Not really a big surprise. But still, a sobering reminder of the current state of the book series.
The show ended is such a fucking stupid way, it left a sour taste is my mouth, and I felt I wasted years being so invested in such a dogshit ending. Fuck GRRM and fuck D&D for both killing such an amazing story with such a fucking stupid ending.
I’m reading on Reddit even, that most of the internet refuse to rewatch that show becuase of how dumb it ends. No other show has left the zeitgeist so quickly
most of the internet refuse to rewatch that show becuase of how dumb it ends.
I’m in this boat. I tried to rewatch it and I got to the second season before I started to remember all the dumb, stupid, and uncaring endings for the characters. I couldn’t finish it. I would just be reminded on how much they dropped the ball. I bought shirts, bottles of liquor, and who knows how much more Game of Thrones swag. Now I can’t even have a rewatch event or nothing.
There was even a few YouTubers that I got into because of Game of Thrones. That show has burned so many fans goodwill by rushing to finish the show, so d&d could get on Star Wars. It makes me happy that Disney cancelled their project since they messed up Game of Thrones so much.
Not sure if the website changed its headline but linked in this article is a link to https://www.gamesradar.com/george-r-r-martin-game-of-thrones-winds-of-winter-update/ from Nov 2023 when he first said this.
So we’ve know this for the better part of a year. His more recent interview from a few weeks ago is that he wishes he was finished. Specifically that he could have written it all first, then publish each book.
(Although if I recall originally the story was meant to be just three books, but as he wrote it expanded to eventually become the current/planned seven. Although the length of these books has increased so what is “a book” really?)
This is one of those times that you acknowledge you’re out of gas, and hand off the writing to a team of younger, competent, creatives. Sweeten the pot by offering proportional revenue-share.
It’s been done before.
I gave up on ASOIAF a long time ago. Even if he finishes WoW by accident, we won’t get a ADoS. At least not from him.
So I adjusted my hopes accordingly. Fire and Blood part 2 would be nice. Or one more Dunk and Egg story.
He loves writing worlds more than characters.
The reason got sucked aside from dnd is he wrote himself in a corner. “Mereneese knot” forget where I heard that describes this issue of getting all the characters together and across the sea in a way that made sense.
It couldn’t, then all the hype and everything else and fuck all I wouldn’t want to write it either.
He captured lightning in a bottle for a short period then it grew beyond control.
Good article on the Meereenese Knot: https://meereeneseblot.wordpress.com/2013/09/27/untangling-the-meereenese-knot-part-i-who-poisoned-the-locusts/