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What if GRRM himself (since he already had television experience prior to the airing of GoT) and not Benioff and Weiss (that, according to this Cracked article, didn't know what the hell they were doing) was put in charge of Game of Thrones? Would the series have become as popular, and would it have avoided seasonal rot? The article's authors suggest that the fantasy element of the series would've been far more prevalent and the sex and violence content reduced by a lot - those episodes directed by GRRM were comparatively light on it, after all - but is that what would've happened?