If you have a problem with unfinished works, don’t ingest them until they’re finished. The artist doesn’t owe you anything.
sartalon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
IIRC correctly, they were so checked out, working on potential future projects (that were also fucking terrible), that they had most of the work passed off to others?
Honestly though, I blame the author. GOT was great until they ran out of source material. Then you saw how terrible D&D really are at this. MF still hasn’t finished the series. If you can’t finish it, then don’t fucking start it.
Maybe Sanderson can pick up the mantle for this one too.
stray@pawb.social 1 day ago
sartalon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I didn’t say anything remotely close to saying artists owed me anything. Dude bit off more than he can chew.
I have a right to be frustrated when I’m invested in a story and it just stops.
AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Similarly he had a right to not finish the book- what you don’t have is a right to tell other people what to do.
If you can’t finish it, then don’t fucking start it.
This is neither a simple expression of frustration nor is it a criticism.
It is a command.
Hence why you’re being called entitled.
sartalon@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
You need to let it go, or get over whatever this weird outrage this is that you are having.
I can feel however I want, you don’t get to gatekeep that.
I didn’t tell George RR Martin to do anything. I said a line on a social media forum.
You are choosing to take my words in the way you are describing and not in the way I intended. That is a form of manipulation and gas lighting. Especially after I clarified.
Who called me entitled? I guess I missed that. That’s a weird take, whoever said it.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 day ago
Thats why im still waiting for one piece to finish so i cant pick it up again. Sigh
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 1 day ago
Be sure to tell your grandkids it has real potential and they should check it out once the series is complete.
FishFace@piefed.social 1 day ago
They were fucking it up well before they ran out of source material. See: the confected drama of bran and Jon almost meeting North of the wall
Sanderson would be god awful at completing it and has specifically said he wouldn’t.
Newsteinleo@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Thank the gods, Sanderson’s writing is trash.
rljkeimig@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I vote Joe Abercrombie, their style is more similar imo and given direction from GRRM’s notes I think he could finish it much better than the show did.
PixxlMan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s a wild take on writing lmao. If you’re not sure the author will finish it, don’t start reading it.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think they meant don’t start adapting an unfinished property. A certain transphobic author had issues because the studios really needed her to finish books 5, 6, and 7, so they could hit their schedule of 1 movie per year for 8 years.
sartalon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You could at least come up with a response that already hasn’t been said several times.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sanderson is a bad pick and has said himself that he can’t do grimdark. Just because he’s prolific doesn’t mean he should be the de facto pick to finish series.
sartalon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Man the Sanderson hate in this post is real.
I only suggested him because he helped finish the Wheel of Time series.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Don’t hate him, he’s one of my favorite authors. He was approached to finish WoT because he was a good fit. He is not a good fit for ASoIaF
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I mean, to be clear, it was HBO’s show, yeah? Those writers worked for HBO, not the other way around?
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Not to disagree on the topic but “if you can’t Finnish it, don’t start it” is absolutely horrible advice when its about a creative art like writing.
If i am not wrong there is a whole writing style about just starting without knowing yourself where its going to end.
I highly dislike capitalism but i can see that once you have enough material to sell some of it, even if incomplete as a series. Many people would take the opportunity. I don’t know the authors economic background but for a starving artist with high potential that first book sales could be the push required to finish a series.
Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Tbh even without capitalism I prefer having been able to read the existing books without an ending over not being able to read any of them. I can get some enjoyment from the journey even without a destination
sartalon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Look at it this way.
He was clearly starting to stall in his later books, taking so long to get them out, and instead of starting to wrap up the storyline, he started introducing new elements.
I understand why he hasn’t moved forward, but I’ve lost all interest in ever picking up another book of his. The terrible writing by D&D certainly didn’t help.
My feelings of frustration are valid and my criticism is not unfounded.
I do appreciate your thoughtful response, thank you