First 50 episodes of pure gold turned to 23 episodes of pure ****.
Help us Obi Wan GRRM, you're our only hope.
Yes, because I'm sure the books will end much differently...
Although the road to getting there will hopefully be better? I have less faith every year that passes though. He's got even more of a mess to wrangle than the showrunners did.
I didn't think the overall ending was that bad, considering where they had taken the story.
I think the Iron Throne being destroyed is a logical ending for the books, but in the sense that the concept of a unified Westeros becomes obsolete, not just the actual throne. When Tyrion proposed that they choose their own ruler, I thought Sansa's decision would make more sense for all of them, with the Seven Kingdoms becoming separate and independent once more. The Targaryen dynasty is officially dead and gone, and Westeros goes back to how it was before Aegon conquered them.
I don't have any faith in GRRM finishing the book, he's a clown on twitter
He likes the world he built but I don't think he cares very much for his characters. I think he finds them boring after thinking about them for so long and that's why he's worked on other projects within that world he built. That's his prerogative of course. I would present the idea that when he introduced that massive amount of characters in Feast and Dance, it was because he was having a hard time writing the book without creating those new characters and not working on developing the original ones he no longer cared for.
He did. Years ago he slandered Robert jordan for letting someone finish wheel of time after he died.
He proclaimed when his fat ASS has a heart attack nobody can play in his sandbox and nobody will get to know what happened.
I'm sadly not kidding. Robert jordan was the man and had one of the greatest series ever and made sure the author finishing his work after he died knew what to do. Grrm was good for 3 books then phoned it in for a paycheck and stopped trying years ago
I kind of buy the idea that Blood Raven legit orchestrated everything to lead to the outcome of Bran becoming king.
It seems that way to me.
Is he the Great Other and or the Lord of Light?
I agree, I think the end result will be very similar but the way to get there will be better.Yes, because I'm sure the books will end much differently...
Although the road to getting there will hopefully be better? I have less faith every year that passes though. He's got even more of a mess to wrangle than the showrunners did.
Ignoring for a moment that I don't think the books will ever be completed, I'm unconvinced that the story will actually be better in the books. I expect the ending to be very similar, maybe a few character swaps for the outcomes but the same outcomes essentially, but a far more detailed and fleshed out journey to get there. The issue is that based on the last two books largely being a slog, I don't have high hopes that the more detailed journey will really be high quality compared to the rushed journey we got in the show.
I totally agree. I will be very surprised if they ending departs too much from the show. I am curious how they handle the Jon/Dany relationship in the book, especially with the presence of Aegon. I saw someone suggest that he and not Cersei becomes the subject of Dany's ire but the outcome is the same (Dany's sacks King's Landing and Jon kills her to prevent a reign of terror).