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.
It's just a conspiracy theory, but some people say GRRM didn't even write the books, his assistant who later quit did. Again, conspiracy theory, mostly unfounded, I'm certainly not claiming that, but it would explain some things. He might actually be incapable of writing the last book, and is just wasting time.
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.
It's just a conspiracy theory, but some people say GRRM didn't even write the books, his assistant who later quit did. Again, conspiracy theory, mostly unfounded, I'm certainly not claiming that, but it would explain some things. He might actually be incapable of writing the last book, and is just wasting time.