Shoehorned extra plot makes the show drag

I've read the original books so I remember what was part of the original plot and what wasn't. It's extremely obvious that the extra content shoehorned in to the show is hurting the pacing and the quality of the episodes.

It actually feels like some of the other actors complained that they didn't get a big enough role so they shoehorned in extra plot to stroke their egos and it causes the plot to drag badly.

It's especially obvious now that they've had to do some serious mental gymnastics to justify returning a critical and important character role to where they were meant to be in the story, something that wouldn't have been a problem if they hadn't shoehorned extra unnecessary characters into the plot in the first place and followed the source content.

I can only hope they stop messing with the story in the last 2 seasons and return to a faithful adaption of the original novels.

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