Emilia Clarke tried to join a franchise with Solo, but the poor reception to that movie killed that one.
I’m not seeing that. Dinklage will continue to be the go to actor for dwarf characters, and has sometimes gotten roles that weren’t specified for dwarfs. There just aren’t a huge number of such roles. He probably has exactly as much work as he wants. Coster-Waldau has seven projects listed on IMDB since the end of Game of Thrones two years ago. Lena Headey has seven, Iain Glen has eleven, Alfie Allen has seven, and Gwendoline Christie has five. I don’t know how significant the roles are, but they are getting work, and their careers haven’t crashed, especially since I’m sure there are a lot fewer projects available currently due to the pandemic.
He’s Batman!!
Kit Harington has been less active, but that’s because in 2019 he checked into a mental health facility for personal reasons. Nonetheless, he’s joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Eternals due out this year.
Being in a highly successful series like Game of Thrones is going to get you work, no matter how people might have felt about the ending.
And no one is blaming the actors for what happened.
Though, as noted, HBO was willing to give them those seasons. The issue is that the show runners didn’t want to do them. It seemed by that point they tired of characterization and just wanted spectacle.
It’s been noted several times that HBO was more than willing to pay for more episodes. That wasn’t Benioff and Weiss’s problem to consider.
I think I’m in line with the majority in this thread. I’m still excited for the books, albeit less so now due to both the long wait and the awful final seasons of the show. I also doubt George lives to finish it though I do expect to get Winds before he kicks it. Winds may well be a bit of a mess due to the constant rewriting and toxic influence of the show’s writing which will be impossible for George to block out entirely.
The show made me look forward to the books more, not less. The ending of the show was so, so, so soul-crushingly bad that I’d like the books to cleanse my palette. Of course, GRRM will probably crush my soul in a different way, but I’m convinced it has to be better.
I’m still somewhat enthusiastic for the books partly because I never watched the series. And since it ended so badly I’m unlikely to ever watch the series at this point.
If nothing else at least Martin now knows what not to do.
Meh…it’s worth watching. The last two seasons were terrible, it you watched and stopped right when they run out of book story it’s a pretty great and iconic show. The first 3 or 4 seasons are some of the best TV ever made.
Robert Jordan’s series may well be different given that it was completed by other writers after the original author’s death. That allows for some artistic licence, although you’d hope that they would stick to the original writing style. I don’t know if Jordan left a plan for the completion of the story either, I remember reading a few of the books but I gave up on it after about seven of them!
I believe he went over everything with Sanderson and left copious notes. I know some things were vague and BS did his own thing, but there were guidelines and he consulted with RJ’s widow Harriet as well. And, unlike D&D, he seemed to listen to RJ instead of just doing whatever because it made for spectacle. A lot of people say they can tell where RJ leaves off and BS begins, but I can’t.
I got into Wheel of Time because GRRM said it was one of his favorites. I hope the show does well. It’ll be an interesting compare and contrast. A lot of people are going to be losing their shit that WoT copied ASOIAF when really GRRM used a lot of common tropes and WoT was written first.
GRRM has said that he doesn’t intend to hand over the story to anyone, and in effect, he will write it because he’s going to live forever (extrapolating him to be over a hundred when finishing the final novel, if he gets a move on with this one).
I guess his wife could allow someone to take over after his death, but there’s a decent chance he’s not a fan of him helping in advance, or someone rooting about his notes and stuff like Tolkien’s son did.
I’m hoping if things went this way, then my favourite posited twist will make it.
Jon Snow is the true born son of Ned Stark, him having been married when he got Ashara Dayne pregnant, before his older brother was killed. Due to political alliances, that marriage was hidden and Catelyn was married without her knowledge of the first marriage. This means all the other starks are bastards and have no claim to Winterfell. Littlefinger found this out, and helped Catelyn send Ned to his death in Kings Landing to keep it quiet. The son of Rhaegar and Lyanna is Aegon, invading the land.
I could buy all of that except the part in which Catelyn is a knowing conspirator with Littlefinger. She has been a point-of-view character and it would be too much of a cheap twist to buy.
Oh there is an extensive set of videos on the wordings of those POVs, and how there is something not right about them. I think they are from the Order of the Green Hand.
You sure it isn’t from the Order of 'Way Out of Left Field?
My experience has been:
- watched most of the show (seasons 1-6) then
- reading/listening to the audio books
- (once finished) will watch seasons 7 & 8 (I’ve had so many people tell me to just skip these entirely, I’ve put them off. But I will have to watch them just to satisfy my curiosity).
I voted for watch the show first, then read (although the audio books are fantastic - extremely well done) the books is that it was really nice to have faces to put to the characters as I went through the books. There are so many characters in so many story lines, that I doubt I could keep track if I’d just read the books. As always there were differences between the characters’ descriptions and the actors chosen to play them, but still I could “see” these characters while reading the stories.
I am almost finished with the 5th book, “Dance with Dragons”, and I have to say it is not as enjoyable as the others. The pacing seems more dragged out - a lot of time following characters in transit somewhere, with not a whole lot going on. And it seems even more backstory - back to the history of the world even. I could kind of see why the makers of the show decided to take the stories/characters in a different direction.
I can hardly wait for hundreds of pages more where nothing particularly happens. Maybe we can get another interminable boat ride with some throwaway charcters.
Yeah, sure, though it has been referred to as a “cheap twist” up there, which infers someone thinks it’s an obvious one.
His writing style before has left all of his twists with the information there to see the twist in advance. But a lot of information which will never be relevant. His way of writing.
I guess leaving ten years between novels allows such left field shots to get developed fully.
It would give a different perspective on the character who was left out the TV series, LS.