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.
