For the first 4-5 seasons, the show didn't use that many screenwriters. This made sense as they were pretty much just adapting the source material. If you look at the writing credits for each episode, it's almost always either D&D, Bryan Cogman, and one or two others, with GRRM sometimes stepping in to do one episode a season.
Once they ran out of book material to adapt, what they should have done is extremely obvious in hindsight: hire a staff of seasoned writers and set up a real writer's room, the kind almost every scripted series would normally have. I'm not saying they should have completely changed the writers, as that would have felt jarring. Benioff, Weiss, and Cogman would still have been the main writers and overseen everything, but they also would have had a large writing staff to work with. In Season 6, the show went from being an adaptation to a completely original story, and given the large number of characters and subplots who needed to come up with conclusions that even GRRM himself hasn't finished, a large staff was the best way to handle this.
Instead, D&D just took the entire workload on by themselves. The two of them had to be the showrunners on the largest and most expensive TV production in history while also trying to write the ending themselves to a story that had no ending, that was conceived by someone else on such a large and vast scale, and in a short amount of time.
We'll never know how things would have turned out otherwise, but having a larger staff of writers certainly wouldn't have hurt.
Submitted December 01, 2019 at 09:13PM by CalvinValjean https://ift.tt/2rHwRkK
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