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Mead posted...

For example the interactions between Tywin and Arya at Harrenhall. That only exists in the show and provided a lot of compelling insight into both characters.

That's pretty much an example of their fanservice mentality, though. "What's that? People like Arya and Tywin? Fuck it, let's put them in a scene together."

The flip-side of that was Ros - she was their OC DONUT STEEL character that they liked so much they decided to turn her one throwaway scene into a much longer running role at least until they killed her off.

Those are the tendencies they had right from the beginning, which weren't as terrible while they were still mostly stuck to the rails of the existing plot, but which spiraled out of control once they ran out of source material to work from.

It's also not a huge plus in their favor, when you realize they left out scenes from the books that gave better insight into the personalities of other characters or events. So things kind of balance out a bit.

One could argue that their main flaw was that they got lost in the idea of having little moments or cool scenes, but never really thought about how they all flowed together as part of the larger narrative. Which, again, wasn't a huge problem so long as they had the road-map to tell them where to go, but once they had to start plotting their own course everything fell apart because they simply weren't Big Picture type people.
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