De hype trein rond om het tweede seizoen van Game of Thrones rijd op volle snelheid over het interwebz heen, en heeft elke geek/nerd website er wel een artikel over. Zo ook GammaSquad die deze lijst heeft gemaakt met vijf redenen waarom de TV serie beter dan de A Song of Ice and Fire boeken van George R.R. Martin is.

#5) Getting To The Goddamn Point

Look, these books are doorstops, and frankly, a lot of it is absolutely unnecessary unless you're putting together a D&D campaign based on the books. Which, yes, many of the readers are doing, but even so, Good Lord. There's a reason Martin offed that character you like: otherwise you'd have stopped paying attention three books ago.

Fantasy series in particular love doing this; turning out lengthy series with high page counts per book. The all time champion is probably Robert Jordan, but Martin's no slouch: "A Dance With Dragons" was a thousand freaking pages, and it's the fifth book. In a series that has at least two books to go. Because he felt the need to fill in a time skip.