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The Official Game of Thrones [A Song of Ice and Fire] Thread (includes spoilers)

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ARE YOU GUYS GETTING SUPER PUMPED FOR THE NEARING OF THE RELEASE OF WHATEVER THIS TARGARYEN BOOK IS?!?!?!?!

He is working other books instead? I can sorry if understand he is under enormous pressure, but for them to finish the show, he had to know how it ends already and have some outline and maybe he throws a few twists in different from the show.

I'd say he was lazy, but maybe he figured he could never beat the show anyway. Let them finish and he can just fill in the gaps.

Reading the books right now, so I am actually getting annoyed that there won't be anything else to read soon.
 
I gave up any hope of reading TWOW long ago. Life's better this way.
 
The newest theory is that Stannis survived and will actually lead the Golden Company to Westeros as he hired them prior to his attack on Winterfell.

I think it is very hard to understand why we didn't see Brienne kill Stannis. When have they shied away from the blood and gore? I guess I could understand not wanting to show Brienne sort of be barbaric and kill a defenseless man when she is one of the very few honorable characters, but it just seemed strange at the time, and with the way they handled Jon Snow's death, I can't imagine it wasn't meaningful.

I don't think it unlikely at all that Stannis is still alive, and if he were to join Jon's cause, it could lead to fulfillment of the prophecy of seeing Stannis be a major reason for Jon's victory "standing on the wall" or whatever that vision is.
 
Stannis is definitely dead. They killed (spoiler just in case)
the Blackfish
off screen too.
 
The way it was shot, it just made more sense for them not to show a guy getting decapitated and blood spurting everywhere. Sometimes, hard to believe I know, a bunch of blood and gore ruins a dramatic moment.

Stannis is toast. Cooked. Dead. In the show, at least.
 
The way it was shot, it just made more sense for them not to show a guy getting decapitated and blood spurting everywhere. Sometimes, hard to believe I know, a bunch of blood and gore ruins a dramatic moment.

Stannis is toast. Cooked. Dead. In the show, at least.

Yup. It was just a stylistic choice to not show it.
 
Damn, we're finally getting a prequel pilot. I really like this approach:

“Taking place thousands of years before the events of Game of Thrones, the series chronicles the world’s descent from the golden Age of Heroes into its darkest hour. And only one thing is for sure: from the horrifying secrets of Westeros’s history to the true origin of the white walkers, the mysteries of the East, to the Starks of legend … it’s not the story we think we know.”

http://ew.com/tv/2018/06/08/game-thrones-prequel-jane-goldman/
 
Damn, we're finally getting a prequel pilot. I really like this approach:

“Taking place thousands of years before the events of Game of Thrones, the series chronicles the world’s descent from the golden Age of Heroes into its darkest hour. And only one thing is for sure: from the horrifying secrets of Westeros’s history to the true origin of the white walkers, the mysteries of the East, to the Starks of legend … it’s not the story we think we know.”

http://ew.com/tv/2018/06/08/game-thrones-prequel-jane-goldman/

That's actually a pretty interesting story to tell since we know so little of it. It's not like Robert's Rebellion where basically the entire war is laid out for us.
 
That's actually a pretty interesting story to tell since we know so little of it. It's not like Robert's Rebellion where basically the entire war is laid out for us.

I agree. And it looks like there will be heavy involvement from George. On one hand, that's great. On the other, just further solidifies that he's never getting close to finishing ASOIAF.
 
I agree. And it looks like there will be heavy involvement from George. On one hand, that's great. On the other, just further solidifies that he's never getting close to finishing ASOIAF.

Yeah, he just seems like he's lost all motivation to finish the series. Sad, but what can you do? Just sucks that quite possibly the best fantasy series ever probably won't get finished because the author's a lazy POS.
 
Yeah, he just seems like he's lost all motivation to finish the series. Sad, but what can you do? Just sucks that quite possibly the best fantasy series ever probably won't get finished because the author's a lazy POS.

I really don't think it's him being lazy. He works on a lot of other stuff, right? He writes multiple books and works on these shows. So he works.

It's just he doesn't want to work on this, and imo its because he's not clear on how to write himself out of these choke points and bring the story back together.

And I know I've said this before, but its why I don't kill the show for combining storylines, even if it cheapens the story a little or forces things that don't make sense (like having Sansa marry Ramsay). Like at this point, I'm not sure if George even knows what in the world he's going to do with Sansa. And I think that's the case for a lot of characters who are off doing things no one cares about.
 
It's just he doesn't want to work on this, and imo its because he's not clear on how to write himself out of these choke points and bring the story back together.

That was a problem that was evident when he finished Storm of Swords. His couldn't make his plan to skip ahead five years in the story work, which resulted in the creating of unnecessary subplots to try to get the Westeros/Essos timelines to work. And that screwed him.
 
That was a problem that was evident when he finished Storm of Swords. His couldn't make his plan to skip ahead five years in the story work, which resulted in the creating of unnecessary subplots to try to get the Westeros/Essos timelines to work. And that screwed him.

Just should have written in a magic potion/spell that made the Dragons grow 5x as fast as normal. Just Hollywood One Line it and move on.
 
Looks like George painted himself into a corner with a death, and can't figure out a way to fix it. This is a clip from his friend Diana Gabaldon talking about it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/8rumol/spoiler_main_diana_gabaldon_author_of_outlander/

From the sound of it, it's probably a death in Winds, not one we've seen already.

I can't imagine it's Jon Snow, because clearly George had an idea of where he's going with that. I can't think of anyone else who has died thus far that would pose that much of a difficulty to write around. No one truly important has died in a while unless you count Jon, and we all knew he wasn't going to stay dead.
 

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