A Knight of The Seven Kingdoms, the new spinoff-series of Game of Thrones, will eventually run out of books. Fans fear the worst, but the showrunner gives reassurance: Fans need not worry about a fiasco like the final season of GoT.
What kind of series is this? A Knight of The Seven Kingdoms is the second spinoff series of Game of Thrones on HBO after House of the Dragon and another prequel.
The plot does not follow any of the major houses, but the knight Ser Duncan “the Tall”. He is accompanied by his young squire nicknamed “Egg”. The series is once again based on a book by George R. R. Martin, this time it is the three Hedge Knight novellas.
What are fans afraid of? The creators of the series are slowly but surely running out of books: There are only three Hedge Knight novellas, and a second season is already in production. Fans are afraid of a significant decline in quality if the book source material is exhausted and the series continues.
The same fate befell the original series. The showrunners of Game of Thrones, David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, ran out of book material from season 5 onwards. The following seasons were received worse and worse, culminating in the final fiasco of season 8.
The last season of Game of Thrones was not well received by fans at all:
- On Metacritic, season 8 has the worst user score of all seasons with 4.1/10 (based on 1,699 ratings)
- On Rotten Tomatoes, the finale fared no better, as only 30% of over 10,000 viewer ratings were positive
The showrunner is open about it – and reassures fans
What does the showrunner say about it? During a Q&A on Reddit, a fan asked the showrunner of A Knight of The Seven Kingdoms, Ira Parker, a very direct question:
“Is there anything you can say to assuage those fears, along with maybe some rough plans for what you guys are going to do after Season 3?”
Parker explains that the risk of a fiasco like with GoT season 8 is not completely gone, but it is lower. He states: “in some ways, we know a lot more about what happens after these three novellas because of all the supporting material.” The “supporting material” in this case being George R. R. Martin’s main book series, A Song of Ice and Fire.
If the series continues after the third book (which is not guaranteed), they also want to work closely with the author.
“Anything beyond book 3 (if we could ever be so wonderfully lucky) would highly involve George.”
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