At the height of Woke as well.
Kinda funny how much the showrunners fumbled that bag. Anyway Knight of the seven kingdoms is pretty good
At the height of Woke as well.
Kinda funny how much the showrunners fumbled that bag. Anyway Knight of the seven kingdoms is pretty good
The books are extremely well written. GRRM writes a stream of conscious interior style of multiple different point-of-view characters and they are all extremely distinct and complex and consistent. The worldbuilding is also much more intricate and vast, you’ll either have to do multiple re-reads or watch videos or read forum posts to truly get all of the meanings and subtexts and connections and hidden references and symbols. It’s honestly an absurd masterpiece already even unfinished. The audiobooks of the first 3 read by Roy Dotrice are excellent as well.
Till season 6 of the show I too was of the same opinion. Just imagining how amazing all the storylines could potentially turn out would get me sooo hyped. I’ve read many fantasy books and shows, with Wheel of Time being my favorite rn (tied with Curse of the Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold) but this is after I watched GoT die in the last 2 seasons. If you asked me at S6, it would be my favorite series ever. So I’m excited to feel that hype again with the books if what you’re saying is true.
Btw, do you think Dany’s and Jaime’s arcs (others as well) in the show are how the books are projected to have them turn out as well? Cuz I remember hearing that D&D got the bullet points about the ending and character arcs from GRRM himself. Is that true or is GRRM’s vision for the arcs and the ending really different from what the show gave us?
Spoilers All, but much of this is not yet happened in the books but is educated conjecture based on the World of Ice and Fire and the myths and legends of westeros and the themes of the story and character arcs:
Jaime is not going to SA cersei, undo all of his character growth and then die lovingly in Cersei’s arms, no. This is a ridiculous and stupid undoing of his character arc. He may actually murder Cersei himself to fulfill the Valonqar prophecy (the prophecy Cersei had about being strangled by her little brother, she always assumed it to be Tyrion but she’s the elder twin).
Dany will also not go mad and burn the smallfolk and be murderered by Jon. That is also ridiculous.
It’s hard to discuss the ending of the books relative to the show because there’s many characters and plotlines that were omitted, such as Young Griff aka Fake Aegon aka the Mummer’s Dragon aka the 6th Blackfyre Rebellion. The Euron plotline being another major casualty as he is the major villain for the final part of the story and WAY better in the books. He is attempting to marry Dany and steal one of her dragons, he sent his brute brother with a dragon-binding horn to go blow the horn and use the Greyjoy fleet to pick her and her army up from Meereen. Euron will be calling down the red comet at Old Town, this is the most heavily foreshadowed event in the entire series. It’s how long nights happen, massive extinction level meteors crashing into the earth. This has been done before, by the Children of the Forest (The Hammer of the Waters that broke the arm of Dorne) and by the Bloodstone Emperor (the original Azor Ahai).
There’s so much cut from the show the endings cannot even be compared. Euron and Young Griff’s plots are heavily intertwined with Dany’s plot so how can I even begin to describe how it will differ.
Jon’s story will also be much different, he will be resurrected (much more wolflike as he has merged with ghost during his death) but possibly by the white walkers and not by Melisandre. There is precedence for sentient cold wighting in the character of Coldhands. Either way, I believe he is the Night King. He is who the white walkers have been searching for, testing every night’s watchmen they come across to. The white walkers in the book do not have a “Night King” like the show has, they are instead looking for a leader, they are more ghost-like creatures that have language and cruel laughter and who have weird rituals to test the people they come across. The white walkers were created during the first long night by Azor Ahai/The Bloodstone Emperor invading the Weirwood trees. Their leaves changed from green to red, and the humans moved into the trees and became the old gods (gaining near omniscience but becoming unmoored from time), while the white walkers began appearing outside of the trees. ‘Ghosts who emerged from the wood’ is the first description of them given, and it is their nature. They are the evicted spirits of the trees, or the projected old gods, vengeful and hungry ghosts. Jon’s story will be to right this wrong and to return the white walkers to their home and basically “kill” the old gods. He will be seen as a traitor to humanity as he marches the white walkers through the wall (like he did the wildlings, and was seen as a traitor) and to the God’s Eye, where there are still green-leafed Weirwood trees that are uncorrupted.
Dany will likely help Jon in saving the world, likely giving him one of her dragons, and she will likely be reviled in some way by many of the lords who instead side with fake Aegon (Illyrio’s son with Serra, a Lysene maiden of Blackfyre/Targaryen descent). She may accidentally set off a cache of wildfire by dragonfire in King’s Landing and thus be seen as a tyrant or murderer, but she would never purposefully kill civilians for no reason. That’s not her character. Her role in saving the world is going to do more with dealing with Euron I think, as he will steal the 3rd dragon. She will have go to confront the “Night’s King” Jon who is marching an undead army south and have to realize that he is actually the good guy, and she will have to confront the “Azor Ahai” savior Euron Greyjoy who is calling down a meteor like the original and realize he is evil. She will have to chose between the two them and see through the lies.