Quote Originally Posted by War Machine Dawg View Post
Fat Bastard doesn't give a damn. He's too busy raking in the cash from the TV show and doing everything except writing the books. And it's his own f'n fault he hasn't stayed ahead of the show. When you take a 10-15 year hiatus between books, the obsessed fans will analyze every damn word and bit of punctuation. That's why R + L = J was an awful secret. Fat Bastard started something he wasn't that interested in finishing.

As for the book/tv thing, we've discussed this 100 times. It's been made abundantly clear by both Fat Bastard and the producers that the books and tv have diverged significantly. They're getting to the same endgame, but "how" they get their is fairly different. I linked an article discussing that in this thread a few pages back. I think the grave theory is more likely to happen in the books than on TV, and I'm good with that. Howland could pop up in the TV show to tell "Jon" or he could find out from Bran.

Here's a great article about GRRM asking Stephen King how he writes so fast. King tells Fat Bastard: Just write. Make yourself do it. Fat Bastard is too lazy to comprehend the idea you have to force yourself to write.
I think GRRM has so many things he likes to do that the books weren't "the most important thing" for him. I think this season was the first one he didn't write an episode. He usually wrote 1 or 2 episodes a season and it was usually one of the most important episodes. It seems like I read once that Stephen King sits down and writes something pretty much every day whether it is good or just shit to be thrown away. It is like a muscle that the more you use it, the faster it is.

It will be interesting to read the books and see if GRRM tries to come up with something just to make it different. I know he has said he is doing something in the books that the show can't do since the person is dead in the show. I am just ready for the books since I am tired of just talking in circles about the show. I do wish BulldogBear would watch the show since he has great theories. I started to read the books again but I just can't seem to stick with it. Those first books seem to drag on forever.