Legend, thank you

If GRRM and HBO fall out like that, it’s bad news for any of the spinoffs they have planned.

But good news for the fans if HBO doesn't really care much beyond making a franchise out of this world

This man GRRM don't care about f***ing up the bag at all

nah bro c'mon i was supposed to start dis once it was over then hbo ruins it too

reddit.com/r/HouseOfTheDragon/comments/1f9jixq/xiran_jay_zhao_author_and_close_friend_of_grrm

Can someone post Martins rant without spoiler

the problem with adaptations is even if the studio doesn't force them to make changes, showrunners will always want to feel like they did something

its human nature to feel bad for simply copying someone else's work 1:1

This was basically my exact reaction for almost all of season 2

I do understand some of the complaints and critiques though, but overall I’m still really enjoying the show

Yeah I get the critiques, especially from GRRM, still enjoyed it overall. The worst part is HBO literally cutting 2 f***ing episodes from the season resulting in an anticlimactic ending.

Internet's went double on the feeding frenzy now that George gave them the greenlight to s*** on the show though and it's

reddit.com/r/HOTDGreens/comments/1f9l7z5/elio_garcia_cowriter_of_the_world_of_ice_and_fire

"To zoom out a bit, I think we have to view this matter with a wider lens, looking at the history of how things have gone with HBO. Lets leave GoT's finale aside, as I agree with many (speculating here!) that George did not say anything because of his own feeling that he was partially to blame due to not having finished the series.

Concurrent with the last season, HBO developed a number of potential successors. It went forward with the extremely expensive pilot called Bloodmoon, despite George having expressed strong reservations, and it failed to launch. HBO then pivoted to have George much more involved, trusting his sense of what could work and what couldn't from his world. The Dance was his own personal pitch, he hand-picked an experienced show runner and screenwriter who was an acquaintance and who was deeply invested in the books (Condal's not lying about having been a fan of the books since 2000 or 2001, he's more than established his bonafides on that score based on our conversations), and George played a deep role in developing and breaking that first season with Condal and his mini-writers room (which included Ti Mikkel, one of George's assistants, and a writer for S2). He was integral to this show going forward and getting picked up straight to series. He has invested a good deal in it.

All along, though, he has not actually had any real creative control, because of the contract when he sold the rights to ASoIaF to HBO. Any say he has had after the show got picked up has, essentially, been a courtesy. A courtesy well-attended to by Condal, in the first season. And seemingly at the S2 writer's room, which George attended and spoke positively about. But something changed after that, it seems, in the process of writing and producing the second season. To what degree this relates to HBO cutting two episodes or otherwise tightening budget, and to what degree it relates to narrative choices that Condal and his other writer-producers are making above and beyond addressing those budgetary/production challenges, is something only George and the writers really know."

George still taking shots

Wait wait. How many books are left to drop

The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring from the main series

Fire & Blood sequel (Blood & Fire, apparently, though I can see consumers being confused as hell by that)

However many more Knight of the Seven Kingdoms novellas he has in the tuck

Focus on WOW you f***ing geezer