'GOT' final series not completely faithful to books: GRR Martin

Game of Thrones author GRR Martin says final season of epic fantasy HBO show was t completely faithful to his book series, A Song of Fire And Ice on which it was based.

remark comes hot on heels of eighth and final chapter of GOT winning outstanding drama series Emmy, including an individual trophy for Peter Dinkl in supporting actor in drama series category.

" (final) series has been... t completely faithful. Orwise, it would have to run ar five seasons," Martin told Fast Company magazine.

loss in a book-to-screen aptation can be "traumatic", author mitted.

"Because sometimes ir creative vision and your creative vision don't match, and you get famous creative differences thing - that les to a lot of conflict," he ded.

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GOT showrunners David Benioff and Dan B Weiss were called out for below-par script writing and poor portrayal of women in last season, resulting in lakhs of fans across world sign an online petition urging network to redo final chapter, which ended in May.

"David Benioff and DB Weiss have proven mselves to be woefully incompetent writers when y have source material (ie books) to fall back on.

"This series deserves a final season that makes sense. Subvert my expectations and make it happen, HBO," petition re.

Martin, who earlier spoke about "toxic" culture of online fandoms making environment volatile for artistes, said interference of Hollywood studios and networks with character arcs doesn't help eir.

"You get totally extraneous things like studio or network weighing in, and y have some particular thing that has thing to do with story, but relates to 'Well this character has a very high Q Rating so let's give him a lot more stuff to do'."

In August, Martin promised fans that controversial climax of TV series will t influence his future vels in book series.

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