The OOP Files: GRRM regrets not finishing the books before the show ended

[spankmypirate]

George R.R. Martin wishes the Game of Thrones books had stayed ahead of the TV series. https://t.co/igstuYEd0z pic.twitter.com/1tYKgCO4kD
- IGN (@IGN) June 25, 2021
Fantasy's laziest novelist sat his ass down with Chicago's PBS Station to admit that "looking back, I wish I'd stayed ahead of the books

Comments

[just444]

just give us a summary at this point

[fauxkaren]

It's been ten years since ADWD.

.... We're never getting the final 2 books.

[soavantgarde]

That makes me feel so fucking old, omg.

[fauxkaren]

lmao yeah. I was living in London and bought a signed copy at the Waterstones off of Piccadilly Circus!!! And like.... that was TEN YEARS AGO? I'm so old.

[tralexora]

Right?
"He remained ambiguous about whether the books will have a different ending..."
You mean would have had.

ETA I only read the first book lol

[yami_no_hoshi]

lol just tell us how you would end it, it’s never gonna be done

[snuffyqui45]

He's gonna be like Carly Simon re: You're So Vain and auction off the "real" ending to the highest bidder.

He'll troll/lie til the very end.

[yami_no_hoshi]

Lmao for real! Basically I just want to know if he also intended for Bran to be on the throne because wtf

[soavantgarde]

Us Bran stans weren’t surprised by it at all lol 😎

[__nocturna]

i read the books about a year before the show started, and for those... 5? years or so when the show was good, oh man. i was loving it.

now i 100% do not care about the books anymore and have completely moved on. GRRM should just be honest and admit what we all know - he stopped being into it years ago and lost motivation. just admit it dude

[yami_no_hoshi]

Mte, it’s clear he either has no motivation at this point. I remember a blog post or something where he said he wrote himself into a corner with Daenerys’s storyline in Meereen and can’t get out but like…you can. You made this world!!! Lol

[alterector]

It's a fantasy series, where there is literally magic and resurrected characters, he can make anything up.

[yami_no_hoshi]

Exactly, I get writer’s block and I’m sympathetic to that but considering its his world and he made the rules, there’s a million ways to fix it!

[squirrels_oh_no]