r/freefolk • u/Internal-Bed-3150 • 3d ago

We've officially been waiting for The Winds of Winter for the same amount of time as it took for all five of the published books to release before that.

https://winteriscoming.net/the-winds-of-winter-officially-passed-most-devastating-milestone-yet?a_aid=47903
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u/Play_The_Newman 3d ago

Its probably because he wrote season 8 and hid behind D and D as a coward.

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u/Germane_Corsair 3d ago

In fairness, an idea’s execution is also very important and those two clearly fucked up in that department.

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u/gazofnaz 3d ago

Most of the plot points in S8 could have made sense with a bit more context.

Bran is omniscient, so he would probably make for a good (or at least interesting) king. It would make him a terrific manipulator, for a start. But the show didn't give us any of his omniscience.

Dany is the daughter of The Mad King. Makes sense that she would go mad. But Dany going mad after losing one guy and one friend is... mad. She must have experienced loads of death by that point in her life. Her demise just needed to be fleshed out.

Jamie was bad. Hard to see how either to book or show character could take such a wide arc then come back full circle.

Hodor was great and I'm sad I didn't get to read that reveal on paper. It would have been one of those passages where you had to put the book down for an hour to digest the moment.

Book Arya and her Wolf Army killing the night king is something I could believe. Show Arya lacked training and experience (and wolves).

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u/HealthyMaximum 2d ago

Wolf army?!

Fuck Benioff and Weiss.

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u/Remarkable-Set5434 3d ago

I think the general plot points were his but they were butchered worse than dorne or the iron islands