How Game of Thrones fans just witnessed an unprecedented shift in how stories are told across media:
“Game of Thrones just dealt a major blow to one of my least favorite nerd arguments: that the book is better than its adaptation. I think two things are chiefly driving this belief: one, the book comes first, making it the primary text; any other medium must therefore be a form of derivative reboot. Two, we assume the author had full creative control over the book, and an adaptation’s writers and director merely came along later to dilute the author’s genius.”
“[…] The TV show passed up Martin’s slow-running source material this season, and the most rabid fans of the A Song of Ice and Fire universe no longer have a bible to pore over while constructing their elaborate fan theories. Unless Martin starts putting out new books at an impossible (for him) rate, the show is definitely going to end first. Once, the book came first. Now, the TV show is the original text. To put it in Machiavellian terms, the balance of power has permanently shifted.”
Hold the Door: Game of Thrones and the New Frontier of Storytelling
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Syd Mead
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Leo and Diane Dillon, 1975
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A Jack Gaughan teaser poster for 1978′s Battlestar Galactica, based on Ralph McQuarrie production art.
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Keith Wilson’s concept art for Anglo-German series Star Maidens, via
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(Source: afuturelostintime)
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(Source: afuturelostintime)
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Fred Freeman
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A set for Space: 1999