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Originally Posted by keg in kc
That's insane. The books are so much better than the show. Even the last two. And saying that is no slam on the show. You just can't do that much on TV...
Also...pretty sure seasons 6-8 will bear only passing resemblance to books 6 and 7 ( and maybe more, if he lives that long...)
That's what I'm still most worried about. That we'll never get to the actual end of the books.
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I strongly disagree.
The first three were mostly great, but the last two were very disappointing. And all of them were bloated with pointless characters and needless fluff. Much like Stephen King, Martin takes a good 500 page story and makes it 1,000 pages long. The series necessarily blasts all the excess crap away. Otherwise, we'd only be halfway through season 2 at this point with entire episodes dedicated to feast menu selections.
The best part of Season Six for me was finally not knowing what was going to happen - ironically, right when the story became fairly predictable. I got to watch other people experience the joy/horror of the show's biggest twists, already knowing what was going to happen. That sucked.
If I had it to over again, I would have either never read the books at all, or read them after I'd watched the pertinent seasons.
And frankly I've grown to loathe that procrastinating old ****.