I don't see how a sci-fi twist wouldn't completely trivialize everything from the... five? eight? twenty? books before this. It would be right up there with the "it was all a dream" season of Dallas.
I don’t think it would be too far out, but it would definitely enrage a lot of people lol
And yet on the other hand, you can have a situation like with the Heroes of Might and Magic video game series. When New World Computing wanted to introduce a science-fiction themed faction into the third game (and keep in mind that the setting is a "hidden science fiction" one, something which is especially blatant if you play the RPG games set in the same world), the creators got flooded with literal death threats... sent via physical mail... to their home addresses.
There's also a series of theories which posit that the Masters are an Illuminati stand-in, secretly trying to snuff out magic from the world, which is why they manipulated the events behind "The Dance of Dragons".
The least retarded way to go about this would be to be as ambiguous as possible about it. If everything's describe through the eyes of a Westerosi, Martin could straight up do the most iconic sci-fi stuff, it would still end up garbled enough that you wouldn't know if it was magic and demons or a flying saucer and aliens.
Pern series from the very beginning is a science fiction fantasy series. First few pages were very upfront how the humans colonized the world and what led to them going from technological to fantasyish.
I'm gonna laugh if they managed to kill this series hard enough that even the FunkoPop cultists don't consoom the 10th anniversary merch.
HBO must really be bleeding money and subscribers. Game of Thrones is so thoroughly dishonoured and discredited, even the ending of Mass Effect 3 pales in comparison. Next to nobody cares about the setting outside of the various novels and sourcebooks, and even that is beginning to wane, with people slowly yet surely realising the series will probably never be completed - or at least, not by Mr. Martin himself. I'm almost of the opinion that his publisher/editors are patiently waiting for the man to die, so that then the real work on the series can begin. In the meantime, they humour him by letting the jolly old man work on the lore and history of "Planetos".
The irony is when Tolkien was alive, his colleagues told him to stop wasting time on make believe stories and go back to his serious academic stuff.
Oh they do, but they're memes that talk about how D&D are hacks and how much they hated season 8.
He has no mouth and he can't scream.
I would only contemplate going to that anniversary website, if it had a guestbook that allows me to call everyone involved in writing for the show a stupid faggot.
Brian Cogman's all right, he just kept getting sidelined by the dodos towards the end. Before Season 7 I'd say he was the best writer on the show who didn't also write the books. His episodes afterwards are tainted by association, unfortunately.
I don't understand the concept of making a prequel in the first place. A series taking place in the past, but concerning peoples and events disconnected from the main series? Of course. Set in some of the distant lands we barely ever hear about? Yes, please. But this? They might as well create a series about Robert's Rebellion.
GRRM is autistically obsessed with the Targaryens, and most official asoiaf content written after the show came out concerns them. I 100% believe they're going in this direction because it gives them the most buy-in from the author. Like we saw with the latter half of the show, and the "the white walkers are akshually about colonialism" pilot that got mercy killed, when they don't have George around to rip off, the story content goes to shit.
Yes, his love for that particular household is quite obvious, which makes his comments about Mr. Tolkien and his writing all the more hypocritical, seeing as Mr. Martin is so laser-focused on an incestual, magical, dragon-taming family, with quite a few sorcerers in their ranks to boot. They don't sound "low fantasy", do they?
Remember this man's entire series is essentially fanfiction of the War of the Roses. The Red Wedding is a riff on the Black Dinner in the 15th century. The Dorne/Iron Islands arcs have a lot of parallels in Plantagenet history. I think GRRM is just a huge medieval dynastic politics fanboy and he continues to default to what's comfortable as he struggles to figure out the next book.
yeah, and that’s unfortunate, because world building is usually much stronger when the premise isn’t based off a real world equivalent. I don’t have any problems with real world allusions or allegories, but it so clearly being a war of the roses ananology makes it a lot weaker than if it was just a feudal conflict.
