tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-613387965721174471.post8698498963333394476..comments2024-03-04T02:03:29.708-05:00Comments on the Wood between Worlds: The Shaggydog Theory: Why George R. R. Martin Doesn't Want to Finish his Song of Ice and Fire SeriesReecehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10691425406901685427noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-613387965721174471.post-46820377791223392502022-04-09T22:42:52.921-04:002022-04-09T22:42:52.921-04:00Martin really should have stayed as an editor / co...Martin really should have stayed as an editor / contributor of anthologies like Wild Cards. It's his natural level. A combination of big publishing and the streaming / cable media decided to give him the celebrity author treatment, with mixed results.<br /><br />Although I enjoy (re)watching Game of Thrones its success is as much due to the puerile and decadently unsatisfying nature of most Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08134846387707922420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-613387965721174471.post-61293924445326507612022-02-06T19:06:17.726-05:002022-02-06T19:06:17.726-05:00Thanks Neric! I haven't even watched the show...Thanks Neric! I haven't even watched the show since the Blackwater episode. I only tuned back in to see the Red Wedding (which was changed to ruin the "young wolf" theory).<br /><br />I used to spend tons of time and mental energy dissecting and approving theories on what's going to happen, until I realized.... nothing happens. The prophecy in the human-skin bound book Reecehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10691425406901685427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-613387965721174471.post-19392679056468634872022-02-06T18:58:55.956-05:002022-02-06T18:58:55.956-05:00Apologies to Unknown, your comment got stuck in sp...Apologies to Unknown, your comment got stuck in spam for some reasonReecehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10691425406901685427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-613387965721174471.post-18066751987819337512022-01-30T01:01:28.342-05:002022-01-30T01:01:28.342-05:00Your analysis was spot on! You discovered the form...Your analysis was spot on! You discovered the formula. This is the complete explanation of everything that everyone was wondering about for all those years. Where is your "See, I told you!"-posting? <br /><br />Could it get more anticlimatic than the last two seasons? The Night King turned out to be not that shaggy after all.Could there be a more "not that shaggy" king than Nerichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16580968376153676827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-613387965721174471.post-85767467107058780822022-01-29T21:50:22.846-05:002022-01-29T21:50:22.846-05:00So he won't finish his books so he won't h...So he won't finish his books so he won't have to deal with the backlash. Yet he will let someone else give a happy ending? Although he stated when he dies, he wants notes destroyed and the story dies with him. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00049895020534568267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-613387965721174471.post-86370429844953276172020-01-21T14:33:30.770-05:002020-01-21T14:33:30.770-05:00I love your blog, I've been reading it since t...I love your blog, I've been reading it since the Berenstein/Berenstain post my friend sent to me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-613387965721174471.post-31662951097641274572019-05-19T19:24:56.821-04:002019-05-19T19:24:56.821-04:00I will note that you wrote those comments before t...I will note that you wrote those comments before the series finale.Reecehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10691425406901685427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-613387965721174471.post-57528055546081403522019-05-08T23:42:49.432-04:002019-05-08T23:42:49.432-04:00Also, you think you know where he got his inspirat...Also, you think you know where he got his inspiration from but he also was inspired by the War of the Roses. And the fact he grew up in Jersey and could see the ships from other countries come sailing in with the different flags of nations at the mast. Look up the names of the key players in the War of the Roses. And his greatest inspiration was being unable to make Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time original asoiaf nerdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13654707917100630685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-613387965721174471.post-73976006968382831322019-05-08T23:39:42.911-04:002019-05-08T23:39:42.911-04:00You really don’t know George RR Martin as well as ...You really don’t know George RR Martin as well as you think to brazenly state that ASOIAF is his first foray into fantasy. original asoiaf nerdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13654707917100630685noreply@blogger.com