Maybe it's because you're a lazy, whiny faggot, George.
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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.