Nope! I'm going to be honest and complementary with my grandkids: "When I was your age, we were ignorant and naive of just how corrupt and terrible the world and its' ruling class was, but we didn't care, we were all amoral fuckheads listening to really shitty club music about taking selfies, and killing our…

Man, am I glad that, by the time I reach his age, there won't be any "good old days" and "old fashioned values" to look back on and get all hagiographical about.

God, maybe the time jump would've been better in the long run; if only to keep him from burning himself writing. It'd be like trying to run from Jason Voorhees and purposely clamping a bear trap to your foot.

*sigh* Remember when it actually required some serious cognitive gymnastics to connect any American Administration to that argument?
Those were the days.

Not going to invoke Godwin's Law but…Yeah, I used to wonder how it was possible. too, until this administration.

Well, he needs a fallback plan on the very slim chance his main client ends up buying a time share in the Leavenworth area.

He looks like DeNiro in that Bernie Madoff movie.

*whimper*

Honestly, that's why I've never been as hardcore into the series as some. While I'm aware of, and respect his desire to not have a line of clear "good" and "bad," when it comes to any character's alignment, there's only so much gray you can paint with before it becomes too dark to see anything, y'know? I don't mind…

What the actual fuck with this fucking guy?

That's a really good descriptor of a lot of his work, for better or worse. And, like I've heard about a few books in the Wheel of Time, "A Feast For Crows," or hell, even "A Dance With Dragons" is a book you could ultimately ignore or skim and lose almost nothing of the overall plot. For a series that is supposed to…

Well, I know he said he took inspiration from history, like all the politics and fighting from the Wars of the Roses, and other dynastic sagas, and that he PLANNED for the books to be tomes, with all he was going to cram in. But then the whole thing starts off with ice zombies; so there's a bit of a track-jump in…

I still maintain the idea that the series began as more a straight-up fantasy, then GRRM got way into the whole political aspect of things, and by the time that became the driving force, he realized he had a whole bunch of fantastical stuff in the background he didn't know what to do with, anymore.

And we should all be able to do that, so well.

True, but his tone and language is still very unprofessional. Even when you're completely in the right, and no matter the anger you may feel you don't help your case by literally cussing out your bosses over email, (and, semantics aside, if someone other than you has the power to personally print out and/or forward…

Not gonna lie. I almost choked on a cookie, just now.

*clap* not treasonous!
*clap* not treasonous!
*clap* not treasonous!
And Bingo was his name-o!

"Leave the gun. Take the pirogis.".

Looking back over my previous statements, I feel bad for the kneejerk response; it wasn't well thought-out, or contribute to the discussion. Getting screwed over by Hollywood's infamous "creative accounting " is a terrible and unjust thing, especially when you've put your blood sweat and tears into a project. If…

NO-ONE was as awesome as His Excellency, Norton I.