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Well since there won't be a book for them to spend $15 on they can just spend that $15 on a month of HBO and stream the few episodes in less time than it would take to read the book.
you can watch the show if you choose to. If not, guess it's off to Wikipedia. 
Guy got majorly paid and then was shown an exciting life traveling the world and producing tv shows. Imo the only thing he did wrong is not hand the books off to somebody else or just announce hey nerds I'm not finishing, piss off.
I guess fat and lazy GRRM was at least motivated enough to give Benioff & Weiss the direction the story was going to go and how it would end so they can write it themselves. Did I mention that GRRM was fat?
The fat man owes me!!!
Guy got majorly paid and then was shown an exciting life traveling the world and producing tv shows. Imo the only thing he did wrong is not hand the books off to somebody else or just announce hey nerds I'm not finishing, piss off.
Why not just enjoy the countless hours of enjoyment he gave you rather than ripping the guy for being lazy. It took him a long time between books when he wasn't producing TV shows and had many more demands and opportunities for his time. He;s not lazy. In fact, he's incredibly busy between all the work has has to do and now all the playing he can afford to do. Let the man be and stop pretending he owes you a damn thing, because he doesn't.
Soooo while I don’t think the guy is lazy, I kinda of do think he owes an ending. Everyone bought these books under the premise that it would be a complete story. These books were created as one long and continuous story. It’s kind of ####ty to make millions and then not complete it, because if people had know from the start it would end at 80% completion, they wouldn’t have started in the first place.
See I didn't know that. I'm on book three and have not seen a so single episodebigmarc27 said:
He never promised to finish the books. He just promised to write a good story. That story is good whether it has an ending or not. I hope he finishes it. I would hate for someone else to complete it and with the dollars at stake, someone would finish it. It wouldn't be the end of the world if someone else finished it, but I would like to see him do it. If he doesn't I'm not going to lose my #### over it. He's a human being. Let the guy live and do what every swinging **** in here would be doing if you all of the sudden had that much dough.
I think this is the main crux of where we disagree. He got rich off of this story, so yeah I do think he owes it to people to finish. If he had said I’m going to start this story but not finish, nobody would have bought the books. I think it’s completely fair for someone to have purchased these books to assume the product would be completed.
He has a responsibility to write a good story. He's done that. Over and over again. His story just so happens might be longer than he can write. Nobody is jumping all over Tolkein because he died before he finishes some of the stories he was working on. Nobody railed against Robert Jordan for not finishing the Wheel of Time series. I don't think GRRM has ever intended on not finishing the story. But to do them right, and to his standards, they take time. That's the beauty of his writing. It's so meticulous and well thought out. He doesn't just tell what a character is doing, he tells the full back story so we get completely invested in the guy before he kills him.
If someone made a movie and said it’s part 1 of 2, I don’t think it’s right to take someone’s money for part one and never release part two. It’s implied in the structure that there is a beginning, middle, and end. Right now, he’s made millions off of a beginning and a middle.
I think he will be writing this series or something beyond that (if he lives long enough) until he is physically unable to write anymore. It's not that he is lazy or that he is fat (something that I think makes more people call him lazy, but that's another discussion), it's that he's too busy with too many projects.
He gave them an outline....or an outline based on the characters situations in regards to the show.E Street Brat said:
It's not his anymore. It's his, Benioffs and Weiss'.
To that....to play devils advocate a bit as he doesn't owe anyone anything...the guy didn't have enough (for lack of better words because it's a bit mean) integrity to NOT sell the television rights.....but he has enough integrity to NOT "sit on" a ghost writer or writing assistant just to get the books done?
I don't know. I wasn't talking about any kind of integrity. Just that I think, given some of his blog posts, that he seems sanguine about where the TV show has gone. Sure he cashed the checks asap, but maybe he wishes he was farther along with the story (like, done with it).
Tv show fell off right when the books did. When tyrion n araya goto essos. I thought season 6 of tv show was excellent. Worst part of show was sand snakes. Without the scourge material I think the show did great
Yeah, I won't argue that book 3 was the peak for me in the books too. I really didn't like where Tyrion ended up since I thought most of Danys stuff was dull to begin with. Tyrion needs people as sharp as he is to be around, and that definitely wasn't it.
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(kind of an odd time to pick this back up since my original post was in May 2017 but whatevs)
I really, really hated this part, but a little more time and it could have been ok. Tyrion goes to King’s Landing to talk to Jamie. Just insert a 5 minute scene where Jamie convinces Tyrion the only way that Cersei will come to a truce is if she believes the WWs are real, and that the only way for that to happen is if she sees one. Bam, done. Instead they just rabbit ####ed their way through the season cutting corners all the way along.
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