Fascinating literary insights Youngun, but not really relevant to what I asked. But I enjoyed your potted critiques. I'd put a winky emoticon here to show you that I mean that in a lighthearted way, but I suspect you don't enjoy emoticons.

Choose a genre, any genre that might interest you and apply the same question. So you think that the author is swayed by a TV/film adaptation?

And as for the MB, I don't come on here very often enough to know if it is dull. It just seems so much less screechy.

Tony, the same thing happened with the HP books as with the films: started well, peaked with "The Prisoner of Askaban," and then became little more than potboilers. But I suppose if your pots are making you that sort of money, you're going to keep them boiling away. ********************************************************************************
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IMHO...

The Game of Thrones books are better than the TV series, but the TV has been picking up recently. I'm not sure I like the added sex/nudity for titillation, and Daenerys should be more convincing as the natural leader she is by this point, but so many others are doing very well, and they have been pretty good at cutting the narrative down to be manageable. GRRM used to be a scriptwriter himself so he can advise them sensibly. And the series seems to be catching a lot of people who would never normally touch fantasy with a bargepole.

I think GRRM had got pretty far into the books with Tyrion alive before they aired the TV series, so it hasn't affected him. Besides, the stand-out thing is the total conviction that NO CHARACTER IS SAFE, AT ANY TIME. He does that so well that I'm not sure Dany, Tyrion or anyone will survive the next book, and there's a real chance the world might not get saved.

He's certainly not perfect, though. Every time he does his "I don't want too much obtrusive magic" speech I have a little chuckle at his 500ft-high millennia-old ice wall and the existence of land-based life in in the permanently frozen lands beyond it!

I still think "good on JKR" even if she's not perfect and the films after HP2 were terrible. Book 6 I think could have been skipped entirely but Book 7 was good. Now she is out of contract and in the happy position of only having to write what she wants, when she wants. One day....

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Tony, if you haven't read the books, you can't comment on JKR and HP. Even the earliest films sacrificed most of the humour and logic of the story in favour of pointless action sequences. With each succeeding film, missing threads caused ever greater problems and most of the films don't make sense unless you've read the books.