Well, pick your name. I only said Brandon Sanderson because he finished Wheel of Time and because it was funny. But the series is too big and too profitable to go unfinished if Martin dies, so somebody will be finishing it, even if Martin is adamant that he doesn't want anyone continuing his work after he's gone
No, its a pretty dumb take. Like most autistic people, Preston is amazing at finding and analyzing minute details in the books, but terrible at recognizing themes.
This makes sense. IIRC, Preston only got into ASOIAF through the TV show like in 2012 or something.
He has publicly stated multiple times (because this meme of him finishing the books keeps coming up in interviews) that he doesn't feel comfortable writing what he'd have to write for it to fit GRRM's universe and he will refuse if Random House ever approaches him about finishing them.
Would be pretty funny if they go with some fanfiction floating around on the net. After all, GoT already has smut in it canonically.
There are lists of unanswered book and show questions that are endless. Some of them are literally central premises and mysteries of the entire series. Like the nature of the Others and their mythology. All of the basic plot questions like "who will be king at the end of the series?" were given hilarious unsatisfactory answers like Bran.
Once the franchise is rebooted in both books and television they will attempt to clean up GRRM's mess and answer stuff about the Others and all the other mysteries that were left unresolved or obnoxiously ambiguous. They are just waiting until he drops dead to make sense of his sloppy mess. His 'gardener technique' of making a story is one of the biggest failures in writing of all time.
I seem to remember Martin saying the reason for the seasons being screwed up would be explained. Was that ever explained in the books or show? I stopped reading the books after AFFC and never watched the show beyond bits and pieces.
Sounds like Mexico to be honest.
I put the dumber plot points in the later seasons to D&D reading GRRM's notes on what the plan is, wondering "How the fuck do we put this on the screen? Are we really going to extend the show another four seasons to show fAegon and JonConn and Victarion and Arianne and Stoneheart and Marwyn when their stories go absolutely nowhere and end like a wet fart? I get the Fisher King reference but Bran has little build up and been in three chapters since ASOS was published in 2000, will it work? Why do Cersei and Jaime end up dying together when their stories have dragged them apart? What's the point of Dorne? Does it really matter that the Three Eyed
Neither does GRRM. So we're all on the same page.
It's clearly based on Bran the Blessed in Welsh mythology. Bran literally means 'crow'. Bran is also the first main POV in the book series after the prologue where the Others kill two Night's Watch members and the third flees (a chapter that had a bunch of random changes for the HBO show, a sign that the adaptation would not be great in the long run).
Almost nothing in the books or shows reveals any long term vision or planning. GRRM has no idea anymore if he ever had one in the first place. And not even the gigantic writing teams at HBO could clean up his mess seemingly and they just jammed the conclusion into two short seasons and moved on to other projects. The more and more you see GRRM not writing Winds of Winter the more you can excuse D&D for just abandoning the show.
There's a strong streak of nihilism in the universe. Servants or dirt peasants are basically just cannon fodder, to be sacrificed or killed by the rich folks at their whim. While this is used to make the story seem more "realistic", it also makes the writers seem like tryhard edgelords.
It also seems like a system that neck itself after a while, given the 20-year winters and so on.
Don't let his overwhelming autism fool you. He has a nice job at the State Department and has made 6 figures from Asoiaf theories.
That era was filled with wonder as even though there was consensus on major details, there's so much unaddressed that hundreds of theories were plausible. I vividly remember analyses of dragon rider genetics, mathematically determining the temperature of soup used to kill Viserys and schizo theory after schizo theory. The issue is the lull has been far too long. The community has largely come to a consensus about the major story beats that are going to happen next and the show filled in lots of gaps.
