It’s honestly an absurd masterpiece already even unfinished

Till season 6 of the show I too was of the same opinion. Just imagining how amazing all the storylines could potentially turn out would get me sooo hyped. I’ve read many fantasy books and shows, with Wheel of Time being my favorite rn (tied with Curse of the Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold) but this is after I watched GoT die in the last 2 seasons. If you asked me at S6, it would be my favorite series ever. So I’m excited to feel that hype again with the books if what you’re saying is true.

Btw, do you think Dany’s and Jaime’s arcs (others as well) in the show are how the books are projected to have them turn out as well? Cuz I remember hearing that D&D got the bullet points about the ending and character arcs from GRRM himself. Is that true or is GRRM’s vision for the arcs and the ending really different from what the show gave us?

You’re reigniting the love I had for the series before season 7 and 8. Where I saw all the character arcs being butchered (hints were prolly there earlier but I started picking the up in the later seasons) and thought it’s how GRRM too wanted the arcs to end. I used to live and breathe everything GoT. Jaime was the one I was most pissed off about. If what you’re saying is true, I’m itching to get into the books to get a feel for how GRRM actually wrote the characters so that I can overwrite the stupidity from the show, even though the books are not finished. What do you think?

What the heck, I didn’t know this about ASOIAF. I just thought GRRM just likes to torture and kill the good people while the bad people stay winning and when they start losing, it’s not even a satisfying win for the good guy. Just an underwhelming Pyrrhic victory. ALWAYS subverting expectations with an unsatisfying route to the conclusion. Character arcs that end up fizzling out or completely reversed. This is based on what I read about GRRM giving D&D notes on the final two seasons. AKOTSK I though was GRRM throwing a bone to the people about a miniscule case of “good people” somewhat winning. So was my reading of ASOIAF based on the show completely wrong?

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Pretty cool! I’m a novice programmer with spotty knowledge of tech so I wanted to ask you - where do you think we’re at with limiting/eliminating hallucinations in LLMs? Is that something even possible?

So is Iran gonna stand alone in this or will it receive help in any shape or form from others?

I had the same opinion as you when I first started the series. I felt like I was missing something about the characters but couldn’t pin it down. I was taking what was happening on the pages at face value (and rushing thru it a bit tbh). The overly descriptive writing didn’t help. But then I stumbled upon a liveblog of a person reading through the series and sharing their thoughts. Just reading a few chapters of the blog unlocked a whole new layer of depth for the characters and the story for me that I had been missing. So much so that the infamous ‘Slog’ didn’t faze me at all and I prolly had some of the most fun reading WoT during that time. All because I was able to read between the lines of what Jordan wrote.

Now is it a knock against WoT that an external source was needed for me to understand it fully? I don’t think so. Plenty of great works sometimes need a guiding hand to be fully appreciated. But that’s just me. I’m bringing this all up in case you ever wanna get back into reading the books again. This will surely help enhance the reading experience and maybe make it actually enjoyable.

Curios what you didn’t like this season? For myself, I went with the expectation that it’s not gonna match the story/character beats from the book 1:1 and they’re not gonna be able to incorporate many characters from the books for brevity’s sake. What I did care about was if they would be able to preserve the soul of the main characters and villains and how compelling is their development. I have not found a single main character or villain (heck even some side characters) that is not hitting it out of the park in that respect. I see Lan, I see Siuan, I see Egwene, I see Lanfear, I see moggy etc. My mind fully accepts these are the same characters I read in the books. Some even enhanced.