these replies & quotes…. how fucking disgusting. like the rest of us, of course i want twow and ados, but george doesn’t owe us shit. this is his art, his magnum opus, and nobody is entitled to that.
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like i knew going in that they changed so much, but wdym viserys and aegon weren’t even there???? like you changed the core of what jace died for and made him fight with his mother for NOTHINGGGGGG
George R.R. Martin tracked 8 viewpoint characters in the first book. By the fifth he was tracking 31. The reason book six never ships is hiding in that jump.
Every POV is a piece of state that has to stay consistent: where the character is, what they know, what day it is, who they've crossed paths with. 8 characters give you 28 possible pairings to keep straight. 31 give you 465. The bookkeeping doesn't grow in a line. It grows with the square of the cast.
He hit the wall in 2005. What became A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons was one novel he had to split by geography, Westeros in one volume and Essos in the other, because he could no longer interleave the timelines into a single thread. That's sharding a story because the monolith stopped compiling.
Martin named the worst piece himself: the Meereenese knot. Several characters converging on one city, each arriving at a different time, each chapter depending on the order of the others. He worried at it for six years and finally cut it by adding a new viewpoint to cover the gaps. Untangling it only widened the surface he then had to resolve in the next book.
Now run the other side of the ledger. The show aired its ending in 2019, to a fan revolt. His net worth sits near $120M, with royalties and HBO money landing every year whether or not the book exists. Two spinoffs are filming right now and want his hours. Finishing carries one near-certain outcome: getting measured against a finale fans despised, on plot threads he's publicly said he can't untie. The wait since 2011 has already passed the 15 years it took to write the first five.
The sprawl of viewpoints is what made Westeros feel like a real place with no center. It's also the thing he now has to resolve by hand, at 77, for almost no money he doesn't already have. He calls the book the curse of his life. The curse was the architecture.
Lo que tengo claro de este primer episodio es que todos los problemas o conveniencias que se puedan sentir en el mismo (las subtramas, en su mayor parte) vienen de una mala planificación.
Básicamente por esto. Quitar dos episodios de una temporada tiene que tener una buena razón
“Thousands dιed. Yet none of these losses were felt so deeply as that of Jacaerys Velaryon, Prince of Dragonstone and heir to the Iron Throne.”
“When the Sea Snake was congratulated on his victory, the old man said, “If this be victory, I pray I never win another.”
El problema es que Jacaerys es los libros muere como un héroe: valiente, audaz, luchando hasta el final por salvar a sus hermanos.
En la serie muere como un niño imbécil que se aventura solo y toma decisiones estúpidas.
No es subversivo. Es mala adaptación.
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Prometieron 25 minutos de una de las batallas más sangrientas e importantes de la Danza de Dragones y la mostraron súper tangencialmente. Y encima hacen que la muerte de Jace sea culpa de Robaovejas. No puedo creer el desastre que hizo Condal, una vez más. 🫠
I’m fully buying into the conspiracy theory he has completed the book and just wants to release it after he dies so he doesn’t have to deal with the fans