Game of Thrones Thread

[buying gf]

I mean, five minutes after the chair gets melted they spend an awful lot of time discussing who will be king. As in, who would have previously sat on that chair. So it was, in fact, about that.

Dinklage's comments would have made sense if Drogon had burned the chair before The Long Fifteen Minutes. But the show didn't make sense and neither does Dinklage. But idk, maybe getting fanmail from shipniggers melts your brain.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

I mean I agree to the extent that ultimately the question of who sat the throne didn't matter, but everybody with an IQ higher than room temperature agrees that the dragon melting the throne because the struggle for power killed his mommy is a laughably heavy handed and an embarrassingly poor way to convey that message.

The fact that he describes it as "brilliant" really tells us a lot about Dinklage's intelligence.

I don't think the metaphor even works considering the fact that what killed Daenarys was her stubbornness, self-delusions and probable insanity. If an actual citizen of Westeros had burned it then the symbolism would have worked since it's more of a symbol of inter-house fighting than some conqueror randomly arriving spouting his past legacy and heading an army of eunochs and rapists.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

I mean, five minutes after the chair gets melted they spend an awful lot of time discussing who will be king. As in, who would have previously sat on that chair. So it was, in fact, about that.

In keeping with the show's tradition, Dinklage "kind of forgot" about that detail.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

What are the odds of a midget actually having a name with "dink" in it? I just always picture Dink the Clown.

Sorry, I just really had to get that out.

 

[Mary the Goldsmith]

Guys guys you need to remember one thing, Dinklage has been smelling everyones farts his entire life of course his brain doesn't work properly

 

[Cactuar King]

This reminds me of Levar Burton’s whole racism shtick in regards to Star Trek.

Just as much of a racebaiter as his daughter, what a shocker.

 

[Ishtar]

I'm not too surprised about Dinklage's comments, I believe he actually recommended Lena Headey to the show for her LGBT activism or something. Actor is a libtard, in other news water is wet.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

Martin gave an update on the State of the Franchise

tl;dr

Hardly got shit done for Winds of Winter. He seems to be focused on all of the various adaptations of his work on television/streaming, so he's focusing on writing more Dunk & Egg and Fire and Blood Vol 2.

His statement that his primary focus is on "the world" of Ice and Fire seems to imply that Winds will never be finished (and why not? the show already finished so what's the point ot him right?) so that he can focus on all the spinoffs for HBO.

 

[Absolutego]

I know, I know, for many of you out there, only one of those projects matters.

I am sorry for you. They ALL matter to me.

I am beyond done with this fat cunt. What an obnoxious attitude to have towards people who want you to finish the story that put you in such a situation to have all these side projects.
I hope he goes through with burning all his notes when he dies, just to screw the studios and publishers that gave him this much rope to hang himself.

 

[Foltest]

I can understand if he want to do side project, but here is a thing George..... they are called side project for a reason.
Here is my suggestions: hire some authors that you trust and let them write the side shit, so you can focus on finishing the damn book! You can still have final approval at the end as an editor but by the seven hells, focus on the book!

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

I am beyond done with this fat cunt. What an obnoxious attitude to have towards people who want you to finish the story that put you in such a situation to have all these side projects.
I hope he goes through with burning all his notes when he dies, just to screw the studios and publishers that gave him this much rope to hang himself.

Yeah, it's been near eleven years. I am not convinced this book is coming out in my lifetime. At this point, make up your own ending, or just pick your favorite fanfiction and say that's the ending.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

I am beyond done with this fat cunt. What an obnoxious attitude to have towards people who want you to finish the story that put you in such a situation to have all these side projects.
I hope he goes through with burning all his notes when he dies, just to screw the studios and publishers that gave him this much rope to hang himself.

The justice in it is that the only "work" GRRM had connection to, that will be talked about in a decade is Elden Ring.
The tv series ending killed any interests in the books and spinoffs. If he had continues the books he might have salvaged it, but he almost certainly lives in his fanjerk bubble.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

or just pick your favorite fanfiction and say that's the ending.

That sperg Preston Jacobs is actually trying to crowdsource an ending, funny enough.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

If he had finished the books and the ending had been good, he might have gone down in literature history as our contemporary JRR Tolkien.
Without the ending, he'll go down in history as the guy that had a big fluke when creating a promising franchise, completely let it fall apart due to incompetence and laziness and then just shat himself and did nothing until he finally keeled over.

Fucking numbnut.

 

[Absolutego]

If he had finished the books and the ending had been good, he might have gone down in literature history as our contemporary JRR Tolkien.
Without the ending, he'll go down in history as the guy that had a big fluke when creating a promising franchise, completely let it fall apart due to incompetence and laziness and then just shat himself and did nothing until he finally keeled over.

Fucking numbnut.

I still think the bare bones of the ending as shown in the TV show could be good/satisfying (he'd have to create better foreshadowing for Dany's turn, of course, not have Cersei as the final boss, fix Jaime and Bran's story and make the Long Night more impactful, obviously), which makes it all the more annoying/kinda embarrassing that he looked at what D&D came up with and basically decided "yeah, sure, fine, that works, time to write about some Targs and Yi Ti".

Like, thread poll, how many of you have even heard of Yi Ti?

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

Like, thread poll, how many of you have even heard of Yi Ti?

I only learned about it yesterday watching a video where someone was bitching about GRRM not finishing Winds lol

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

I still think the bare bones of the ending as shown in the TV show could be good/satisfying (he'd have to create better foreshadowing for Dany's turn, of course, not have Cersei as the final boss, fix Jaime and Bran's story and make the Long Night more impactful, obviously), which makes it all the more annoying/kinda embarrassing that he looked at what D&D came up with and basically decided "yeah, sure, fine, that works, time to write about some Targs and Yi Ti".

Like, thread poll, how many of you have even heard of Yi Ti?

Is Yi Ti like the stripclub that Martin hangs out?

 

[Stab You in the Back]

I still think the bare bones of the ending as shown in the TV show could be good/satisfying (he'd have to create better foreshadowing for Dany's turn, of course, not have Cersei as the final boss, fix Jaime and Bran's story and make the Long Night more impactful, obviously), which makes it all the more annoying/kinda embarrassing that he looked at what D&D came up with and basically decided "yeah, sure, fine, that works, time to write about some Targs and Yi Ti".

Like, thread poll, how many of you have even heard of Yi Ti?

My overly optimistic hope is that the last event adapted in the show from GRRM's outline is Cersei blowing up the Sept of Baelor. Everything after that is fanfiction.

 

[Absolutego]

My overly optimistic hope is that the last event adapted in the show from GRRM's outline is Cersei blowing up the Sept of Baelor. Everything after that is fanfiction.

I think the broad points are the same, but in the books Cersei blowing up the Sept is obviously the pretext for Aegon to invade the city with the public's tacit support (which obviously should have happened in the show, and it not happening was what caused me to totally check out), leading to Dany encountering a more popular, debatably Targaryen monarch when she got around to invading King's Landing that fueled her heel turn.

 

[DX10]

Cersei blowing up the Sept should straight up lead to the Kingsguard turning on her at the very fucking least. The way she 9/11 Hiroshimaisaki's the whole fucking city and kills the entire noble caste, as well as low hundreds of civilians, and nobody just does anything... wild shit. Especially when there were several scenes showing peasant revolts/riots/aggression in earlier seasons.