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.
I might like the Dunk and Egg stories more than aSoIaF.
Unrelated, has anyone else read Audrey Niffeneger's _The Night Bookmobile?_. It's a short story and I'm utterly in love. She and Erin Morgenstern should hang out. And tape all their conversations. But like with many of her other works, I'm torn between lauding it as a praise of blissful readership or frowning upon it as a cautionary tale. I suppose it's really somewhere in btween, but i'm still in that post-reading haze where my thoughts haven't had time to settle and congeal.