MONDAY MINUTIAE = UNSCENE IN WESTEROS

‘Game of Thrones’ has been over for more than a month now, and here I am still yammering on about it.

I haven’t read the books, and the TV show trundled on before the last two books have been published, but just from the truncated final season I know that the viewers were missing out on so much.  And as such it serves as a great example of the deep divide between Toobworld and BookWorld.

George R.R. Martin, the man who created this world in both metafictional universes, acknowledges that:

“If nothing else, the readers will learn what happened to Jeyne Poole, Lady Stoneheart, Penny and her pig, Skahaz Shavepate, Arianne Martell, Darkstar, Victarion Greyjoy, Ser Garlan the Gallant, Aegon VI, and a myriad of other characters both great and small that viewers of the show never had the chance to meet.  And yes, there will be unicorns… of a sort…Book or show, which will be the ‘real’ ending? It’s a silly question…How about this? I’ll write it. You read it. Then everyone can make up their own mind, and argue about it on the internet.”  

Even having not read the books, I don’t have to make up my mind.  For me they’re both valid because they are two different universes.

And who knows?  All of those characters probably do exist in the Earth Prime-Time version of the saga; we just didn’t get the chance to meet them.

BCnU!