(May 22, 2017 at 7:18 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: I have come to the conclusion that I can treat the books and the show as two separate mediums.
I am happy to see Weiss & Benioff's vision, and it has been wonderful, AFAIC. Last season was epic.
If GRRM ever gets off his fat ass and finishes ASOIAF, I'll be happy to see how it was really supposed to end.
I will also enjoy the debates about what is canon. I will probably argue both sides, depending on what kind of day I'm having.
I'm willing to place a bet, here and now, that he'll never finish the books once the TV show is complete. If they get halted before completion, all bets are off.
I'd be thrilled to be wrong, well worth a piddling $10, but I truly feel he has pretty much let the TV show take over. He'll likely release book 6 someday, or it'll be released in some form after he passes, but I highly doubt he'll ever finish the entire story in book form.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
