I was listening to the Critical Drinker's after hours stream and they were talking about Winds of Winter due to the fact that GRRM recently released something Westeros related that wasn't WOW along with his many projects with HBO. They all pretty much agreed that it is highly doubtful it will ever be released, at least while he is alive.
Someone in the comments put out the whole "he owes you nothing" argument and that fans are entitled, but he did say GRRM made a mistake in constantly promising that he would end the series.
What do y'all think? I understand that he owes me nothing and I read the books between season 5 and 6 so I haven't been waiting since the 90s, but I would respect him more if he just said that he didn't want to finish and hire someone to finish. I will say now that whenever someone recommends a book series to me the first thing I ask is if the series is completed or not. I also remember someone saying that now people will be less willing to give a new author a chance if he has a multi book series.
I personally believe that once he dies (assuming he never releases the books) that his publisher will take what he had written and publish that or find someone to make it a coherent story. GOT could've been an epic show from start to finish had he finished the source material and even if he does release the last two the interest will be far less than what it could've been.
I’ve read them. I was asking if he had. Sorry for the confusion. I enjoyed them but figured Amazon wouldn’t do a good job.
Nobody was ever going to do a good job with a series that's 14 books plus additional material to explain side plots. There's just too much material there and even with the superfluous fluff removed it would still be far too much material to fit into a tv show without severely crippling core aspects of it.
Remember this isn't even the first live action adaptation, there was a one off pilot with Billy Zane likely made to retain the rights for the series and for as bad as that was it will still better than the disaster that is the Amazon series, Woke of Time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZOCCEuROPk
And I heard that the showrunner changed some things Rand did to the women. Clearly it’s obvious why. One of the first thing he said was something about lgbt representation so I could tell his priorities
Yeah he gave one of the book climaxes to 2 of the women instead. Rand is meant to be a literal returned/reborn messiah several times over.
He's not just the Dragon Reborn, he's the Car'A'Carn/Chief of Chiefs to the Aiel, the Coramoor to the Sea Folk, as well as one of the two most powerful channelers that exists along with his opposite despite Rahvin being ranked the same as both.
Yet they gave what was meant to be a literal Deus ex Machina curbstomp by an OP/supreme caster to multiple characters which actually diminishes the act because it takes 2 women in the show to do what 1 man did in the books.
Did the showrunner try to justify his changes? Or is it the usual woke excuses about representation