Thanks. I know GRRM approved the race change but he didn’t have the guts to insist it stay true to the book. I’m not surprised by this. HBO has been this way for a number of years. I used to check out every new HBO show but not anymore. I hope this fails. GRRM screws then by being to lazy to finish his series and they keep rewarding him.
The racebending is almost as insulting as the attempt to portray the Dance of the Dragons as some kind of anti-patriarchal story, IMHO. When the plotline Martin actually wrote boils down to the two women at its core, Alicent Hightower and Rhaenyra Targaryen, being two power-hungry bitches who loathed each other, and it ends (as GoT the show itself did) in a resounding endorsement of The Patriarchy™ because it turns out that if you give women so much as a sniff at real power, they really will burn everything down for little to no reason.
Re: Fire and Blood. I wouldn't know, I've committed to not buying any more of the obese bastard's work after he made it clear that he was never going to finish the main series. What I posted above is what I got out of The World of Ice & Fire, his poor copy of the Silmarillion which I bought back in 2014 when the show was at its peak and there was still hope for an ending to the core series. From what I've heard Fire and Blood basically just explores some of the material first introduced in TWOIAF (chiefly Daemon Targaryen's earlier adventures and the Dance) in greater detail anyway - hardly worth the price tag even if I were still interested.
Inb4 the try to make both of those two sympathetic in some way or blame their actions on various male characters like Matt Smith and others despite the meme that follows of denying women agency for their actions.
Gotcha. Yea I decided not to support any of the shows or his books. Now if by some miracle winds of winter is released I’ll buy it. I wanted to get Dunk and Egg but maybe I’ll find it second hand.
Don’t know why I didn’t think of this until just now, but we had a “pandemic” that forced most old people to lockdown with nothing to do for almost two years. Can you imagine a better time for someone like GRRM to focus on and finish his books? If he didn’t do it then, he’s never doing it.
Thanks. I know GRRM approved the race change but he didn’t have the guts to insist it stay true to the book. I’m not surprised by this. HBO has been this way for a number of years. I used to check out every new HBO show but not anymore. I hope this fails. GRRM screws then by being to lazy to finish his series and they keep rewarding him.
Was Fire and Blood any good?
The racebending is almost as insulting as the attempt to portray the Dance of the Dragons as some kind of anti-patriarchal story, IMHO. When the plotline Martin actually wrote boils down to the two women at its core, Alicent Hightower and Rhaenyra Targaryen, being two power-hungry bitches who loathed each other, and it ends (as GoT the show itself did) in a resounding endorsement of The Patriarchy™ because it turns out that if you give women so much as a sniff at real power, they really will burn everything down for little to no reason.
Re: Fire and Blood. I wouldn't know, I've committed to not buying any more of the obese bastard's work after he made it clear that he was never going to finish the main series. What I posted above is what I got out of The World of Ice & Fire, his poor copy of the Silmarillion which I bought back in 2014 when the show was at its peak and there was still hope for an ending to the core series. From what I've heard Fire and Blood basically just explores some of the material first introduced in TWOIAF (chiefly Daemon Targaryen's earlier adventures and the Dance) in greater detail anyway - hardly worth the price tag even if I were still interested.
Inb4 the try to make both of those two sympathetic in some way or blame their actions on various male characters like Matt Smith and others despite the meme that follows of denying women agency for their actions.
Gotcha. Yea I decided not to support any of the shows or his books. Now if by some miracle winds of winter is released I’ll buy it. I wanted to get Dunk and Egg but maybe I’ll find it second hand.
Don’t know why I didn’t think of this until just now, but we had a “pandemic” that forced most old people to lockdown with nothing to do for almost two years. Can you imagine a better time for someone like GRRM to focus on and finish his books? If he didn’t do it then, he’s never doing it.
Given how GRRM reacted to the puppies, his actions here both make perfect sense and are 100% predictable.
And you would think the way the Twitter mob went after him when he was MC of that one awards show that he would open his eyes