this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2024
130 points (85.7% liked)

Science Fiction

13608 readers
2 users here now

Welcome to /c/ScienceFiction

December book club canceled. Short stories instead!

We are a community for discussing all things Science Fiction. We want this to be a place for members to discuss and share everything they love about Science Fiction, whether that be books, movies, TV shows and more. Please feel free to take part and help our community grow.

  1. Be civil: disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally insult others.
  2. Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, ableist, or advocating violence will be removed.
  3. Spam, self promotion, trolling, and bots are not allowed
  4. Put (Spoilers) in the title of your post if you anticipate spoilers.
  5. Please use spoiler tags whenever commenting a spoiler in a non-spoiler thread.

Lemmy World Rules

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Well, if they just stick to adapting the books (and to my knowledge the story is finished) I'm OK with it. With GoT the problem was mostly when the source material was over, till then they did a good job adapting the story.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I agree, if they're good at one thing it's adaptations of existing stories. They botched the last season of GoT, but at least they wrote something in that time. GRRM still hasn't gotten that far

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

GRRM has probably written and rewritten The Winds of Winter a dozen times at this point. I bet the word count is higher than everything he wrote for the rest of the series combined, if you count everything written and deleted.

Honestly, with his process we're lucky we saw A Dance of Dragons at all.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

And it's still unpublished 13 years later. So why does everyone think D&D could have done half as much in a year and a half's time?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

The problem with GoT is the same as with all productions where they constantly escalate with very little character building. There's nowhere to go, so inevitably when they do try and tie all things together there's nothing of substance and it's just a huge letdown.