I assume his wife will be in charge of his estate, and she knows he doesn’t want anyone else finishing it. Eventually it will be in the public domain, at which point there will be no more distinction between official vs unofficial sequels by other authors.

Perhaps capital-P Progressive should be reserved for proper nouns, like the Progressive Party which nominated Teddy Roosevelt as a third party presidential candidate, or the later parties of the same name which nominated Bob La Follette & Henry A. Wallace. I will remind you that the quote I responded to said

I would like to spite Avatar, but I also want to spite superhero movies. I’m just too spiteful for your calculus.

GRRM says no one else will be permitted to finish it.

I neither love nor hate this theory. Therefore your headline is a LIE, you should resign your position immediately in favor if something outside journalism, and the AV Club should profusely apologize for falling short of the standard of accuracy set by The Onion. Good day to you, sirs.

Are you completely unfamiliar with the original Progressive movement? Many of them were rather explicit that the labor legislation they were pushing would reserve jobs for able-bodied white men, which they believed would have eugenic benefits. Woodrow Wilson was a noted Progressive who also segregated D.C. New Orleans…

Oberyn was called the Red Viper due to his use of poison, which is what he used against the Mountain. I don’t think the Hound is going to use the same trick, but I could be wrong.

Ghost is a direwolf, not a domesticated dog.

Tormund said he was heading north of the wall after the winter storms. But winter lasts YEARS in that world.

What “progressivism” means changes with the times.

I thought all the changes made for the movie were bad. Although I guess it made certain things more explicit, whereas my skepticism of Sapir-Whorf meant when I read the story I thought the scifi angle was just that the linguistic theory was true and caused the narrator to phrase things oddly rather than something more…

At this point I’d prefer funny & corny to the bad writing we’re getting.

He already told Cat & Brienne about it.

It will be hard to kill the Mountain if the Mountain kills him first.

Since when does Jon listen to good advice? He ignores Dany’s for no good reason here.

I haven’t seen the video you’re referring to, but I could see the hostage thinking they were there to be threatened rather than killed.

With the US & Soviet Union against them, the Axis powers were seriously outmatched. There was a time when it was just the UK holding out against them, but even then the Royal Navy was able to keep the Kriegsmarine bottled up. Elsewhere when discussing Confederate I brought up David Simon’s upcoming adaptation of “The…

What would that make David Simon for adapting Philip Roth’s “The Plot Against America”?

Nope, Bran is the only warg among the Starks on the show.

Rhaegal was a chess piece in the Last War, but I don’t think Missandei qualifies. The latter is more of a fridging to motivate Daenerys.