Maybe it's because you're a lazy, whiny faggot, George.
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At this point I don’t think he can. He probably knows the major plot points which he told to HBO when they made the ending, but then they fucked it up because they didn’t have a template for the final seasons and rushed it all. Now he can’t do that or people will be pissed, even though most of it’s what he wanted to do.
He knows he’s damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t.
If the series finale being as fucked up its own ass as it was came down to a lack of reference material beyond whatever post-it notes he gave to D&D, that's on him. Even if he had taken as long to publish TWOW (which he chronically boasted included a lot of already-written chapters that he just couldn't fit into ADWD and thus definitely wouldn't take as long to come out) as he did to publish ADWD - five years after the fourth book, AFFC - then it should've been out by 2016-17.
FFS, even D&D delayed Season 8 by an entire year (2018), that was an extra year Martin had to get the next book out. At this point I have to credit them for at least finishing their story and then dropping out of public view, however shit their ending was, unlike Martin who doesn't even have sufficient shame to just STFU about the series he'll never finish and retreat to obscurity for his remaining days. But nope, he insists on inflicting more of his unfinished universe on the world and talking shit about his dwindling fans instead.
I think he probably did give them enough reference material, they’d just need more seasons to finish it and that wasn’t in the cards. I’m not saying that to defend him, it just logistically makes sense. They’d pay him whatever he wanted so it’s not like they couldn’t have had him step in more directly on the final seasons if they were having trouble.
Although I liked it more than I didn’t, I don’t personally think the Song of Ice and Fire series is as good as people make it out to be. It is good, but probably not to the level people hold it. As a TV series it was probably the most ambitious in trying to recreate a book series of that scope though when it comes to plot and character dynamics. They cut things but still did alright. The main thing he did was make a super dark Tolkien universe where everybody dies with plot complexity found in other genres.
At least they didn’t pull a Walking Dead where it never ends and you stop caring and everyone’s just wandering around in circles and you really just don’t care anymore.
"The TV show screwed up Martin's perfect vision" is fan cope.
The show ending IS the book ending. Bran becomes king, and all the retardation that implies.
Martin can't finish the story because he knows its a turd and the show tells us exactly how badly it will be received by fans. So what, he writes a new ending? With 2 million words of baggage, good fucking luck.
Any author who can't finish a story with that many pages is a bad author. PERIOD.
The obvious ending is Jon Snow becoming king of Westeros, as he is both Stark and Targaryen, it's literally his destiny.
However, doing that would refute the entire thesis of GRRM's series, that there is no inherent good, no destiny, no saviors, etc. He started the series with a faulty premise as a refutation of Tolkien and now he can't come to terms with the fact that that necessarily leads to a shitty conclusion
I can see the plot points having been the same but if handled differently working out fine. That SPOILERS maybe Bran the whole time was controlling the white walkers or something. There’s a lot you can do to make them work. Or like the dragon lady just flipping her shit at the end on a dime. With more time to make it work it could have, but it seemingly happened out of nowhere like she was Amber Heard all along.
Martin's real writing flaw is his suffocating nihilism in the name of 'realism.' The man expresses such misanthropy through his writing it's really disgusting to read. It reminds me of Nite Owl's speech to Ozymandias:
https://youtu.be/xyJ4Nt3FN0Y?t=103
"You haven't idealized mankind but you've deformed it. Mutilated it. That's your legacy."
I don't think there's any level of in-story justification for a protagonist's villain turn that would be accepted by any audience, because that's just not how people and stories work. There aren't enough words in the universe to reverse 6,000 pages of sympathizing with Daenerys. Can't be done. The alternative is to accept that everyone in the story is shit, they all worthless, and always have been (which is how Martin feels) but then what is even the point of any of it?
I do completely agree with your spot on analysis of Martin. He’s kind of a one trick pony when it comes to that. Sometimes I think it works. It is fairly excessive to the extent he does it though. And hackish after a while since the series is so damn long and it’s the same shtick endlessly.
I think the Witcher series did fantasy storytelling better in some regards that Martin was trying to capture. Most of the stories and lore are complex and nuanced and it’s not complete nihilism. Some things are really bad and tragic. Others are victories. Some are just fanciful.
If Martin had written it, just pick any direction of growth any character had and then kill them off in a way that negates it or has them flip.