Five out of six episodes in the books. Thus far? Virtually every major character is both white and male. No gay shit. No girl boss shit. Positive portrayals of men and masculinity. Minimal or no millennial writing. The show appears to be unapologetically targeting the traditional male audience. It's a complete 180 from the last decade of feminized DEI trash.
How did this get approved??
More seriously: yes, this is undoubtedly the "reconciliation" phase of the leftist takeover. We're expected to come crawling back to Hollywood because they've been magnanimous enough to offer us a few scraps of quality targeted entertainment.
But look at the bright side: imagine how miserable these woke executives and producers must have been reading scripts and watching dailies that featured almost no women, minorities, or gays lol
Forgot to add: the show is universally beloved online. Gee, I wonder why...
That is a pleasant surprise. I want to get the books. I do have a bit of nerd pettiness and really don’t want to support GRRM since he refuses to finish Ice and Fire
Dunk & Egg is a series of 3 self-contained short stories. They released a book that contains all 3. They're actually good, and I would recommend them.
Apparently, GRRM said that he had ideas for 10 more novellas, but those will probably never see the light of day, because he's a fat, lazy communist.
And he has the nerve to criticize Tolkien
Dance of Dragons is at least finished so when House of the Dragon resumes it can at least work towards a known end point. Not that the audience will enjoy it because it ends with a fan favourite being gruesomely eaten alive by a dragon, although whether they go full 6 bites or just a single chomp remains to be seen.
Amusingly, House of the Dragon still has problems because the showrunner is rejecting Martin's notes. The second season had some really saggy subplots as a result. Not really sure why he would do that.
That's the ASoIaF series, though. Dunk & Egg are stories that happen roughly 80 years before that. Although I really enjoyed ASoIaF when I read the 5 books 15 years ago, the fact that GRRM will never finish the series means that I wouldn't recommend them to people just discovering the franchise, unless they were massive fans of the tv series for some odd reason. The Dunk & Egg novellas are self-contained enough that you don't need to read any other books by GRRM to enjoy them.
The story of Dunk and Egg isn't fully written, that's the point. While their eventually demise is known, there are still meant to be several more stories GRRM claims he will start before getting to Summerhall.