'Shindig'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
ha! I do not have GRMM in my closet. Yeah, I am fascinated by the passion of some people regarding GOT, but perhaps I would identify with it if I were a fan of the books.
What would I have done if JK Rowling hadn't finished HP series for some reason?
The recent Vanity Fair cover story on Game Of Thrones addressed the issue.
The showrunners have made it explicit that (a) it won't go past 7 (mayyyyybeee 8) seasons; and (b) Martin has given then the outline for every character's story and they will simply write out the series if he's late with the books. Mainly because their child actors will age out, and nobody wants Arya Mark 2.
eta: The actor who plans Bran is 14 now and getting HUGE. Which is particularly problematic for his character as Hodor has to lug him about.
The showrunners have made it explicit that (a) it won't go past 7 (mayyyyybeee 8) seasons
I've read the same thing, and I have no earthly idea how it's going to be possible since they've already split book 3 into two seasons. It's not like the books are getting any shorter.
(Maybe they've already been told that book 7 has only 3 characters in it because everyone else is dead, and are planning to condense that into the 2-hour finale.)
(Maybe they've already been told that book 7 has only 3 characters in it because everyone else is dead, and are planning to condense that into the 2-hour finale.)
I think they're going to cull the narrative and find throughlines for all the major characters. In short, I think they'll start deviating from the books to avoid the sprawl you get in books 4 and 5.
I expect we won't be going to Dorne.
Which I think is too bad. I am fascinated by dorne.
I'd be up for a Sand Snakes spinoff.
I was bored by most of those chapters, but I expect I will be more invested during my re-read.
Mmm, Sand Snakes are good times. I love Dorne.
I think the (well founded) concern WRT GRRM finishing the series is that he is NOT a speedy writer, he started writing the series in 1991 and it is very far from finished. And keeps expanding with seemingly every passing month. Interesting tidbit: one of my friend picked up a first edition of GoT on his recent travels. The jacket blurb talks about his writing the second follow up book "Dance with Dragon." Dear me, he sort of injected how many pages of narrative btwn publishing GoT and DwD? The world is so very large and just keeps expanding...it has rather run away without him. I just hope someone finishes is before *I* die.
As for spin offs...well I should hope he wouldn't be investing any time in writing those! Though I also think a full Sand Snakes show would be very worthy of HBO's attention. Or Inside the Maesters' Training program. Or both.