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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulUBDu_97z8&t=0m56s

>"We've all seen movies where the hero is in trouble, surrounded by 20 people but you know he will get away because he is the hero. I don't want my story to be that way. I want my viewers to be afraid." - GRRM

what did he mean by this?
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Do you think this man writes the HBO series Game of Thrones?
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>I want my viewers to be afraid
>*introduces resurrection mechanic*
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>viewers
not giving a shit about readers, as always.
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>>86796325
I mean, it used to be.

Fat fuck cant write a single book in 7 years. entirely his fault its turned into such a shitshow.
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>>86796325
>GRRM has no creative control of the show
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Why are you spergs so obsessed with nitpicking this incredible series with your dumb /pol/-tier logical fallacies? Just because it's popular? Get a grip neckbeards.
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Did he literally give up writing because doing the show was easier?
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He really enjoys killing characters
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>>86796339

GRRM's resurrection is quite interesting. And in both the books and the show it doesn't mean a total resurrection and more like an abomination. Beric was living a nightmare.

For all we know, Jon Snow might drop dead after the NK dies and magic fades planetos again.
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>>86796392
Poor b8, try to be more subtle
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>>86796409
He's famous now. He's making up for years of not getting any pusy by fucking every fan he can. His heart's going to give out one of these days.
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Remember when this show didn't have time travel and resurrections and teleportation?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dQJIHvm9fc
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>>86796295
we know


they jacked the fat man's story and used it for commie propaganda

everyone w/ a brain already knows this
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THE MORE SHE DRANK THE MORE SHE SHAT
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>>86796295
that fat fuck and his overrated Medieval Times reject tv show need to die

worst fanbase except for rick and morty.
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>>86796490
see also: Star Wars
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>>86796490
>spend the entire 18 months between seasons whining about the number of females in leadership positions
>nearly all of them get killed off within 2 episodes of the new season
>you don't admit you were wrong, you just move on to crying about some other cherry picked aspect of the show like the conservative SJWs that you are

What does /pol/ mean by this?
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>Afraid that he'll die before finishing the story

Is this man secretly a genius?
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>>86796325
the fat fucking hack can't write jack shit anyway so it doesn't matter
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>>86796549
it's truly amazing how many shills are on this board. they will literally answer any post you make.

that's entertainment in 2017. throwing rocks at the shill wall. What a time to be alive.

mfw
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>>86796435
And that's why he isn't as good as Tolkien, and apparently knows nothing of middle earth lore.
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LITTLE ORC CRADLES
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>>86796455
Magic faded because of the extinction of dragons.
Beric was an abomination, but the leading theory is that Jon warged into Ghost when he died, and when his body was resurrected he was able to take back over without a problem.
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>>86796729
>Magic faded because of the extinction of dragons.

no it didn't

there's literally no confirmation on what happened with magic or if magic as we understand it even exists in got (the show makes it a bit more obvious)
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>>86796549
>nearly all of them get killed off within 2 episodes of the new season
The fuck are you talking about? The sandy titty sisters got killed, and there mother imprisoned (protip: she will escape) and I guess "Grandma depends" got killed of, but that was more a matter of her story arc being completely spent. Captain cunt the dread dyke has been captured but is presumably still alive, who knows what her and her creepy uncle are up too.

So basically only 1 of those "strong independent woman" characters has been killed, and her story was done anyways.
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>"We've all seen movies where the hero is in trouble, surrounded by 20 good men and about to be fried by a dragon but you know he will get away because he is the hero. I don't want my story to be that way. I want my viewers to be afraid." - GRRM
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>>86796804
It goes away when they died and comes back when they're reborn.
Seems pretty cut and dry to me desu fampai
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>>86796295
>video from 2013
>/tv/ are such backwards retards that they fall for this bait
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>>86797004
Its more like the dragons are reborn because the magic comes back. Dragons are just one of many things that signal it's return.
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>>86797011
I think the point was to demonstrate how far the show has strayed from his vision. Try and keep up brainlet.
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>>86797228
yeah but after the red wedding it's never been like that, you know all the main characters have plot armour and can only die in meaningful ways
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>>86797287
Why is it that you think GRM is lying about his own sensibilities or oeuvre?

HBO, and the people behind it, obviously have their own motives and objectives.
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>>86796295
Literally what the last episode was...

>>86796478
Resurrections are kinda cool though. The palpable plot armor on all the main characters and the all around plot convenience and stupid character decisions are the real killers of the show this season.
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>>86796339
Yeah but everyone who is resurrected is basically a half-living she'll of their former selves. Beric hardly had any life force left in him, couldn't remember where he lived, and Catelyn's mind is just fucked. She's a zombie
I do hope that Jon comes back changed, though at this point I'm beginning to doubt that. But I hope he changes as a result of his resurrection
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>>86797564
Except instead of 20 people it was hundreds of thousands of zombies.
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>>86797564
>The palpable plot armor on all the main characters and the all around plot convenience and stupid character decisions are the real killers of the show this season.

nigga shoehorning in commie propaganda at every possible turn until the creators and the cast got demoralized and just want to go home killed this show.
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They should have had another character go down under the ice. We know Jon will survive.

Last episode was such a fucking mess that I started transcribing the script into fadein just so I could fix it myself
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>>86796549
>>nearly all of them get killed off within 2 episodes of the new season
There are 5 of them perfectly alive, another extra 2 in not-dead status.

That's 7 fucking females, against what? 9 guys? The seven hunters+Jaime&Tyrion.

Still too many fucking women. Plus Jon Snow should have never been revived, he should die, he is a shit male, he is a fucking manlet.
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>>86797564
>Resurrections are kinda cool though.
get out
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>>86796295
>GRRM explains how he doesn't understand fantasy
We know, George. We know.
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>>86796295
This makes me sad. He probably hates what's become of the show.
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>>86796478
They literally brought out zombies in the first scene you tard
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>>86797440
I think he set that up in the beginning but realised if main characters were dying left and right that it'd make for a shitty narrative and disappointed fans

At the very least he realised that the main characters needed to die in impressive and meaningful ways which makes it easy when reading the books to detect one of his fake outs
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>>86797747
For sure. I don't believe for a fucking second that he 'can't' finish those books either. I more than suspect they are being purposefully held back.
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>sunday night's episode
>jon is surrounded by 200 people but you know he will get away because he is the hero
>oh no it looks like they got him!
>psyche, he got away!

wow what a thrill ride, so scary
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>>86797860
That's why people still think Stannis is coming back ;-;
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>>86796643
>useful idiot
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>>86797681
>Still too many fucking women
why though? other than basic misogyny
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>>86796381
Is this bait?
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>>86796295
he meant that even if Jon Snow dies he can always resurrect him

that's defies fantasy tropes

resurrection

think about it
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>>86796643
>they will literally answer any post you make.
>>86797916


mfw
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>>86797994
we're just jacking each other off for (You)'s at this point friendo
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>>86797984
Not that anon, but I'd bet that is 100% accurate.
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>>86798030
(You)
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>>86797956
Women can't act.
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d&d don't do this anymore - did you see the last episode? they brought along a few nameless free folk to die at various points, but the whole fellowship of the wight should have died, especially tormund.
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GRRM admits that he doesn't even watch the show anymore:
http://pagesix.com/2017/08/23/george-r-r-martin-doesnt-watch-game-of-thrones/

>George R.R. Martin, the author of the famed “A Song of Ice and Fire” series, revealed in a recent Metro interview that he doesn’t watch the show based off his novels. He said between writing and touring, he doesn’t have the time.

>Despite being too busy to tune in on Sunday nights, the author — who always dons a fisherman’s cap — has had plenty of time to post photos of himself trying on new hats on social media.
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>>86797564
>Resurrections are kinda cool though
How? Immediately it's a tension killer, you now know that even if an important character were to die, there's the possibility of return, even if the specific way by which ressurection happened that time is said to be rare or unique, the mere introduction of its possibility kills tension.
But most importantly, it's a betrayal of the reader/audience, whatever you felt at the death of the character, either sorrow,acceptance or even satisfaction, becomes meaningless, the story trains you to not take it seriously, to no invest yourself emotionally in it, because it doesn't care.
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Who else thinks they're winding down to the destruction of all the houses in a closed time loop, where the ultimate message will be that centralized power is the ideal that entropies over time to diversion. Maybe with an incest child thrown in for good measure.

It will be quite the (((ending)))
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>>86798137
BASED
A
S
E
D
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>>86796368
This. If even before the show started he finished Dance with Dragons in '06 like he was supposed to TWoW would probably be out by now and D&D wouldn't be fucking winging it.
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>>86796295
this is literally assault

throw him in prison
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>>86796435
he's right
gandalf had a great death scene
and he had a great "return" scene too
fuck grrm
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>>86798389
they're not letting him publish it dumb fuck. they want to control the ending. try not to be such a rube.
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>>86796549
>what is brevity
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>>86796435
You know he is literally right. Gandalf's sacrifice was awesome, he didn't need to return as Le white man to save the day. Just introduce another character.
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>>86796295
>I want my viewers to be afraid

I love how he didnt say "readers". Traitorous piece of shit.

Also:

>Danny has plot armor the size of the patriarchy
>The Imp has plot armor the size of his drinking habit
>Jon has plot armor the size of insecurities from being a manlet and even gets resurrected
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>>86798436
That has nothing to do with the fifth book being 5 years late, ya cunt.
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>>86798124
Did you miss the fucking dragon getting killed?
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>>86798477
I love how the shills are making the author whose story they hijacked into the bad guy.

Not that fatty did sign those contracts and cash those checks, but still...get fucked faggot.
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"George R. R. Martin" - Tom Scharpling
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>>86798514
>not even a coherent argument

hypothesis confirmed
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>>86798553
>defends a franchise
>calls other people shills

Back to your containment board turboautist.
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>>86796490
>>86796530
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>>86798328
DBZ did that shit all the time and the tension was always still there, every fight.
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>>86798337
I could unironicaly see this happening.
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>>86796478
I started watching Season 1 again and King Robert's trip from King's Landing to Winterfell takes a month during summer.
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>>86798110
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>>86798625
Yeah when I was 10 years old.
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>>86798678
stop samefagging. and then find honest work.
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>>86798452
You wouldnt understand it anon, it was a different time back then, it was ok for white men to save the day.
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>>86798678
>that gif
Emilia's acting teacher.
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>>86798730
you can stop talking to yourself dickhead.
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>>86798137
>too busy to watch an hourlong TV show once a week

he's clearly not writing, what the fuck does he do with his time? Why is he so bitter about the show diverging from the books when he has no one but himself to blame for that happening?
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>>86798625
>>86798625
>and the tension was always still there
No, it wasn't, you fucking weeb.

Frieza? There was no resurrects because Freezer had the balls in his power. Making one of the tightest shits ever for the characters since they had to rely in literally whos to steal them (gohan and krillin)

Cell? The dude was going to destroy the whole planet, balls included.

Buu? He literally petrified the dragon balls.

Even Toriyama or whatever the fuck his name was, knew you can't make a story when there is free resurrection, and in literally every arc of DBZ, he addressed that issue.

You are an autistic HBO shill, and you should end your life.
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>>86798807
He doesn't want to watch a shitty ass show?
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>>86796295
>"We've all read books where the author is healthy, hard-working and you know he or she will finish their series. I don't want my story to be that way. I want my readers to be afraid." - GRRM

B R A V O MARTIN
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>>86798033
What is accurate, idiot? He hasn't even written an episode in years. Or a page of his books, for that matter.
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>>86798889
That's what he is saying you illiterate doll
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>>86798889
>stops writing 1 (one) episode per season in season 5 so he can "focus on the books"
>three years later still hasn't finished Winds

what the fuck did he mean by this?
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>>86796295
Can someoen explain why everyone loves GoT to me? It just looks like a stittier and more edgy Lord of the Rings
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>>86798728
>Muh white lolocaust
Try to argue without memes, you illiterate cockstain.
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>>86798865
again, anyone who is still blaming GRM for those books not being out is a dummy normie or a shill. It's a highly improbable accounting.
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>>86798922
>he still hasn't realized the books are never coming out
GRRM doesn't want to write the books anymore. It's like when you eat noodles everyday, eventually you get tired of it.

He doesn't care about the books or the story anymore. He signed up to help HBO make the spin offs, he is also doing other shit. He does not want to finish the books. It's over.
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>>86796648
>muh lore autism

no one actually cares about world building, the importance of stories are its themes and an emotional connection between the audience and the characters

it's why no one gives a flying fuck about the simarillion except autists, it's just a boring fake history lesson
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>>86797584
The book never confirms that he dies in the first place, he's just left bleeding out in the snow.
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>>86798945
You are right, GoT is that. However, ASOIAF is not.
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>>86799001
Then he should just admit he's done and then let us all move on, rather than insisting he has pages and then acting bitter and getting pissy that the show doesn't adhere to his (non-existent) source material
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>>86798889
No, I was agreeing. I'd bet that GRM has ZERO creative control over the show.

But you're a shill who thinks he's slick and subtly enforcing the GRM somehow became a tremendous procrastinator out of nowhere narrative.

Nice try.
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>>86799001
fuck off shillbaum


this shit is that nerd's entire life and everyone knows it.
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>>86796435

I thought Gandalf's return was really well done, though.
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>>86796435
wow fuck GRRM, i mean if he really said that
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>>86799037
>Then he should just admit he's done and then let us all move on
Many of us already did. Why haven't you?

If anything the show has shown us that GRRM is gonna need like 5000 pages to wrap all the storylines up like the show has done, without having pacing issues nor leaving plotholes behind. Too much effort, too many variables, Daenerys still has no reason to leave Mereen.
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>>86799109
>he doesn't believe the things he reads on the internet
the fuck?
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>>86799163
>"GoT was a mistake"
- GRRM
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>>86797956

Women suck at war.
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>>86799342
jesus you niggers are irritating

the shilling on this board has gotten way out of control
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>>86796476
>implying bar watcher sluts even know who he is. Most of them probably don't even know there are books
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>>86797584
I feel you
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>>86799392
more fucking shilling


this is insane. you dudes seem scarred.
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>>86799001
>GRRM doesn't want to write the books anymore.

Maybe, but he's got a contract with his publisher for two more books nonetheless.
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>>86799027
That's fair, there's still a lot to unpack after the events of that night. But I'm leaning towards him dying and being resurrected by Melisandre (possibly at the cost of her life)
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>>86799119
I have moved on for the most part, I enjoy the show a lot, I just wish GRRM would put up or shut up, he keeps whining yet hasn't released a complete book since 2001
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>>86799420
Nigga plz. His (((publisher))) is in on it.
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>>86799429
more shilling


they've definitely upgraded . these shills are smarter than the pajeets they were using. this is a different crew.
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>>86798137
>"doesn't have 1 hour a day to watch a show"
>aka, is a hedonistic degenerate that is not capable of doing something productive for more than 30 min per day if at all
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>readers of AGoT rooting for Ned to win
>GRRM kills Ned shocks people "That's life, folks. People die their lives cut short their stories unresolved"
>readers of ACoK/ASoS rooting for Robb to win
>GRRM kills Robb shocks people "That's life, folks. People die their lives cut short their stories unresolved"
>readers of AFfC/ADwD rooting for GRRM to hurry up and finish the fucking series after taking 5/6 years a piece to finish those two books and now is taking 8/9/10/100 years to finish the next
>GRRM kills himself being an obese piece of shit stuffing his fat face instead of writing shocks people "That's life, folks. People die their lives cut short their stories unresolved"
pottery
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>>86799378
The only nigger here is you.

>he replies to every poster in this thread
lol
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>>86799418
Kill yourself reddit
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>>86799493
Now that's what I would call pottery
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>>86796804
>>Magic faded because of the extinction of dragons.
>no it didn't
>there's literally no confirmation on what happened with magic

Yes there is, the street magician in Qarth is an example; his magic only worked because the dragons were again in the world and Beric Dondarrion's resurrection (as well as Catelyn's and Jon Snow's when it happens) is because magic works again and that's straight up because dragons exist.

The power of magic collapse when the Valerian empire collapsed and when the last Targaryen dragons died out, it was completely gone (except for "fixed" magic, like the Wall).

Magic on Planetos is directly tied to the existence of dragons.
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>>86799599
>being this fucking retarded
You realize the dragons, along with magic, only came back because of The Comet, right?

You do know this, right?
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Fuck GRRM. ASOIAF isn't even satisfying to read anymore. We get it. He loves to fuck over the characters we like. At this point even that has become predictable and the books are just gut punches over and over again. He spent a whole book detailing fat Sam's travel from the wall to Oldtown. Fuck off and get over yourself you fat fuck nobody gives a shit. Stop think you're clever for writing a series with literally zero pay offs.
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>>86799440
>Nigga plz. His (((publisher))) is in on it.

The publisher only gets a small percentage of HBO's money, they get a LOT more from each book.

And Gurm would have gotten an advance on the next two books so unless he wants a law suit on his hands, (that he can't win) he's going to have to produce two more books.

Now I'm hoping he's just waiting for the shitty tv series to end before releasing the books, as they'll be completely different from the retarded crap D&D puked up on screen but it might be he'll just copy them and claim that was his story all along.
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>>86796295
He's probably refusing to write the rest because the publisher's won't agree to letting the whole thing be a POV of his Mary Sue Daenerys
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>>86799769
I'm almopst hoping he's beta testing the bok with the show and throw away what clearly sucks and doesn't work.
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>>86799769
>August 2017
>STILL doesn't realize the entirety of MSM colludes

jk...I know you're not stupid, just a shill.
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>>86799659
>You realize the dragons, along with magic, only came back because of The Comet, right?

Nah, the comet only heralds the return of dragons and magic.
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>>86799769
>retarded crap D&D puked up on screen

as opposed to the retarded crap GRRM puked up on the page, like Young Gryff and an entire book of Jon doing inventory?
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>>86799418
>making fun of the fan base
>shilling
Are you literally not figuratively retarded boy?
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I mean, killing off "important" characters is all fine and dandy at the beginning of a series where he introduced a bunch of them, but he can't keep doing it if he ever wants it to get somewhere.
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>>86799863
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>>86799873
We don't know what caused what. It is likely magic returned before the dragons since the Others are alive before the dragons are born. The ritual to birth the dragons was magic but the dragons themselves are not magic beings.
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>It's the same fantasy schlock you always read...
>...but my characters die in the middle of the story! What a great writer am I!
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>>86799913
AFFC is proof enough GRRM had lost track. He wrote 1000 pages on absolutely jack shit and thought we would like it. I can't even blame D&D at this point. They wanted to adapt the books but didn't realize GRRM was delusional enough to introduce a third Targaryen throne contender in the fifth book. At that point I think they just gave up and realized fat man was just digging the hole deeper and deeper.
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>>86799927

The dragons are absolutely magical and we have several references to the return of magic now that the dragons are back but like I said, some magic is "fixed" such as the existence of the Others, the walls of Stormsend, etc.
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>>86800087
AFFC was best book in the series mate
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>>86799876

Dabid, please. Everybody knows you guys are talentless hacks.
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>>86798668
To be fair, if you see the mode of transportation for the royal family you can understand why it would take that long. They had people carried in carriages so they could sit on couches and not ride on horseback like Cersei. You can't even travel at decent horse speed with that kind of baggage
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>>86800097
Again, its the comet not the dragon that brought magic. The direwolves came back before the dragons showed up
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>>86800087
I'm currently reading AFFC and it has been a chore to get through.
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>>86800087
AFFC is my favorite book, you edgy child.
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>>86800121
A Feast for Crows was as close to a filler season of a book series as you can get.

It's an amalgam of all the boring chapters he wrote for that wouldn't fit for the fifth book so he put together this shit. He writes without any form of brevity or agency which is why even now there are chapters from the Winds of Winter that were supposed to be in a Dance with Dragons as well
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>>86800168

The comet is just a herald.

There was magic for centuries without a comet continually looping around Planetos.
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>>86800121
>>86800205
How? It's just GRRM putting the characters in fixed position so he can stall and set up shit for the sequels. Hell Sansa even regresses in intellect. She is starting to get smart at the end of ADOS but she is back to dumb in AFFC. Cersei is going mad. Did we really need 10 chapters to point that out? Brienne is travelling the country road looking for a girl we know she won't find. How exciting! Didn't we already see war-ravaged riverlands through Arya? Dorne's plot is just filler because Doran doesn't want to tell them his master plan. The Ironborn are a plot tool spiraling out of control. Nobody cares about them and nobody ever will.

The book could've just been the Jaime chapters and I'd be fine with it.
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>>86798137
>doesn't have time to watch an hour long show that airs once a week which is an adaptation of his most famous work

Yeah... no. He doesn't watch it because it sucks.
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>>86800288
Feast is fine, it has a coherent idea behind it; it's a story about the victims of war and how those who survive a conflict as terrible as the Wot5K struggle to pick up the pieces, and the book has some of the best prose GRRM has ever written. If GRRM had actually finished the series, Feast would be praised for slowing it down a bit as the narrative transitioned between story arcs

Now, Dance, that book is a COMPLETE piece of shit that lacks any kind of climax or payoff.
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>>86797123
the dragon or the dragon egg if you will
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>>86800448
What the fuck? Dance is on par with AGOT. People don't realize how important Tyrion's descent is. The Northern storyline is geniunely exciting. Even Dany in Mereen is a nice insight into the ideals of young white girls clashing with the harsh muslim-like world she's trying to control. The only thing I dislike is the introduction of even more Targaryen throne contenders. It comes too late for me to take him seriously.
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>"We've all seen movies where the hero is in trouble, surrounded by 20 people but you know he will get away because he is the hero. I don't want my story to be that way. I want my viewers to be afraid." - GRRM
>make the hero a woman instead and give her 3 flying plot armors
breaking the mold tbqh
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>>86796295
Yet Jon Snow has got away how many times in similar situations?
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>>86800667
He's dead in the books.

Honestly the bullshit villains get away with is so much greater. Just look at Cersei. If she was a Stark she'd be dead long ago.
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>>86800374
>in fixed position
>Jaime travels all over westeros, and we get the biggest character development of all times
>Arya finally reaches her destination and lives as a beggar, letting us know how Braavos is like
>Brienne travels all over westeros, showing us how the common folk are doing
>We see for the first time Cersei inner personality, which is the opposite of stalling since she is paranoid as hell
>We get a glimpse of Doran and his plans
>A glimpse of Victarion Greyjoy, the greatest character of the entire series
>Sansa travelling and changing her identity, also getting sexually assaulted which is hot as fuck
Just so you know, I didn't ever read you after the word "stall". You are juts an edgy child unhappy because you got no Red Wedding, and no Wildling attacks. So whenever you have to read about character development and world building you start getting anxious, not enough action and death for your tiny little shit-taste brain.

You will never be a patrician.
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>>86800598
>Even Dany in Mereen is a nice
LOL
O
L

>liking any daenerys chapter ever since AGOT
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>>86798807
I think he isn't going to insult the show for being shit since he is getting money off of it anon.
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>>86800699
He's bleeding out in the books but isn't yet confirmed dead.
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>>86799768
>>86799913
This, just tie up loose ends and play out the climax/resolution already.
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>>86798807
>what the fuck does he do with his time?

He's probably fucking all the groupies and that porn star who played Shae
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>>86800762
>It's a Daenerys chapter
>It's a Bran chapter
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>>86800927
can his penis extend out from under his colossal gut? does he even have the ability to do sex on a lady?
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>>86796392
>incredible series
There are people who actually think this. Probably also boy wizard stretching his legs fans as well.
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>>86796435
How did Gandalf dying affect his tax rate?
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>>86800814
>I think he isn't going to insult the show for being shit since he is getting money off of it anon.

More than likely GRRM's contract with HBO prevents him from talking shit about the tv show no matter how he really feels about it and requires him to attend events praising the shitty tv show.
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>>86796295

What's a fat train engineer from the 19th century doing on a late night talk show?
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>>86796435
there is literally nothing wrong with cliches
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Let's be honest, how would you feel if NK Ice RPG'd and killed Jon, turned him into a white walker?

not that bran would do that
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>>86799769

It's perfect really, ever since the show passed the books the ratings have hit the next level, people are getting hyped over who will die and shit in a whole new way. HBO is selling subs for it alone, it's pretty much an unprecedented success for the medium of television. There's no way HBO will let go of that for the sake of some fucking books. At the same time though there's the publisher, of course they want the books to come out, right? WELL, the fact is that book readers are used to waiting years, and meanwhile new people are reading the existing ones and building up demand, plus the show just keeps getting bigger precisely because of the plot twists. Therefore letting the show run its course and get as popular as possible will only help book sales. GRRM has finished one, maybe BOTH books already, and that's why TWOW will come out a few months after the show ends, and ADOS will come out as quickly as possible after that without being suspicious, so 4 maybe 3 years.
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>>86800986
>It's a Daenerys chapter
>It's a Barristan/Jorah chapter or focus
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>>86801088
how did they build a castle on top of that mountain?
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>>86796295
Jon is already dead though?

Maybe the suspense is whether his chikd will die
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>>86801160
bad writing
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>>86796295
Too bad it's not up to him anymore. His story has been hoodwinked
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>>86801088
This os retarded. How do they eat

The first 2 seasons were only good because they stripped the magic and retardation from the plot
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>>86796325
>GoT is now network tier shite
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>>86801147
>Therefore letting the show run its course and get as popular as possible will only help book sales.

Which makes it all the more likely that the books will be wildly different then the tv show because if they're just as retarded as the tv series, they'd have been released along with the show to ride the hype wave whereas releasing them after, doesn't get the publisher any advantage.
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>>86801318
>hoodwinked
>showfags will attribute all the success or failure of the show to him
>bookfags will attribute all the success of the show to him and none of the failures
He's in the winning position.
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>>86797681
>Still too many fucking women
Fag
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>>86801088
This makes no sense, by this logic fucking Sweetrobin his mom and pretty much everyone inside there should have been wearing heavy winter clothes because of the altitude, this is like building a fucking warehouse on the top of Mt. Everest.
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>>86800699
After Rob and Kaitlyn were killed the Starks became invincible.
All the children are still alive except for one
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>>86796435
>>86798452
>>86798967
>encounter between symbols of good and bad
>the good knows he will die and holds off the enemy for his friends and a greater purpose
>gets rezzed as a reward for selfless bravery and to balance the other fallen angel, Sauruman
>average white person "he shoulda stayed dead, he was just an old man and shit"

white people are retards who dont even know their own myth anymore
some college boy faggot a few days ago thought aragorn was fantasy name and that tolkien "invented elves"

i bet a million dollars in seven years you ask the average white person what a valkyrie is and they'll answer "she that black gurl in thor dam slayy literally"
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>>86801691
>>>/pol/
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>>86801438

I'd say the publisher does get a slight advantage in terms of weathering harm from spoilers. See the major beats in the books had to be simplified for the show, so when the books were ahead you could more or less see them coming. Now that the show's ahead though while you may have certain major things spoiled there's no way to guess huge parts of the context surrounding them in the books. Basically anyone who cares at all about reading the books is still going to want to know how Bran's storyline turns out, how Jon reacts to being resurrected, when and why they'll end up burning Shireen (if at all), how Slaver's Bay will resolve, how Stannis will resolve, etc. By comparison everyone knew that the Red Wedding was coming, they could see more or less how it would play out, it's a miracle that it had the impact that it did considering the book came out years ago.
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>>86801742
case in point whiteboy
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>>86801652
>because of the altitude, this is like building a fucking warehouse on the top of Mt. Everest.

No, Everest is 8,800+ meters while at 1,300 meters, The Eyrie is a bit higher then Mt.Vesuvius
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>>86796295
It'd be great if the books end up being monumentally and fundamentally different from the show. Like even
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>>86796392
We shit on cape shit.
Not our fault that the shit show went down the gutter
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>>86801785

If the books are the same as the tv show, there’s no point in delaying their release until after the show is over, as the Internet will spill the beans and this will decrease sales of the book. Better to release the books along side the tv show and use their hype for increased sales while the product is hot.

But if the books are different then the tv show (and I pray to the gods, old and new that they are…) then it makes more sense to wait for the show to end, as the Internet will still spill the beans but now people will want to know how different they are from the show.
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>>86801899
no
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>>86802167
Nice argument there, big guy
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>>86796295
Did he watch the last episode of his own fucking show?

>LE MAGIC DRAGONS/BENJEN TO THE RESCUE IN THE NICK OF TIME

The show completely lost its balls after season 3
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>>86798452
You don't get irony do you
>Jon gets brought back from the dead
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>>86802194
for you
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>>86802071

Well no, we know for a fact that the books won't be the same as the show, if only because they'll be more complex. All major spoilers from the show could end up in the books and every single one will involve ten times as much context surrounding it. I have not one speck of doubt that releasing the show first will harm sales of the new books in any noticeable way as a result of spoilers. I do think that sales of the books will only be helped by letting the show spread the word as long as possible.
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>>86801652

Implying that anything in this shit show makes sense, name me one thing i beg you!
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>>86801160
With dragons, probably.
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>>86801160

They asked Greeks for tips
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>>86798625
Holy fuck DBZ fans are retarded.
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>>86800324
dude at least admit that all you do is speculating. The other guy is as well, but you being so adamant about something that you made up realy grinds my gears.
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>>86802333
tywin died on the shitter after being hit with a bolt, that makes sense.
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>>86799490
BLEACHED
L
E
A
C
H
E
D
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>>86796435
why would a literal god die from a short fall?
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>>86802730

I like how in this show one guys mortal wound is others guys measly scratch, its like real life man.
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>>86802616
this, for fucks sake

the comet was after the dragons come alive

in the books it is shown how stupid people add meaning to it like they will be the winning side, or eternal summer will come

it was just a fucking red comet

>fixed and unfixed magic
why the fuck did you make this shit up?

there's no such thing, it's just a low fantasy setting, majority of the people do not know that magic is true

in s3 the priest that resurrected beric said he did not believed in it, it just worked

the implication of this should be that the one god wants them to fight against the night king and gives them power

which still seems autistic
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>>86796435
Gandalfs resurrection and power increase is a key moment, shows that Eru is quite invested in Middle Earth and there is still some semblance of balance.

Plus it actually makes logical sense, the first White Wizard and head of the order on Middle Earth as appointed by Eru himself (Sauron) falls from grace, becomes corrupted and forsakes his calling, in the process voiding his authority. Gandalf proves himself worthy by standing up to another supernatural being of his power who's gone rougue (Durins Bane) and earns his place as the new White Wizard. Gandalf only gets Rez'd because there's a need for a new White Wizard to lead the order. Ironically dying is what proved his worthiness.

GRRM being the dumb fat fuck he is doesn't get that.
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>>86803304
>Eru is quite invested in Middle Earth
deus ex machina by definition

and therefore boring
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>>86803595
>deus ex machina is always 100% boring
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>>86797584
Keep in mind Jon is thinking of ghost as he bleeds out and adwd starts with a warging to avoid death scene. Grrm doesn't really deal in nuance.
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>>86796435
>remember watching lotr as a kid with my brother and being really sad when gandalf died
>next year we still miss gandalf but still watch the new movie because the adventure has to go on
>when we actually see him return we are both super excited
>turns out our mom new that he was gonna return but didn´t tell us so that we could be surprised
that hack knows nothing
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>>86797810
The zombies are not resurrected, they are reanimated corpses. They are puppets, not people.
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>>86796295
The fat fuck probably doesn't realize fans aren't afraid because of his characters but that he will bite the dust before he finishes the books.
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>>86796549
>that image's text just keeps going and going and going
saying too much just makes you sound dumb
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>>86796435
And now we have fucking side characters like Tormund are surrounded by thick plot armor. If D&D were writing season 1 Robert would have come back from the dead to save ned before he get's executed.

Martin needs to die for what he did to this show by not finishing the books.
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>>86796295
He means D&D are butchering his work.
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>>86804977
how so? did you read the books and believe kelly c was ever in danger or did you know that some deus ex bullshit would always save her?
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>>86796325
This fat fuck isn't writing anything
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>>86799490
man just likes some dark meat.
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>>86796295

That the show is fucking trash.
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>>86798137
lmao he does watch The Last Kingdom though, not surprising, since it's the better show

https://twitter.com/GRRMspeaking/status/895322573499543552
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>>86797860
>jon died
>the Cat that come back is Lady Stoneheart

so don't come with jon will be resurrected and everything will be fine

>quentyn died
don't say that his arc was meaningless becauae if he wouldn't die but tame the dragon the martells would still fight and he would be an important character

>jaime and brienne hanged by Lady Stoneheart

so suck a fuck you illiterate shit
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>>86798328
LADY STONEHEART
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>>86800598
Dance has entire chapters of filler who just serve to show how people see Danny. You don't need to waste 100 pages of some no one for that.
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>>86796729
Wrong the Walkers are back before dragons
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>>86801691
so you are implying that the elves and aragorn were in some german myth before?

no sarcasm intended
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>>86796435
>it's the GRRM completely misunderstands Tolkien chapter
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>>86804384
The left just can't meme. Instead of keeping their memes simple they project their feelings and their insecurities into them. Thus making them sound extremely butthurt.
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>>86807642

Elves have been mythical creatures way before Lord of the Rings but they had more in common with what we call fairies now.

Aragorn was an actual name in old english, as far as I'm aware.
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>>86796295
He stopped writing for the show after S4.
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>>86796435
>Gandalf
>the wizard famously based off Odin
>who is well known for the myth of him dying and coming back from the dead, gaining wisdom in the process
>he should have stayed dead
Why the fuck do people who know nothing about what they're talking about insist on commenting on it?
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>>86796295
>plot armor
>sansa
>arya the goblin
>jon snuh
>tyrion
>jaime
>cersei
>brienne
>daenyres fatgaryen
>grey worm
>missandei

betting good money that most of those fuckers will survive til it ends. they've been alive too long and some faggots in particular keep getting out of death for no apparent reason.
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>>86802785
wot?

Gandalf and the Balrog fell nearly 'to the center of the Earth', had a days long running battle in the tunnels, and then fucking battled up the endless stair to the top of Durin's tower where they went at it for another 2 days. He died from exhaustion after finally killing his foe.
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>>86798137
Umm wrong honey

http://ew.com/tv/2017/08/23/george-r-r-martin-watches-game-of-thrones/
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>>86796435
>Jon Snow dies
>gets brought back
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>>86808648
Brienne and Grey Worm are in the group for "emotional" sacrifice.
They're prominent enough that they'll hope you think it means some of the plot armoured ones might also die, but not characters people truly care about.
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>>86808766
that was the moment it all changed. he relinquished it. he's not in control anymore.
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>>86805272
>This fat fuck isn't writing anything

I think it's hilarious they're having to release sample chapters to try to convince people work is being done.
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>>86804808
>Martin needs to die for what he did to this show by not finishing the books.

Do you know how much of an entitled shit you sound?
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>>86802502
uhhh, can you please delete this? thats just bad writing. thanks.
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>>86799490
KANGZ
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The show and books have opposite problems. While the show approaches everything in surface-level depth, the show takes way too long to resolve plot points and spends too much time on build-up and world building. It has in retrospect made me appreciate the show's more straight-forward approach more.

Did we really need a whole book (AFFC) about secondary characters we didn't care about? Does anyone really find Sam more interesting despite GRRM devoting entire chapters to him? Did anyone find Asha more interesting despite GRRM devoting more chapters to her? Or Arianne? Or Brienne? They were meant to be secondary characters but GRRM instead thinks we like those characters enough to justify a POV. At this point he seems to love his characters more than his readers does which means he misses the mark on what matters.

People don't give a shit about more world building. They barely give a shit that GRRM forces in yet another throne contender (Aegon) and thus makes the story even slower to develop. Why? At this rate seven books will never be able to wrap up every loose end. So 8, 9 books? How long will that take? After a while you just get tired of waiting. You want to move on. The show provides that. GRRM fucked them over by robbing them of essential source material but atleast they recognize that every story must end within a reasonable time frame. GRRM doesn't realize we have lives of our own.
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The books are Harry Potter tier pleb shit and you should kill yourself if you enjoyed them.
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>>86802307
>I do think that sales of the books will only be helped by letting the show spread the word as long as possible.

> The books are the same as the show

“Well, I already saw the show, so I’ll read the books when I get around to them.”

Lost sales.

> The books are different then the show

“Damn, I wonder what’s different? I better go out and buy them.”

Increased sales.

Sure, bookfags will still buy the last two books even if they’re exactly the same as the retarded tv show but showfags won’t bother. On the other hand, if the books are released at the same time as the show, showfags are more likely to buy them, as they’re stupid people who are easily suckered by marketing and the publisher will want to ride the hype.
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>>86802898
> > fixed and unfixed magic
> why the fuck did you make this shit up?

Because it’s supported by the books.

The Wall is clearly magical, otherwise it would have melted a long time ago yet there hasn’t be functional magic in the world for at least 150 years (the death of the last Targaryen dragon) and the implication was that even before then, magic had been on a steep decline since the fall of Valyria, 400 years prior.
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>>86811546

Here you go anon, this may be more your type of story...
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>>86813405
>4 pocket books
>1 full sized book
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>>86811546
you could always skip through dull POV that were never going to be important.

If you read Brienne's adventure in AFFC for example in full then you have no one to blame but yourself.
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>>86797584
Losing some memories isn't a big deal.
And if your family get betrayed and killed, I think it's normal to get revenge
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>>86813405

The way I see it, if showfags are interested in the books at all, the first thing they'll ask is whether they're different. When they do that they first thing they'll hear is that it follows the show roughly, the same major events happen, but it's way, way more complex and involved.

Considering these are people who were willing to read several large fantasy novels in the first place I can't imagine that pitch turning many of them away.
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>>86796435
>how dare this accomplished writer and fantasy author have an opinion I don't agree with
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>>86801691
This is completely true, however, it pertains to literally any race, and moreso than it pertains to whites.
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>>86796295
He meant the following:

JON IS GOING TO DIE
DAENERYS IS GOING TO DIE

Tyrion will be king though, he's GRRM's self-insert
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>>86813839
Faceless Men also had magic. The eggs are also from Asshai so it's possible there's dragons in the east the whole time anyways.
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>>86796295

>we've all had those moments when your left arm feels sore for no real reason
>a throbbing pain, that slow moves up to your shoulder
>but you know it's not an infarction because you're only 45, and not morbidly obese
>I don't want my health to be that way, I want my heart to be afraid
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>>86796435
>shit talking Tolkien
This is why I don't watch GoT, no matter how much everyone begs me to.
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>>86817230
Likely true.
However, Jon is always saved through Deus-ex-machina
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>>86797584
Do they depict this in the show? I dont recall ever seeing a scene where berics steady loss of humanity is discussed.
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>>86808648
im betting only sansa, arya, tyrion and missendei survive
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>>86796295
release the new book already you fat fuck
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>>86797678
Even though i love him it should have been tormund. If he had sacrificed himself to save jon i probably would have cried.
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>>86797747
Im hoping his dissapointment in the show will motivate him to finish the books so his legacy isnt tainted.
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>>86817758
I think in the most recent episode they may mentioned something about it, when Beric and Jon were talking...but if they did it was very scant and forgettable.
Other than that, they never discuss it. Jon goes on with his life, and so does Beric.

>>86817827
He never will. Why would he? Most people were reading the books to know the story of the show. Now that the show and books have deviated so strongly, I highly doubt that anyone would bother.
Tubby made his money. He doesn't care
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>>86814031
>it took like 3 years for the paperback to finally release
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>>86796435
>he had a great death and the characters should have gone without him
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>>86800374
>fixed position
Remember, there was going to be a five year gap that he cut because even though most of the characters were in a place where a five year gap made sense, Stannis and the Others taking a five year break wouldn't (even though it very easily could have been explained as "late fall makes war in the north hard; Stannis took Winterfell and now is in a stalemate with the Boltons"). The fixed positions are just him getting everyone to where they would be after the five year gap that will really only be a two year gap now.
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>>86796435

This is why I hate Hollywood and Western genre fiction. Western normies are just discovering permadeath now like its a revolution, anime and manga were doing this 35 years ago and the Greeks were doing it 2800 years ago.
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>>86818450
This post is next level autism.
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>>86798452
>>86796435
t. anon who watches anime and defends fan pandering but when GRRM says otherwise its okay!
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>>86817844
He didn't even have to die (well, he would have if it was Tormund, since we already got a fakeout in the episode before that). But just putting another character under the ice immediately raises the stakes, because other characters CAN die.
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>>86818728
He is right though, it's the worst Hollywood trope.
>dangerous moment in the movie
>remember this is hollywood and the hero never dies
>get bored
It's bad writing
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>>86817827
You ever hear about how he writes? He writes for spurts then goes back and edits what he wrote the next day. It's the thing they try to teach you NOT to do at writing workshops because your book will end up taking years.
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>>86796295
>wants real threat in his fiction
>writes literal mary sues and marty stus
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>>86819211
He also has way too many plot threads going that it's a clusterfuck.
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>>86802502
thats not a castle
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>>86809749
Go back
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>>86796549
Fuck off i don't want niggers in my media.
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>>86796295
that dany won't be surrounded by 20 people
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>>86819211
>It's the thing they try to teach you NOT to do at writing workshops because your book will end up taking years.
lmao literally everyone does that
If you don't check out what you just wrote you'll end up with garbage.
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>>86796295
Hes got a point though. GRRRM is a visionary. Literary giant right now.
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>>86796435
Gandalf is a metaphor for Christ, fucking hell
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>>86796435
100% True facts right here
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>>86805932
D&D BTFO
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>>86796435
I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume this was somehow taken out of context. I imagine GRRM understands he has his universe and Tolkien had his. I don't think he's crazy. GRRM was just trying to share his philosophy in world building as a contrast to Tolkien's. The fact he is referencing it at all as something he is intentionally trying to be different from shows that he recognizes it as iconic. It's been done so well that in order to be different he has to use it as a point of reference to move away from in his world building process for fear of basically being an inferior Tolkien clone.
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>>86796455
Was Beric really an abomination? He kept forgetting more and feeling less connected to the world as he was resurrected again and again, but it's not like he became someone else entirely or needed to drink the blood of children to survive. If anything I took it as GRRM's coy way of implementing "experience loss" to resurrection in his story. In a fantasy game experience is a just a number to represent your strength, in his universe, you actually lose experience of who you are. I don't think it's a coincidence. Relative to dying, Beric's status was a small price to pay. I don't even remember him complaining about physical agony. If someone shot me in the head and stabbed me in the heart and then I woke back up but forgot where I lived or where I worked, it would be jarring but I'd get over it I think.
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>>86796295
>>86796325
Except this is bullshit even in the books. The meme that GRRM kills off lots of main characters is just that, a meme. And in fact he LOVES doing bullshit fake outs where you obviously know the character survived. He does it with Tyrion like 3 or 4 times alone.
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>>86822461
>He does it with Tyrion like 3 or 4 times alone.
no he doesn't
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>>86796295
This doesn't apply to GoT show seasons 4+. But it does apply to his books for the most part (except dany and tyrion) and is a good way to write characters. Make them vulnerable and a real part of the world. Not a protag first.
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>>86817230
>JON IS GOING TO DIE
>DAENERYS IS GOING TO DIE
>Tyrion will be king though, he's GRRM's self-insert

No, GRRM isn’t an edgy jr.high kid and won't be killing off two of the three main characters.

Jon and Daenerys will end up getting married before or after defeating the Others and while Jon might die in battle against them, it won’t be until after he has impregnated Daenerys.
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>>86823183
>being this retarded
lmao
Jaime is one of the main characters, not Jon, Jon is just autism
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>>86817339
> The eggs are also from Asshai so it's possible there's dragons in the east the whole time anyways.

That’s what Illyrio claims at least, though he has no way of really knowing where they’re from and I suspect he (and Varys) didn’t think they were real in the first place, otherwise why give them to Daenerys, who (along with Viserys) was intended to be a moving target for Robert’s rage, taking the heat off Aegon the Reconqueror.

And I doubt there were any dragons anywhere, as word of them would have eventually gotten around after 500 years.
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>>86799490
>Wyman Manderlay vaycays in the Summer Isles
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>>86817784
> Sansa
> surviving

Pick one.

She going to take the blame for Littlefinger's machinations and the death of Sweetrobin Arryn.
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>>86823183
>No, GRRM isn’t an edgy jr.high kid
It's like you've never read him
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>>86796295
the show runners never saw this while thinking of arya
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>>86796549
>its another liberal wall of text meme
Christ almighty. Omit needless words.
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>>86798616
>muh /pol/
The obsession is real
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>>86808763
fake news
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>>86798337
yeah, and Westeros will be culturally enriched by Dothraki seed for centuries and their evil colonialistic white ways be forgotten under the benevolent rule of female figures of authority that are all indebted to the (((Iron Bank)))
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>>86821262
>Was Beric really an abomination?

My theory is that R’hllorian resurrection magic isn’t real resurrection. The person’s soul or spirit is still dead (or whatever happens to souls) and only the physical body is reanimated, with the reanimated brain acting as a kinda corrupted ROM drive and person being essentially a zombified robot.

Beric Dondarion was quickly resurrected by Thoros and this meant a lot of his ROM drive was intact, while Catelyn was a dead for days before Beric sacrificed himself to resurrect her and thus why she’s so fucked up mentally.

On the other hand, when Melisandre resurrects Jon in the next book, his soul/spirit will have been safe the whole time due to him unintentionally warging into Ghost so when his body comes back to life, (surprising the shit out of Melisandre) it will return to his physically resurrected body intact and he’ll be more or less the same.
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>>86824242
>The person’s soul or spirit
GRRM is an atheist, take that soul shit elsewhere.
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>>86824107
>whining about communism in a game of thrones thread
>not /pol/
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>>86824380
??? this is a grrm thread

not even him but you have to go back
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