I agree. Its really embarrassing when the interviewer is only talking about the show and they can't even pronounce the main characters names.

This interviewer is an idiot. He told GM he skips ahead chapters of some characters. What a fukc#ing idiot! Intentionally ruining the story and telling GM straight to his face.

Good interview, I always feel bad for GRRM when he gets asked a boring question he’s already answered 100 times in the past. It also shows how little research the interviewer has done. This interviewer really expanded on stuff GRRM has answered before.

@@stephenmaguire9907 the interviewer sucked. He told GM that he skips ahead chapters to see what happens. What an idiot.

Same. As an aspiring writer, you definitely can't *make* a character decide on a decision that betrays who they are as a character. You created them, but after you've breathed life into them you then have to get inside their heads and wonder what decisions they'll make based on who you created them to be. They're like people. A selfish person will make decisions that prioritize themselves, while a selfless person will make decisions that prioritize others before themselves. Someone who's morally gray will titter between the two and often make abrupt decisions not everyone will agree with. It's what separates good stories from poorly written ones.

Yeah this made me think that this interview is probably quite old, because at this point, or even 3 years ago when this was posted, he was clearly already talking about himself, but not acknowledging it.

Hes teaching us so much

I've come to terms with the fact that "A dream of Spring" will never be released.

@@cesarrodriguez8893 also, how can he fit all the characters into WoW with significant progression without it being two or three books on its own?

@@Dogboon- Completely agree. How is he gonna fit the winds of winter into the winds of winter. I mean, there's gotta be 10 Dani chapters, 10 Tyrion chapters, etc. A lot of characters are gonna get cut.

Cesar Rodriguez or just get killed immediately, I mean he said it himself right? That he promised the winds of winter will be more bloody than even A storm of swords. So if that’s the case I’m assuming he’s gonna try and fast track the first couple deaths as quickly as possible like major character deaths within the first like maybe 30 40 chapters. So maybe that’s his plan in terms of fitting things into the last 2 books.

Jack Vance died in 2013 - so before that for sure. The audio does sound older than that though.

He STILL makes mentions to bulletin boards so that might not be accurate.

In the show maybe , in the book Cat is an awful human being ! Watch the video why catelyn sucks by order of the greenhand, it gives so many different examples and evidence to back that up , the way she treats John , how she convinced ned to go to kings landing , how she doesn't care when ned says there's something off with joffery she only cares that he's the crown prince , doesn't do any of the 5 things ned asked her to do in order to prepare for war with the lannisters , the way she drives rob totally nuts and acts like she's one of his best advisers even though she never once gives him good advice during the war, she even at one point questions robs courage infront of several of his men ! I could go on and on with examples , fact is there's plenty of evidence in books that she is one the most self centered people in the book . she is not good to her family , she does a horrible at doing her duty, and she has absolutely no honor !

@@trevorwinn5012 Oh and btw I did watch that video by the order of the green hand. It represents perfectly what I mean when I talk of twisting the narrative to fit the preconceived opinion that Catelyn is bad. She defends her son life risking her own? That's her duty for godsake! No credit. But if someone else, who is 'good', does something similar? Out come the tongues...

You obviously know your asoiaf stuff , I respect your opinion, I still think cat sucks , I will agree to disagree

@@trevorwinn5012 taste is taste, I don't particularly like her either as I think she is stuck up (as virtually all nobility is with very rare exceptions) but that doesn't mean I won't try to give her her dues.

@@cyrneco Nope, Cat does a ton of bad decision that are totally her own fault. Even her mental state many times even though understandable his really bad. What do you call abandoning your children in time they most need? Because that is exactly what she did when she whent in the "who's the dagger" quest. For that she abondoned Rickon, a boy of 3 years that had just "lost" his father, 2 sisters, and brother. She abandoned Bran. And she abandoned Rob and the Regency of Winterfell. Tell me, what his "Family"? If not her 3 children that were left in her care? What is "Duty"? If not her responsability of regency of Winterfell? And what his "Honor"? If not keep her promise to Ned that he could go without burden to the south, that she would keep the "house" afloat? Cat also kidnapped a person to be "judged" in a biased court, when the only thing she had was that the weapon was his. And worse she did it in her previous land, using her previous subjects. Basically declaring Riverland war against the Lanisters by proxy. She basically threw a war declaration in her brother and father laps from nowhere. That goes totally outside the "Family", "Duty" and "Honor" of her family motto.

Very true

You just figured that out?

i couldnt stand her either she was so stuped and always messed up everything

Same with most of Cersei’s blunders, too.

I can't tell you how many times I wanted to slap her for her stupidity. I don't believe that she had any loyalty towards the Starks, because she acted out of her own naivete and incompetence.

You would think a powerfull lady is a bit smarter than that but no, she's a tard, everything and the fall of house stark is mostly her fault

Most of the advice she gave Robb was good. Releasing Jaime was the one stupid thing she did, and she did it, in the books at least, after she learnt that Bran and Rickon were dead. Obviously losing her youngest two children was devastating for her. And, nobody was doing anything to help her daughters.

Thanks for saying it. Not enough ppl realize this.

I just want the sixth book. It's ok if we don't get the 7th one because there are so many cliffhangers that are eating me away

@@ishaagrawal2174 I know..me too:)

Isha Agrawal Don't you think Winds of Winter _would_ end with the mother of cliffhangers?

I'm going to disagree with this. While I'm eternally grateful to mr.martin, the reason he is famous, the reason he doesnt have to work a 9 to 5 job like everyone else, is because he is a story teller. I believe, firmly, that it is the story tellers job to...tell a story. A whole story. Any thing less, and they become grifters.

The interviewer sucks

He sure cant... Thats the kind of stuff to better not bring up

BriansWrld there’s a great deal more magic in the books than that. Stannis’ glowing sword, the Valyrian horn that can control a dragon’s mind, melisandre’s god/gem protecting her from poisons, the way the wall and storms end was rumored to be built, Beric and Kat’s being revived from death (several times in Beric’s case), the sorcerers in essos who said their magic had started to work again since danys dragons hatched and more. Silly of Martin to bash Tolkien’s decision to revive Gandalf when he has multiple living-dead characters in his stories.

BriansWrld oh, hi Brian! I just realized you’re the same guy. No I agree, it’s not as magical a world as middle earth once was or gets during the series but when entire arcs hinge on magic I feel that counts as significantly magical. I do like how Martin has so many instances of magic while still making it realistic as to how that would be impossibly uncommon for most characters.

Well George once said when one character dies it’s shocking, but when a planet (Alderaan) is destroyed it has very little effect in the reader, I don’t think if magic was a huge part in the show it would leave as big a impact on the viewer as much as it did in what we got. If you’ve ever played Skyrim, the magic in the game just seems so bland because there’s so much, if like five people or less could wield magic it would be much more impressive

@@aylix2137 he has 2 and realy stoneheart cannot be considered as cat anymore and beric lost something of himself with every death. gandalf came back and was just the same and more

@@tommerker8063 good point but you are wrong on the second. Gandalf was in no way the same, to him, eons had passed as he had walked with the creator himself. When Gandalf returned as the white, he was all business and no more the gentle wanderer given a mission by imperfect deities millennia prior. He returned under direct mandate of the unchanging and infallible Creator of all things. There are plenty of fans who prefer Gandalf as he was before or after but you’d be hard pressed to find many who don’t think something was lost or forever altered by Gandalf’s death. I don’t find an GRRM using the exact same supernatural event as Tolkien any more impressive or creative just because he did it in a dark and despairing way, rather than hopeful and bright. For that reason among others I find GRRM’s complaint about that rather hypocritical.

george needed someone to write dialogues and should not made so kid friendly, ither than that its a fine trilogy.

@@aesir1ases64 no that’s not correct

It is sad that she did not die sooner. How many mothers, fathers, sons and daughters, young and old were butchered because she decided to kidnap Tyrion. She started the war of the five kings. She was also the one who sent Ed to Kings Landing. Nah, her fate was just what she deserved.

@@jasonphoenix292 but.... She was opposed to Ed going to the kings landing

@@jasonphoenix292 Oh, shut the fuck up.

@@balabanasireti you cannot defend that action. It was so stupid. Had she not done that the war would have still happened but very differently.

Jason Phoenix It’s true, without her and LittleFinger there is no story. Likely also no Robert’s Rebellion, at least at that specific time.

Also, who's the interviewer? Great work on his part.

Alfie ba dum tssss 😂

Boo!!!

I wonder if he did that intentionally

Catalyst... Catelyn. Lysa. Yeah. I see it now.

Ba dum tsss

I mean, he's basically telling him some of his characters are better/more interesting than others. Which obviously is true, but as an author probably not the nicest thing to hear.

@@johnr797 i do that sometimes, and i do with all the characters. it's not about liking one character more than others, it's about curiosity. example: i wanna know what's going to happen to daenerys, but once i come back to the arya's chapter i skipped i will become invested in arya's story again, and maybe wanna read one more chapter about her. davos isn't one of my favorites but one time i read 3 chapters of him cause i was too curious. i read somewhere that jon or daenerys's chapters were published as a separated book before the real book came out, so they can of course be read as separated stories at some extension. some of us just are not so strong against cliffhangers ig. sorry grrm, you made me too curious...

Exactly what happened with the Night King. Everyone had predicted Jon and him would have some sort of final battle because it'd been hinted at for seasons spread across YEARS through several books...the entire reason he even came back to life was because of it. The Night King and the Long Night was Jon's entire plotline, everything was being set-up and foreshadowed for the end of Jon's plotline...then boom, Arya appears, and instead of snapping her neck in-half (or instantly freezing her like he did everything else he touched) he watches her stab him. What was the point of Jon coming back to life again? What was the point of his entire character arc? There was none. Heck, I was actually expecting the two of them to kill one another...the Night King stabs Jon after a lengthy duel, then with the last of his strength Jon stabs him, ends the Long Night, and dies. Maybe even Ghost helps Jon win and the two of them die together, Jon cradling him like he did when Ghost was a pup. Definitely wasn't expecting a happy-ending where everyone lives. Only character Season 8 did right was Theon.

@@6ixlxrd what? The night king doesn't even exist in the books

You must be joking. She is neither smart and the entire War started from her being blindly bent on revenge.

she is stupid and always messed up everything

She made mistake upon fucking mistake upon fucking mistake. What she could screw up, she screwed up. It was her own actions that doomed her family left and right and you call her "smart"? Somewhat tough maybe. Though stubbornly stupid or arrogantly confident would be a better word to put it.

​@mattteomatei3610 no. The war started because TYWIN was blindly bent on revenge. She only brought turion to justice, ensured that he was given a fair trial and then released him - all as per the law. Tywin is the one who was thirsty for revenge.

@@brianfinnegan664 not really

BriansWrld I’m not being one of those ‘oh hey it has dragons therefore nothing about it is real’ people, I understand your point and it’s a neat one. I just, as a fellow fan of the franchise, feel that the whole claim of ‘realism’ aspect to the got universe that fans claim is a bit hollow. Realistic would take into account the many logistical errors that pervade the Asoiaf universe that break immersion. It’s all well and such to criticize something as pointless as Aragorn not having a tax plan, but I do not feel that creating a militantly pessimistic universe is the same as making something realistic. Also, people claim that characters are killed randomly before their story arcs are concluded, but that’s not the case, their dying early is always a poetic result of their actions, no amount of foreshadowing was ever really true to real life.

@@brianfinnegan664 again we reveal to each other just how little we disagree. He is indeed very good at it, dare i say the best in the business these days (or before 2011). I just do not consider the world of GoT (especially the books, as the show is far more grounded) to be any more realistic than that of Tolkein. John Flanagan's rangers apprentice series has a better claim to realism, simply because saying that only in viscerally brutal or explicit stories can the depth of human choice and character be realistically explored is untrue. If one accepts that fact and sees just how many instances there already were of that in fiction even before the nineties when the first book was released one sees that the praise being heaped on game of thrones (i think) is because we, as people, love firsts and bests and new things, but in my opinion, GoT is just a remix of a dozen things already done, and it was the creativity involved in mixing the right things that makes it so amazing.

BriansWrld yes, this is what I disagree with. The explicit, abstract evil in Lotr distracts from the conflict within each character, Bilbo’s heroism coupled with his selfishness in regards to the ring. The wizards that ventured into the world with Gandalf all had their choices and they ranged from active rebellion to casual disinterest and omission of their responsibilities. The tragic fate of Faeanor and his sons are another example of the choices made by characters that take them from highs to lows in their individual arcs. Saying other works ignore this fundamental aspect of storytelling is untrue. It is the sheer number of unique and interesting characters, none of which are a clear protagonist that Martin incredibly balances in unique ways that makes the world of GoT feel so lived in and relatable. Rangers apprentice I only bring up because there are absolutely no supernatural elements to the world. But it’s as if Flanagan (the author) basically used a random fantasy map generator and threw all the cultures of the world at it to see where they would stick, but Though the writing is no where near as good as Martin’s.

Would like to know too!

As a secondary source

And to give credit where credit is due, since you are uploading other people's work. It's pretty scummy to take and use other people's work and profit off of it without at least giving them credit.

@@theshadowfax239 Very true!

@@theshadowfax239 I was thinking in terms of relating what Martin is saying in this particular vid to stuff hes written in ASOIAF

@@sabrinakrisb4672 Probably better to find the original interview, which I would also love to find. I hate that this KZfaqr doesn't ever put where and when the interviews he uploads are from in his descriptions. It seems the least he could do for using their content, honestly. I'm appreciative of him sharing the interviews, of course, but I feel it's not right for him to not credit the sources.

He already said he wont let anyone finish the series, by law.

@@CrazyWork25 😢

@@CrazyWork25 Great. So we won't get a proper ending, and all we'll have is the horrible TV show ending? That would be a tragedy. He should have chosen an author he trusts and respects to finish the final book if he cannot, like what happened with The Wheel of Time.

He brings her back but she is hardly the same as she was before

@@mojoe2187 as different as Gandalf the grey and white

I wouldnt say that but hey thats why we like fantasy :D

Untrue, you're not looking at the factors at play, either way he's close to releasing it so we'll see.

I thought it was Littlefinger?

One of Georges scripts hinted at it being Joff, but D&D ignored that script note.

mance and his bag o'silver is more likely ... it's right there in the opening of the book.

They never revealed it in the book either.

@@HH-cm5rp and where would Mance have found the dagger? No, it was Joff. Tyrion even figured it out. And besides, what would Mance have gotten out from this? Mance is many things, but not a murderer of children. Cersei would never harm a child so young, she would have threaten Bran instead and Jamie would have done it himself.

71, mate

@@Anomandil 71 or not, the mind starts to cognitively decline at 75. And he is considered old by any standard, and is not in the best health with his weight. I hope he can live another 20 years but I am being realistic here. I don't see him finishing a dream of spring. Especially when he has talked about working on Fire and Blood part 2 and another dunk and egg book before Dream of spring. Whatever he writes I will be happy to read but I am not holding my breath here for him finishing a song of ice and fire.

@@TheYankeesUnited perhaps the remaining books won't match the others in quality, but I believe WoW is almost done, and the bar has been significantly lowered by the show I think Winds is going to be excellent and Dream will be complete though not as good

@@TheYankeesUnited I have not heard heard him talk about finishing other novels before Dream, I really hope its not true, perhaps I'm being biased. I just really want to see a satisfactory end to the series. The show bothers me more than I could possibly express in words

nytolstoy Grrm said that fire and blood 2 will come after ADOS, and the dunk and egg story is partially written. I’m fairly optimistic that grrm can finish the series.

Most people don't speak German

Why would anyone think that reading a book out of order would be a good idea????

Depends. Sometimes it's necessary just due to time and logistics of tv vs paper.

he has finished plenty of massively complex, long books.

Guy has been writing novels for like 40 years

@@superninjaraidingman In editing books and expanding upon the established history of his own world. Sure.

@Jonathan Jones Ok thank you Jonathan Jones. I will do that.

@@emiliawaldmann2109 what is it, "cat"? I dont have subtitles and Im not too much of a rader so i havent really read The books.

It's sad. I don't think he was critiquing him. Just observing and even maybe concerned for himself

Well he's still writing and releasing books just not winds of winter

I mean you're free to like the ending, but a majority of people bitched not because they "didn't get what they wanted", but because the last two seasons were poorly written, and the characters were reduced to one dimensional cartoonish versions of themselves. Don't even get me started on the Others/White Walker plot.

I have yet to read the books, but she was definitely a "good" character in the show. And I loved her appearance as well, homely yet attractive and intelligent, the long hair, etc.

But Vader's very name means "father" in Dutch, so that's pretty clearly premeditated. I don't think Lucas did much pandering to the fans in his work, he was too self-absorbed. :)

@@MravacKid The Father/Vader connection is a great point. But being from that time period I remember many thinking it weird that DV claimed to be LS's dad. Overall, still love those original SW flicks...before GL started to mess with them later on. Personally didn't care for the prequels -- except Ewan as young Kenobi -- and didn't really care for the new SW movies. Did like Solo and the Mandalorian though.

Vader and the twins were always the original characters, it was just that he wasn't Vader, just Anakin originally. Leia wasn't Luke's twin, but it wouldn't have worked to force in another character so late so the characters got combined. The certain point of view is pivotal at showing the hypocrisy of the Jedi.

That's fair that it's your opinion. You are most welcome to have it. I just disagree on almost every level.

In show not in books.