The makers also used this incongruity in establishing the patriarchal aspect of the show, “one of the themes that we ran with when we started thinking about it was that history is written by the victors, history is written by men. So, nobody in that book actually knows what happened.” It’s in that not knowing that the makers have found the ability to tell a version of their own story, “It’s three separate reporters saying what they think might have happened and contradicts each other, which gives us as adapters, an incredible amount of leeway because we have no idea what happened.” The latest episode, ‘We Light the Way,’ is a great example of this, while we see Ser Criston Cole snapping and killing Ser Joffery, the Knight of Kisses, during the dinner that took even the avid book readers by surprise in books it happened during the tourney that King Viserys had planned. Hess tells, “He’s very, very clear in writing the book that it is an unreliable narrative. Martin outlines the Targaryen history in the Fire and Blood books as part of the backstory of his series A Song of Ice and Fire.
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