[Music] George RR Martin shared his thoughts on the controversial changes made in House of the dragon deviating from his books and a now deleted post titled beware the butterflies on September 4th the 75-year-old author warned of even more toxic changes to come in future Seasons he specifically highlighted differences in the blood and cheese plot in the season 2 premiere previously on August 30th Martin had announced his intention to write about everything that's gone wrong with House of the Dragon I promised you some further thoughts about blood and cheese and mailer the missing after my commentary on the first two episodes of Hot D season 2 a son for a son and rener of the cruel he explained on Wednesday those were terrific episodes well written welld directed powerfully acted a great way to kick off the new season Martin said adding that fans and critics seemed to agree he observed that the handling of blood and cheese and the death of Prince J's received significant criticism from the commentary I saw online opinion was split there the readers of Fire and Blood found the sequence underwhelming a disappointment watered down from what they were expecting viewers who had not read the book had no such problems most of them found the sequence a real gut Punch Tragic horrifying ining nightmarish Etc some reported being reduced to tears I found myself agreeing with both sides he also noted significant differences between the book and show including the ages and number of children in a specific house which had been altered for the series in my book Aon and helina have three children not two the twins Jay hares and Jara are 6 years old they have a younger brother mailor who is two when blood and cheese break in on Helena and the kids they tell her they are debt collectors come to exact revenge for the death of Prince lucer a son for a son as helina has two sons however they demand that she choose which one should die she resists and offers her own life instead but the killers insist it has to be a son if she does not name one they will kill all three of the children to save the life of the twins Helena names maer but blood kills the older boy J hares instead while cheese tells little mailor that his mother wanted him dead whether the boy is old enough to understand that is not at all certain there is no Mailer in House of the Dragon only the twins he continued I still believe the scene in the book is stronger the readers have the right of that Martin said adding the two killers are crueler in the book I thought the actors who played the killers on the show were excellent but the characters are crer harder and more frightening in Fire and Blood before concluding his lengthy post Martin wrote and there are larger and more toxic butterflies to come if House of the Dragon goes ahead with some of the changes being contemplated for seasons 3 and four House of the Dragon a prequel to Game of Thrones is based on George RR Martin's book Fire and Blood and set 200 years before the original series Martin co-created the show and is an executive producer with both seasons now available on max