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I read something earlier that made some sense to me, about how they named the series Game of Thrones because the intent all along was to focus on the human drama and not the supernatural element. Whereas the books, a Song of Ice and Fire, were about how those human elements were a distraction from the real supernatural threat.
Which is why, as much as we've heard about how much GRRM told them, and how much they might not want the books to dismantle anything from TV, I think the books may be very different from the show. And while GRRM has often spoken about the importance of the political elements, there is so much of the supernatural from the books that doesn't exist at all on tv, from prophesies to characters to magical objects, and those elements aren't just going to disappear in the future novels. If anything they'll probably increase as the end approaches.
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