Game of Thrones had such promise. I got hold of the first 3 seasons at about the time the fourth season came out. I subscribed to HBO and watched religiously all the way to the end. In the final season, Beniof and Weiss decided that they wanted to wrap it up and so they quickly they together the ending so they could get on to a different project. It doesn’t help that James Martin didn’t finish the books. First they killed john snow and then revived his corpse. Then they put denerys and john snow into bed together despite the fact that she was his aunt. They made Denerys into a genocidal maniac and told us that it was because she went crazy. They killed all of the wolves and the head of the white walkers and then had cersi die in a rock pile. I was so insulted by that wrapping up that I canceled HBO and I swear never to subscribe to HBO again and if I watch any of their shows it will be second hand.
Well, sir or ma’am, I respectfully submit: The topic of this post really isn’t a discussion of the merits or the disappointments of the GoT series... it is much more that a single scene is isolated and analyzed to show stellar character development. Robert Baratheon doesn’t even last past season one, but his character is someone you get to truly know from this one scene.
This is the sort of writing I aspire to. I have certain aspects of writing well-mastered in my first novel. I want to get better.