From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid
On Sat, 25 Oct 2025 20:24:10 -0500, Lynn McGuire
wrote:
>On 10/25/2025 8:00 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
>> On Wed, 22 Oct 2025 10:41:24 GMT, "Blueshirt"
>> wrote:
>>
>>>> I've been binge watching Game Of Thrones all day on HBO.
>>>> It is obviously not set on Earth. It is incredibly brutal.
>>>> I wonder how true it is to “Songs Of Ice And Fire�? ?
>>>
>>> The first few seasons of Game of Thrones were very faithful
>>> to the books. I think after season six it was then unpublished
>>> stuff (outlines) by George R.R. Martin and original material
>>> that was used to tell the story.
>>
>> Did GRRM ever complete the series? I haven't heard it and figure I
>> would have if it had so assume otherwise.
>>
>> It was claimed at the time that the last season of the show made use
>> of unpublished manuscripts from the author. though I'd be darned how
>> one could prove/disprove this assertion.
>
>GRRM is sitting on book #6. And he is 77 years old.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Winds_of_Winter
>
>The story is that he was giving the unpublished book outlines to the
>directors. And then he would watch the show and change his mind for the
>books before he wrote them.
Well, /that/ is an uncommon (not necessarily unique) approach to the
difference between book and screen, I must say.
Still, it would keep them from being mistaken for novelizations.
>And there is the latest sayings:
>
>https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/1o5r9ux/spoilers_main_
eorge_r_r_martin_addresses/
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
|
