Game Of Thrones: GRRM's Time Jump Plan Explained (& Why It Didn't Happen) By Jordan Williams. Published Apr 26, 2022. George R.R. Martin once planned for a major time jump in Game of Thrones' books, which would have significantly impacted the TV adaptation. Although Game of Thrones covered a broad timeline of the characters’ journeys, author Eight years after the release of A Dance With Dragons, the fifth book in George R.R. Martin’s A Song Of Ice And Fire remains its last.Martin has been promising the follow-up, The Winds Of Winter People were disappointed by the Game of Thrones finale, and it wasn’t a super satisfying way to leave a show that had captured the world’s attention for so long. @Chilango83 had this in mind Jon Snow's resurrection was one of the most famous moments on Game of Thrones, but the explanation for how (and even why) it happened has been less-than-satisfactory.As critical as Jon Snow's death episode was during the height of GoT's popularity — the season 5 finale, "Mother's Mercy" — the expected justification for it through wider narrative significance hadn't come by the time season HBO’s Game of Thrones hit the scene in 2011, just months before A Dance With Dragons arrived on shelves. At the time, few readers expected the show to be a hit. It was a high-concept fantasy Feb. 16, 2020. Alright, let’s be honest. Daenerys Targaryen’s shocking turn toward madness in “The Bells,” the second-to-last episode of Game of Thrones Season 8, didn’t make much sense By Eliana Dockterman. May 2, 2016 1:33 PM EDT. J on Snow is alive —or at least he is on television. In the Song of Ice and Fire books upon which the HBO show is based, Jon Snow remains dead. And Apple TV+ and HBO. "Game of Thrones" star Hannah Waddingham opened up about the challenge of filming her death scene. Speaking with Collider, the actress said Septa Unella was originally going to be raped. She said that changed at the last minute, which led to a 10-hour day of filming the "waterboarding." NEW LOOK. The start of season six marked the first time that Game of Thrones overtook A Song of Fire and Ice –though Martin worked closely with the show’s writers, providing quite a bit in the way of Published on July 23, 2020. Throughout the eight-season run of HBO's Game of the Thrones, EW editor-at-large James Hibberd covered the show with diligence and deftness which would have impressed oYU4.