One of the big things I heard about him was that he was a big reason the show stayed close to lore, because he was such a fan.
That’s what trips me up about the whole “disregarding female writers and directors” thing—I don’t think that’s untrue, but there’s a good chance it was just disregarding EVERYONE due to disagreements on lore
It is kind of a yikes situation because he may be disagreeing because of deviations from lore, but the way those disagreements are voiced, dealt with, and resolved can certainly be different because of the gender of the writing staff, and particularly the showrunner. The women working in the show have every right to feel he was being toxic with them because there is way more men can get away with in workplaces in a patriarchal society.
the show stayed close to lore
Except it didn’t? S2 was very different from lore, and most of the G@mers at :reddit-logo: use that fact and how different from the “awesome Geraldo kills monstars and fucks big tiddy sorceress” games it was to defend toxicity and overall bad work behavior. I’m not siding with anyone on this thing because i’ve read some not great stuff from the showrunner, but the flavor of fan hate they’re getting from the books/games fandom is way ickier than say, the dorks who turned GoT into the shitshow it ended up being, for apparently no other reason than “the mean woman showrunner is making the show woke, and therefore bad”.
Fair. The way i’ve heard it is that he really nerded out on the games/books before production, so he would be offering “changes” which were just pulling the show towards the books. I can understand them being kind of a dick about it, especially for someone who may be emotionally close to the source material, and displaying some gamer attitudes when a large part of the production team is women.
