Posted on 05/19/2013 12:57:25 PM PDT by OddLane
Were only halfway through the season, and its only May, but its already hard for me to imagine any show topping Game of Thrones on my 2013 year-end best-of list. There are more innovative and original series, but none that satisfies on so many levels, or that juggles so much plot and so many characters with the appearance of ease.
Since HBOs blockbuster adaptation of George R.R. Martins fiction debuted in 2011, many have lodged complaints about the shows racial stereotypes and simplistic sexual dynamicsand rightly so; Thrones was a problematic series and still is, despite course corrections that suggest showrunners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss heard their critics. Beyond that, however, the show doesnt get enough credit. Nearly a decade after Peter Jackson won Oscars for a film series about wizards and hobbits, fantasy is still seen as disreputable nerd bait rather than a legitimate mainstream genre.
That should change this year, and if it doesnt, fans can cry foul.
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I had read an article somewhere recently, I believe it was an interview with him just prior to season three coming out.
It was in video form, and I recall the interviewer asking him something along the lines of people are worried that you aren’t getting any younger and are worried that about the last books being finished, to which he replied not to worry, he is working with 2 co-authors on them.
Of course I cannot find that video, otherwise I would link it. Nor can I find any other reference to co authors as I google the subject.
One of the things that struck me as to how well planned out the books are is that in Game of Thrones, when Arya had made her way down into the bowels of King’s Landing, she came across two shadowy men discussing vaguely their involvement in some yet to be revealed plot. But after reading book 5 and then reading book 1 again, the plot they are discussing is the exact same one those same to men set in motion in book 5 regarding a certain prince.
And then of course there are various visions and dreams that directly reference future key events and allude to which characters will soon be no more, such as when Theon was dreaming that he was eating at a table with the dead, and among those dead were...not to mention Danaerys’ journey through the tower of the undying where she saw a certain person and that person’s eventual gruesome fate.
So I do not get the impression that he is sort of writing as he goes, but rather following a prebuilt outline, but certainly filling in the find details as he writes.
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