I’ve always found industry contempt for animation as stupefying as film makers who consider music to be an afterthought.

That category has, sadly, become little more than an advertisement for the latest Disney movie, which are mostly children’s movies. It’s a complete lack of imagination from the Academy to fail to recognize the innovation happening in the animation sphere, and it’s, sadly, part of a larger trend of lack of appreciation…

...what?

The immediate cancelation of Tuca and Birtie comes to mind. Bojack fortunately landed during the Golden Age of Netfix (2011-15) when Netfix actually cared about maintaining a lower number of higher quality shows year after year. Sometime between 2016-18 they adopted their current ‘greenlight everything, but for only on…

Whaaaaat. I finally had the chance to watch this last week and loved it - it’s sense of mood and atmosphere were fantastic.

Books 4 and 5 - which are storywise essentially a one big unedited and unfinished book - where supposed to be one book that would take place 5 years after the events of the third book, to allow children characters to grow up. GRRM couldn’t write it because he was constantly adding flashbacks, which is why he scrapped…

But we’re finally at the end of planned gap between books 3 and (the original) 4! We’re so close to finding out what was meant to happen next after the book we read...

What, you aren’t just fascinated by “...and then there was King Aelon III, who married his sister and was killed by a dragon, and he was succeeded by King Jaemaerys VIII, who married his niece, went mad, and threw himself off a cliff, so he was succeeded by King Rhaeghoyl II, who was married to his second cousin but…

As it happens, after waiting more than a decade I no longer care about The Winds of Winter, so happily he doesn’t have to feel sorry for me.

it was absolutely 100% his ending, even if it was just a general outline of how things would play out.

My sympathy at this point lies with his editors. There is nothing more frustrating and unprofessional to an editor than a writer who won’t deliver pages. Yes, the creative process can take time, but at this point, it’s beyond that for GRRM. It’s not just that he’s a ponderously slow writer (which he is). He’s clearly…

Just end it with tits on dragons. Give the people what they want.

Depends on what you mean. The major plot points? Yeah, I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re the same or mostly the same. The problem with the last 2+ seasons of the show wasn’t those major plot points; it was how they were executed. Dany conquering King’s Landing and ascending to the throne? Great! Her breaking bad and…

He himself has responded* to concerns that he won’t finish by saying that Tolkien never finished the Silmarillion, Dickens never finished Edwin Drood, Fitzgerald never finished The Last Tycoon and Peake never finished Titus Alone (that one was actually published in 1959, whereas Peake himself died in 1968, so he might…

It’s the literary equivalent of Zeno’s “Dichotomy Paradox” - every book only gets you half-way closer to the end, so there’s always another one needing to be written, even as the ending never seems to get any closer.

Just imagine a big fight in a field with dragons and shit. How hard is it?

Here’s the thing about prequels, people know how the story ends.

The big difference between Winds of Winter and these tv shows is... the tv shows don’t depend on GRRM doing anything more than signing off in order to get made. Which is how Game of Thrones got finished, even if it wasn’t in a satisfactory manner. If GRRM asked his former assistant Ty Franck to help him finish his…

Just admit you lost interest and aren’t going to finish the series. It would be less disappointing. Its never going to be done, its been more then a decade, I don’t even want it anymore.  Last two books kinda sucked and I have no reason to assume the quality of a finished book 6 would be worth the wait.  I used to be…

The show also works because it takes the character the show is named after “The Peacemaker” and actually uses him unlike Daredevil or Boba Fett which just spins off into nonsensical side character shenanigans.