Earlier this week, A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin wrote a blog post where he took to ask HBO's Game of Thrones prequel show House of the Dragon for changing too many elements from his book Fire & Blood. In particular, he took issue with showrunner Ryan Condal's decision to cut the character of Maelor Targaryen, a choice Martin thinks will have negative ripple effects later in the series. It was pretty clear he had complaints about how Condal and company have adapted his work, possibly even bigger ones than just Maelor, but it's unclear if we'll get to see them; Martin took down the blog post shortly after it went up.

We'd guess that there was some back-and-forth with HBO involved, although that's just us speculating. While this was happening, HBO dropped an emergency episodes of its House of the Dragon podcast where Condal talked...