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If I was advising grrm, I would tell him that he should ditch some of his vision in order to expand it to what asoiaf needs to be. This isn't new to him since it was originally supposed to be a novella and then a trilogy. He should accept that the show will become something entirely different and that it will end long before the books do. More importantly, he should accept that the story has become global. The seasons are a global phenomenon, which means that any story to do winter justice must give substantive weight to Asshai, Sothoryos, and Ulthos. Nobody knows if the Grey Waste and the Five Forts are Essos' version of the Land of Always Winter and The Wall, but they kinda have to be to make the narrative make sense.
So basically the show should just do what grrm was planning with Dany in Westeros and blah blah, but the books should totally depart and turn the story global, opening up new lore about the role of Sothoryos in the song of ice and fire. It should probably end up with something like Dany never even gets to Westeros, but instead leads an army against the legions of the night as they attack from an ice landbridge that extends from the Land of Always Winter, across the Sunset Sea, into Yi Ti and Asshai. Sothoryos and Ulthos should be realms of Summer, with important roles. Meanwhile Stannis and Jon battle it from Westeros. Then in about book 9, A Dream of Summer can finally happen
Sadly this will not come to pass
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