It's an ongoing double standard...

A Song of Ice and Fire writer George R.R. Martin says Game of Thrones needed thirteen seasons to be a more faithful adaptation of his novels.

Will the direwolves finally get justice in the Game of Thrones prequel? Possibly, according to author George R.R. Martin. While fans of Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire book series were excited to see the close companionship between direwolves and the Starks in HBO’s TV adaptation, the show never really got it right. Worse, they outright maligned the direwolves to the point that the creatures never mattered much in the show anyway. Granted a major reason was because actually filming scenes between the humans and wolves was tricky—the show shot in the UK, but the …

The Game of Thrones series finale airs in just one week, but shortly after that, fans of George R.R Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire book series may be in for a huge surprise. The smash-hit HBO series launched in 2011, adapting Martin’s epic fantasy series for the small screen. That same year, Martin published the fifth book in his planned seven-book series, which began in 1996. The show roughly adapted one book per season, but while Martin maintained that he would finish the book series before the TV show wrapped up, it quickly …