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RE: Game of Thrones Season 7 Discussion [SPOILERS WITHIN]
May 22, 2017 at 6:29 pm
(May 22, 2017 at 5:34 pm)Aegon Wrote: I'm trying to get hyped but honestly it's getting difficult. I've really disliked the last two seasons and it kills me that I have to see the series ended by the show instead if the novels. But I've accepted that GRRM won't ever finish them.
Wow, Drogon looks insane.
This is me as well.
I'm honestly just trying to be glad that we will get an ending at all. It was entirely possible GRRM would have just stopped at book, even without the TV show. He seems to have sort of lost interest in his own story.
It isn't identical, but it reminds me of Wheel of Time. That author was dying, and prepared everything so someone could finish the books after he passed, so even though I feel the final books were not what they should have been, I am ultimately grateful I got to read them at all.
This could be a LOT worse for fans.
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RE: Game of Thrones Season 7 Discussion [SPOILERS WITHIN]
May 22, 2017 at 7:11 pm
Sometimes you have to follow a story's conclusion in the media that's offered. I've liked it from the start after assuming from the trailers leading up to season one that I wouldn't. After the first season I finished all the books which I enjoyed thoroughly but having started with the television series I really like it too. It would be nice if he would just auction off the rights to the spinoffs to someone else to flesh out but he seems more determined to over see how they turn out than he does the main story line now. Maybe his main loyalty now is to the world/universe of which GoT is but a slice. No matter how GoT ends, I doubt if I'll be entirely satisfied.
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RE: Game of Thrones Season 7 Discussion [SPOILERS WITHIN]
May 22, 2017 at 7:14 pm
I read all the books, I think, except the last one.
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RE: Game of Thrones Season 7 Discussion [SPOILERS WITHIN]
May 22, 2017 at 7:18 pm
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.
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May 22, 2017 at 7:25 pm
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I've never read the books, but if I did and found them conflicting with the show, I'll reconcile it by imagining the books to be the "true", original account of events and the show to be the legend, passed down through word of mouth, changing ever so slowly with each iteration.
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May 22, 2017 at 7:25 pm
Also HNNNNNG GET HYPE
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RE: Game of Thrones Season 7 Discussion [SPOILERS WITHIN]
May 22, 2017 at 9:50 pm
^^The proper response
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RE: Game of Thrones Season 7 Discussion [SPOILERS WITHIN]
May 23, 2017 at 1:12 am
(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.
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RE: Game of Thrones Season 7 Discussion [SPOILERS WITHIN]
May 23, 2017 at 1:14 am
(May 23, 2017 at 1:12 am)Aroura Wrote: (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. I fully agree. I think he has told Weiss & Benioff the ending, and we will see something close to that.
I think we'll definitely see Winds of Winter, but not book 7.
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RE: Game of Thrones Season 7 Discussion [SPOILERS WITHIN]
May 23, 2017 at 5:28 am
You all stop that!
Books 6 and 7 are almost ready. 6 is on the press and 7 is undergoing some finishing touches.... so says I and I don't want to hear anything that contradicts this!
Concerning season 7, it's taking too damn long. But it will come and I hope it's every bit as epic as those stills suggest.
And I want to see dragons vs white walkers!! I want I want I want!
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