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George R.R. Martin Feels Strikes “Will Be Long And Bitter”, Says His HBO Deal “Was Suspended” & Gives Update On ‘House Of The Dragon’ Season 2

George R.R. Martin is giving updates on all the projects he’s involved in and weighed in on the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. In his latest blog entry, Martin says that the WGA strike “is …

mochi ,

Maybe he can use this time to finish writing the Game of Thrones series. Fucking loser.

Xero ,
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It’s been ten years since I gave up on ever reading the last books in that series.

GoodKingElliot ,
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I joined the WGA in 1986 and have been through several strikes with them. We made gains in all of them, but some issues are more important than others… and this year’s strike is the most important of my lifetime.

–GRRM

Ixsh ,

The first thought that runs through my mind anytime I see George RR Martin’s name in a headline is “Shit, he died!”.

And I don’t know if I’ll even be disappointed or not, which is sad, since it seems he’s never going to finish his books anyway. Unless he’s pulling the ultimate troll and already has the entire series finished, but is refusing to release it until his death.

evatronic ,

I’m a huge Wheel of Time fan. If you’re not, or for those that aren’t, Robert Jordan, the author, died before he could finish the series. He had some rough notes, a few important scenes written out, but the man was diagnosed with a terminal disease. Despite best efforts, he didn’t make it to the finish line.

The last three books were written, with the blessing and cooperation of Jordan’s widow and estate, by Brandon Sanderson.

Jordan’s death was a huge blow to the story. We didn’t know, really, what was going to happen. The story and world were epic, and we knew Jordan had a plan, and that there were “notes”, but no one save a handful of people, knew more.

When Sanderson stepped in to finish the series, there was an obvious shift in how the story was written. He is, after all, a different author. But he did an absolute amazing job. If there’s one thing Sanderson is good at it’s the “Sanderlanche”, where the last chunk of the book is full of insane, crazy, over-the-top exciting things happening one after another. It’s no secret that the entire series is building up to “The Last Battle”, and there is a (cough, 200-page-long) chapter in the last book titled “The Last Battle” and it is, I shit you not, non-stop action, revelation, emotion, and more happening in rapid fire.

Sanderson took the build-up from 14 books and slammed it all down at once in a “…holy shit” moment. He couldn’t have done what he did (well, after reading Stormlight Archive so far… maybe he could’ve) without Jordan laying the groundwork.

What I’m trying to say: If GRR Martin has built a world that works, even if he dies, they’ll find someone to finish it and leave us with a complete story. And if we’re lucky, it’ll be someone like Sanderson.

LogarithmicCamel ,

GRRM has already said that if he dies, he doesn’t want another author to finish his series. So no, this is not going to happen.

superkret ,

He’s been on a writer’s strike for the past 12 years.

SatanicNotMessianic ,

I remember having the nagging feeling that GRRM had painted himself into a corner while reading the series. I took to the series knowing nothing about him or the books, and I was blown away when the character I expected to be the main hero of the series was brutally killed off. Then it happened again. And again.

On the other hand, he continued to introduce entirely new, well fleshed out characters and plot lines, even multiple books in. I started to feel like the story was getting away from him somewhere around the third book. He had a lot of great ideas that should probably have become series in their own rights, but which he has been trying to weave together into a coherent narrative.

There’s an old saying along the lines of “fiction is different from history, because fiction has to make sense.” It goes to the point about how, if you show a gun on the table in the first act, it has to be used by the final act.

I still hate Season 8 with the heat of a thousand suns. I cannot think of another franchise whose ending left me feeling not just disappointed but actually resentful. I thought Lost was okay. I thought Avengers reached the “let’s just wrap this up” stage. I always thought Stephen King, at least through mid-career, wrote fantastic books with crap endings even those O still love his work. I don’t think that the GoT team at HBO was set up for success. I do think they crapped all over the franchise - I have not rewatched a single episode since it ended - but it’s obvious that the fault also lies with GRRM for simply not knowing what happens next.

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