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Game of Thrones Author Posts, Then Quickly Deletes Withering Criticism of House of the Dragon

George R.R. Martin, the creator of the novels and the spin-off on which the HBO series relies, had quite a bit to say about the major change made to the series. On September 4, Martin he published a post on his blog titled “Beware the Butterflies,” which details his concerns about a selected scene from Season 2. However, shortly after the post was posted, Martin deleted it entirely.
Based on the post, which in the archived version could be read hereMartin seriously questioned the way the show’s creators modified the moment known to fans as “Blood and Cheese.” In the programQueen Helaena is accosted in her castle by two intruders who demand that she discover which of her two young children is a boy, ostensibly so that they can assassinate the heir to the Iron Throne. She hesitantly offers them her necklace, but after they insist, she points to Jaehaerys, her son, whom the intruder quickly kills.
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In the novel, Helaena has three children: Jaehaerys, Jaehaera, and Maelor (Maelor doesn’t appear in the series, although Martin claims in a now-deleted blog post that he was told he would seem in season three). When Blood and Cheese (as they’re known in the novel) break in, Helaena first gives up her life, then reluctantly points Maelor out to the killers, who’s the youngest. However, the intruders realize that she is avoiding declaring Jaehaerys, the next in line for the throne, and kill him anyway, with Cheese whispering to Maelor that his mother has chosen him to die before he leaves the castle.
Martin claims he argued with showrunner Ryan Condal about the change, however it didn’t last long “or get too heated,” saying Condal assured him enough that he could accept the change. “(He) had what seemed practical in mind; they didn’t want to deal with casting another child, especially a two-year-old toddler,” Martin wrote. “Children that young would inevitably slow down production and have budgetary implications. Budget was already an issue in , it made sense to save money wherever we could. Plus, Ryan assured me that we weren’t losing Prince Maelor, we were just postponing him. Queen Helaena could still give birth to him in Season 3, likely after she gets pregnant at the end of Season 2. That made sense to me, so I withdrew my objections and agreed to the change.”
While Martin ultimately “still (loved)” the episode despite the changes, he takes a much greater issue with the supposed complete removal of Maelor, writing, “Sometime between the original decision to remove Maelor, a big change was made. The prince’s birth was no longer simply going to be pushed back to Season 3. He was never going to be born at all. Aegon and Helaena’s younger son will never appear.”
He then refers to the “Butterfly Effect,” the philosophical concept that a really small thing, as small as the flutter of a butterfly’s wings, can over time have large implications for seemingly unrelated things. Martin then warns readers about spoilers, writing that “if you’ve never read it, this may not matter, because all I’m going to “spoiler” here are things that happen in the book that may NEVER happen on the show.” I’m warning you about spoilers, because now the most important themes of the novel appear.

In , Helaena commits suicide shortly after Prince Maelor’s death. Because she is beloved by the smallfolk, when rumors spread that Queen Rhaenyra had killed her (since Rhaenyra had taken over King’s Landing by this point), as a substitute of Helaena jumping out of a window in the Red Keep, the residents of King’s Landing flood the streets, demanding justice for his or her beloved ruler. “This is the beginning of the end of Rhaenyra’s rule over the city, ultimately leading to the storming of Dragonpit and the uprising of the Shepherd mob that forces Rhaenyra to flee the city and return to Dragonstone… and her death,” Martin writes.
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He continues: “Maelor doesn’t mean much on his own. He’s a little kid, has no lines of dialogue, doesn’t do anything important except die… but where, when, and how, that matters. Losing Maelor weakened the ending of the Blood and Cheese sequence… undermined the motivation for Helaena’s suicide, which in turn sent thousands of people into the streets and alleys screaming for justice for their “murdered” queen. None of this is necessary, I suppose… but it all serves a purpose, all helps tie the plot threads together, so one thing follows another in a logical and compelling way.”
Martin ends his post with an ominous warning that “if we make some of the changes planned for Seasons 3 and 4, bigger and more toxic butterflies will emerge…”
I find it funny that Martin has never been so publicly spiteful about the ending, which not only deviated from its source material but in addition created entirely latest plots since he hadn’t finished the most important novels yet. And I find it even funnier that he posted such a devastating critique a series that I feel is an adaptation in an appropriate way. But perhaps Martin did what many of us who’re in terminal online mode do, and tweeted and deleted after he enlightened himself a bit. We’ll see.
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Waiting at Battlefield 6 will no longer be with full disclosure this summer


We are actually almost 4 years from restless launch Making it the longest gap between latest entries within the history of a multiplayer franchise. But Electronic Arts guarantees that fans will not need to wonder what will occur next for the longer term much longer. It was published by March 2026, the publisher confirmed on Tuesday.
“Looking to the future, we are sure of our ability to perform a deep pipeline – leading this summer with a very expected disclosure, a key step in providing our next generation Blockbuster Entertainment,” said CEO Andrew Wilson today in a press release. In addition to the upcoming business card, he confirmed that the sport would be available this financial yr, a window that has grow to be way more open because it was pushed back to May 2026.
Wilson earlier suggested that Juggernaut Rockstar Games was a think about the account from the starting window. “We think that the game will be great and ready at this time, but if we approached this time frame and believed that it will not be a great window for us, we are looking at how it could be an alternative window that would give us the right time, energy and player’s acquisition, so that all that must be necessary.
Is it possible that now we see that the game arrives earlier than expected and goes to the head with the next autumn? And will we see the next stick to the current point of 70 USD or jump on Microsoft’s fashion and aim $ 80 with some other editions this holiday season? These will be some of the questions that EA faces when he tries to restore her former glory after a series of errors in recent entries.
So far the noise is positive. Players’ tests and ongoing leaks in the next are longtime fans, excited that the franchise can find its position again, and also return to their roots. It would be nice to have a back in a mixture for many players, even if the live service market is becoming more competitive than ever.
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Tom Cruise promises the underwater sequence “Unlike any other” in the mission: Impossible – final settlement


From speeds to trains to flying motorcycles, Tom Cruise was still attempting to float with each subsequent movie bone breaking during the process. So what could he do to boost the bar? Well, hanging on the side of the plane again Apparently it isn’t the only thing. The aging Hollywood icon is now promising an underwater stuntman, unlike any fans.
“Since 1985 I have been studying and shot underwater sequences for over 40 years”, Cruise Posted on X on Monday. “We have always tried to move our creation of movies to a higher level. In this McQ movie and we saw the opportunity to create an underwater sequence as opposed to any other. We are glad that we can share with you.”
He also published a brief clip from behind the backstage in the production of the film, which incorporates his scenes floating through something that appears to be a fallen submarine in which AI called the essence threatens the world from 2023. It seems that Christopher Mcquarrie, which he directed, and likewise had an entire a part of the interior, was recreated for the scenes. We hope that in addition to the recent ways in which Cruise states that his insurance agents have developed, the sequence isn’t based on special post -production effects to influence.
This isn’t the first principal water feat. I saw a cruise hold your breath for six minutes In the scene where his character, Ethan Hunt, needed to unlock the manhole, spinning around the giant server cooling tank. And this scene took place only after the Cruise was filmed, for which Mcquarrie helped write a script, which ends along with his diving character under the water under the Louvre Pyramid in Paris to kill an enormous aliens.
He hits theaters in just just a few weeks on May 23 and brings many questions whether a cruise and franchise still have recent tricks in the sleeves. First of all, the query arises how the film can be good at many calls with previous entries in the irritated franchise in trailers, and what’s going to tell us about how Hunt joined the IMF, first, the story of the story. The biggest query, nonetheless, is whether or not it should be the last Cruise movie. Given his obsession with movies, Hollywood and his heritage at the ticket office, I doubt it in some way. At least so long as higher than his predecessor.
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If you ask random people in what their favorite class is – classic or – everyone will announce something else as absolutely one of the best. After all, all of us have favorite playtiles. But in case you are latest because you could have never played the unique, there may be actually one class that covers one of the best of offers, right? Is! Here is one of the best class for a beginner, as I used to be declared. – Brandon Morgan Read more
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