The Game of Thrones

[pat]

Just now, Starkiller said:

It’s an entertainment industry. Just be entertaining. 
 

I honestly think a new series can be better than the original movies. I’m all for that. If they can pull it off, that is. 

there is no meat left on the bones of the game of potters hairy throne,

[NashvilleNinja]

2 hours ago, pat said:

there is no meat left on the bones of the game of potters hairy throne,

 

Game of Potter's Hairy Throne?

 

Now that sounds like a series worth a watch. 

[Jamalisms]

One of the recurring characters / a frequently referenced person in the Dunk and egg series is the guy who ended up in the tree and taught Bran. It's kind of interesting to see who he was before that.

 

Dunk and egg is far from finished and it's one of the projects the author said he was going to stop writing until he finished the main series. So I imagine he'll either start writing it again or it's yet another thing that will pass the books and we'll get a finish on screen instead of / before it being written.

 

I like Dunk and egg and it'll be interesting to see how they adapt it because it's short stories and far less in-depth and more of a narrow focus on just a few characters. I am imagine they will be creating stuff to add to it to lense a sense of depth and place in the world. 

 

In terms of the story (non spoiler) there's a certain trouble / uncertainty in the Targaryen dynasty and Dunk and Egg stumble into and around those troubles, impacting things a good bit.

[9 Nines]

Game of Thrones was just medieval version of Batman.  Complete rip-off. 

[NashvilleNinja]

No, 9s... that was Twilight. And that was a complete rip off. 

 

 

See? ^

Edited April 15 by NashvilleNinja

[Starkiller]

https://www.ign.com/articles/george-rr-martin-has-written-1100-pages-of-the-winds-of-winter-the-same-number-as-last-year
 

A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin has said he's written 1,100 pages of next book The Winds of Winter, the same amount he'd written as of December 2022, while also revealing there are eight other Game of Thrones spin-off shows in addition to House of the Dragon.

  

"I have like 1,100 pages written but I still have hundreds more pages to go. It's a big mother of a book for whatever reason. Maybe I should've started writing smaller books when I began this but it's tough. That's the main thing that dominates most of my working life."

 

Martin said on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in December 2022 he had "like 1,100, 1,200 pages" done, with 400 or 500 to go before The Winds of Winter was complete. Almost a year on, the author seemingly still has the same amount of work to be done.

[NashvilleNinja]

12 hours ago, Starkiller said:

https://www.ign.com/articles/george-rr-martin-has-written-1100-pages-of-the-winds-of-winter-the-same-number-as-last-year
 

A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin has said he's written 1,100 pages of next book The Winds of Winter, the same amount he'd written as of December 2022, while also revealing there are eight other Game of Thrones spin-off shows in addition to House of the Dragon.

  

"I have like 1,100 pages written but I still have hundreds more pages to go. It's a big mother of a book for whatever reason. Maybe I should've started writing smaller books when I began this but it's tough. That's the main thing that dominates most of my working life."

 

Martin said on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in December 2022 he had "like 1,100, 1,200 pages" done, with 400 or 500 to go before The Winds of Winter was complete. Almost a year on, the author seemingly still has the same amount of work to be done.

 

 

 

Lazy fucker. And that's not even the last book... 

 

Spin-offs, schmin-offs. I wonder just how much of his ending was in the show's ending and if all this extra time was him taking shit out that didn't go over well with audiences. I mean didn't Benioff and Weiss supposedly guess how the whole thing ends back when they were first getting together on making the show? Bran winding up on the throne seems like something GRRM would do, although maybe the pathway there was different.

Also, what's up with the Jon Snow series? Nothing has been even remotely hinted at about it.

[Starkiller]

1 hour ago, NashvilleNinja said:

 

 

 

Lazy fucker. And that's not even the last book... 

 

Spin-offs, schmin-offs. I wonder just how much of his ending was in the show's ending and if all this extra time was him taking shit out that didn't go over well with audiences. I mean didn't Benioff and Weiss supposedly guess how the whole thing ends back when they were first getting together on making the show? Bran winding up on the throne seems like something GRRM would do, although maybe the pathway there was different.

Also, what's up with the Jon Snow series? Nothing has been even remotely hinted at about it.

I think he just wrote himself into a corner and can’t figure out a satisfying fix. In the books the characters were all younger and he originally had planned a 5 year jump in the books. Then he had to scrap that and now it’s a problem. 

[Jamalisms]

He largely wrote through the necessary elements of the 5 year gap in books 4 & 5 but I think you could still be right about writing himself into a corner. When you create a lot of moving parts but have an end destination, getting all those parts to that end destination without completely ruining the vibe of realism ... that's a tall task.

 

He can also say what he wants about how this book takes a majority of his time, as he did just recently, and you can look through past interviews and such to see that he could have been working and revising and rewriting and doing a lot of stuff while keeping the same total pages figure ... But there's simply no getting around the fact that he is distracted and not focused. Maybe he thinks that he's focused enough but the results clearly show it's not true and he has sooooo many side projects he's involved in.

 

I suspect we'll get the next book at some point, unless he dies in the next few years, but my opinion is that there's next to no chance we get the final book and I think that's an ultimate failure on his part, which is the defining element of him as a writer as far as I'm concerned.

[NashvilleNinja]

1 hour ago, Jamalisms said:

He largely wrote through the necessary elements of the 5 year gap in books 4 & 5 but I think you could still be right about writing himself into a corner. When you create a lot of moving parts but have an end destination, getting all those parts to that end destination without completely ruining the vibe of realism ... that's a tall task.

 

He can also say what he wants about how this book takes a majority of his time, as he did just recently, and you can look through past interviews and such to see that he could have been working and revising and rewriting and doing a lot of stuff while keeping the same total pages figure ... But there's simply no getting around the fact that he is distracted and not focused. Maybe he thinks that he's focused enough but the results clearly show it's not true and he has sooooo many side projects he's involved in.

 

I suspect we'll get the next book at some point, unless he dies in the next few years, but my opinion is that there's next to no chance we get the final book and I think that's an ultimate failure on his part, which is the defining element of him as a writer as far as I'm concerned.

 

Bullshit. You know his defining element is always going to be those ravens with their jetpacks.

[Starkiller]

7 hours ago, Jamalisms said:

I suspect we'll get the next book at some point, unless he dies in the next few years, but my opinion is that there's next to no chance we get the final book and I think that's an ultimate failure on his part, which is the defining element of him as a writer as far as I'm concerned.

The final book might actually be easier to get done than this next one. If missing the 5 year gap is the problem then the next book presumably would clear most of that hurdle. If so then he could get to the ending more easily.

 

Also, he clearly already knew how the series ends. The problem was in how the middle of it unfolds. It should get easier to do the end since it’s more clearly define in his head and he doesn’t have to figure out how the story proceeds anymore.