George RR Martin on His Biggest Failure

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[@jdog7797]

He always looks like hes on his way to a toy train convention and they asked him for a quick interview.

[@Elekias]

haha, also, where did his train conductor turtle pin go?

[@superanimegamer01]

You're so right lol.

[@kr8432]

I loled

[@ProeliiatorProDeus]

I always got a Tug boat captain vibe myself. Now you're making me reconsider my opinion

[@keithmichael112]

Also a kindly news vendor

[@davida7696]

*Letting D and D continue after the show ran out of source material.

[@mackfarlainethebarenakedau5113]

The books were all so big, and they could've had so many more seasons and source material to go on. And even GRRM said so himself. Books 3 and 5 themselves are nearly 1000 pages long. I think the showrunnera just wanted to be done with it.

[@raylast3873]

I think the problem was that you couldn't really predict how it was gonna play out. For one thing he might have been underestimating how long it was gonna take to finish the books. And in the beginning, the show was great. So great it was one of the great game-changing shows in television history. But once that happened, there was really no way to stop it. Even if George knew way earlier than the rest of us how it was gonna go, what was he supposed to do? Pull the plug on the entire show, after say, Season 4 or 5? Even if he could have, which I'm not convinced of, no one would have understood, because at the time everything seemed to be going great. Once the thing was a smash success, he had pretty much no choice but to let it succeed or fail on it's own.

[@firsttimeauthor2050]

Funny how the writers are blamed, when it's because the actors couldn't be wrangled that they were forced to write the last bunch of seasons like they did. Though D&D did themselves few favours bailing on their panel in San Diego

[@saadkareem9552]

Damn i looked at this before watching the video and I thought you were doing a tldr for the video and i was actually happy for a moment there...

[@MrLee-cy1pw]

@@firsttimeauthor2050 what do you mean?

[@lordodysseus]

"Selling the rights to A Song of Ice and Fire before finishing the series."

[@sixsevaneightnine3877]

It was to be expected that the series would go downhill the moment they moved on from the source material.

[@carmineglitch]

@@sixsevaneightnine3877 He was offered many bids from other networks and movie production. HBO was a damn great decision. He had more than enough time to finish the series, instead he wrote the prequel to the series.

[@sixsevaneightnine3877]

@@carmineglitch I firmly believe he has an agreement with HBO telling him not to finish the books at it could've spoiled the tv series.

[@carmineglitch]

@@sixsevaneightnine3877 No, that's illegal. Copyright dictates against that since he's the creator, now he can sign a contract where he can't mention nor say anything that can spoil the future of the series, but he can do whatever with his books, which he did, he ended up writing the sequel series instead of finishing the song of Ice and Fire.

[@MatiZ815]

@@carmineglitch It's not illegal if he agreed to it.

[@notrdy4thisjelly546]

You’re still a hot young writer to me George.

[@TheManaPrism]

#daddyvibes

[@BigMikeMcBastard]

He writes?

[@InJouHande]

@@TheManaPrism i. love. youtube.

[@fadillangston9797]

@@BigMikeMcBastard lmfao ikr?

[@CheerfullyCynical829]

Yikes

[@frname7665]

love the way he says "BOKS" instead of "books"

[@xorpe7172]

Frname Bux

[@alikaankaramese9419]

fun fact bok means shit in turkish

[@willffre]

yeah I guess hes saying that word tiressly a lot hehe

[@Phoenixwizard77]

I noticed that too. Lol

[@WardenOfTerra]

How is he meant to say it? Like a scouser? BOOOOO-KSSSS!

[@raylast3873]

"I've never been tortured" really? Then what do you call Season 8?

[@Oblong-Orange]

Boooooooooyah!!!!

[@diegoolivaresgonzalez42]

Season 7 but a little bit worse

[@cuuy]

The thing is, the worse the show is, the more the fans are longing for the new book. Also it would help him selling the new book that the show is not running anymore.

[@obsessivefangirl5055]

@@cuuy do u think he delayed the books deliberately?

[@cuuy]

@@obsessivefangirl5055 Some people believed it, but I fear he really hasn't finished them yet. I hope he gets more motivations now.

[@Lark88]

As a 35 year old guy who's still trying to write his first book, this video was really inspiring.

[@Celeborn93]

Working on a story myself :) Keep it up, and don't give up if your first book sucks. - Also don't give up during the middle of your first book, that's the hard part.

[@yaggity]

hows it going? genuinely curious

[@Daddix0]

yeah wondering the same, hows your book going? i hope everything is well

[@DudeeSweet]

interested in this as well

[@zakunick1]

You can do it! Good bad or otherwise, you’ll complete it!

[@andrxsinho5626]

we need an animated ASOIAF series that only follows the books when he's done with them

[@Jeremy-ql1or]

So no ASOIAF series?

[@SchmokinJoe]

Yes! I've been saying that for years! A really good animated version that follows the books and is like 100 hours long would be amazing.

[@itszaaaamzeh]

@@SchmokinJoe 100 hours of animation at the level required for game of thrones sounds impossible really

[@petrkinkal1509]

@@itszaaaamzeh Today maybe but...... "when he's done with them" So you are looking at 22nd century. At that point you will probably just get some ASI to spit it out for you.

[@SchmokinJoe]

@@itszaaaamzeh It wouldn't be quick or easy but it is possible and it would be amazing.

[@jamomma7296]

That Theodore sturgeon anecdote is hauntingly similar to what’s going on with winds and george. He says it with such sadness too, just makes it even more cryptic. It’s already been 10 years.

[@jeromemarchan1046]

Now I understand why it took him a long time to start writing TWOW. Most of his career, he hadn't got any great publicity and fortune until AGOT. Most of his works are good but didn't achieve commercial success. But now that he has that success, having earned millions of dollars, he wants to enjoy it. He wants to savor the moments that he has while he has his fortune and fame. He is an old man and it is rare to get things like those. He should at least enjoy for the time being until he passes on. Us fans, shouldn't harass him in any way just because he doesn't start writing. He is an artist and artists have their own time in reading. He is enjoying his life. And our roles as fans is to support that.

[@ranger3576]

I admit that I use to hate that he was slow at writing. Until, surprise, surprise, I tried to write a book myself. I’ve finally realized how hard it can be to write a book, to tell a good story. As such, I tip my hat to you George. You have my respect for writing as much as you have to such a high quality

[@tommerker8063]

most of his books were comercial succesful

[@InJouHande]

@@tommerker8063 His latest books were. Not all of them

[@tommerker8063]

@@InJouHande 1. i said MOST, not ALL 2. comercial succesful is not the same as bestseller

[@InJouHande]

@@tommerker8063 in that case, I apologise. I didn't know about the second bit.

[@MitchellPorter2025]

He said "I was a hot young writer for quite a long time"... and suddenly from the depths of memory, I remembered a 1970s sf/horror short story I read long ago, "Sandkings". Fascinating to think that he went from mild success in post-1960s commercial sf, to the desert of Hollywood scriptwriting, and then the story he wrote to include all the things he couldn't do in Hollywood, became the basis for the biggest fantasy TV series of the 2010s.

[@ManDuderGuy]

You know there is a SandKings movie eh? I think it was "made for TV" but it was a good watch. Starring uhh...Bo Bridges I think? Check it out.

[@jokester3076]

A.A.-ron that sandkings adaptation was the pilot episode of the 90’s revival of the Outerlimits.

[@titoiswack3524]

A: not finishing the books before the show B: letting David Benioff and D.B. Weiss continue the show without any source material C: The Armageddon Rag

[@diegoolivaresgonzalez42]

I don't realy know... I didn't care about the books before season 7 realease

[@tatteredprince2097]

Hey I love the tag. Very unique

[@tatteredprince2097]

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[@geminisundone]

@Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix They clearly got bored and rushed to end it. Couldn't care less though as the book series far exceeds it.

[@TheCoffeeNut711]

@@diegoolivaresgonzalez42 I didn't know they even existed. If it wasn't for the show I wouldn't have read the books which are my favorites

[@mightybatillo]

"He took 20 years for this" OOF Martin describing himself with winds of winter : (

[@dovahkiin7396]

Still got 10 years to go i guess.

[@AndréVilaFranca]

Having trusted D&D was his biggest mistake.

[@dark3rthanshadows]

was a good thing, gave him money more readers, but at the end....

[@panchotz100]

Tbf grr martin has some of the fault too

[@fishofgold6553]

+Andre' Vila Franca He had them write the show GoT despite the fact that they had no experience writing for television specifically and he knew it. Big mistake. They were great at first, then less good when they started changing storylines, then mediocre and laughable once they ran out of source material.

[@Watcher-hh4mu]

Not really. GRRM was approached by lots of adaptators who would've made far worse adaptation than HBO. The problem was adapting unfinished books. Mostly. HBO did start making their own fanfic with Brienne VS Hound and Arya defeating the Night King and stuff. There was just no good adaptators around.

[@Hirnlego999]

This goes both ways though, they expected him to write the books faster..

[@TheGosslings]

He's absolutely right about that phrase "in the summer snows"; that kind of light bulb going off over one's head can really light the path to a whole new world unfolding before you. Those are the kinds of moments that are keys to the kingdom.

[@StormDogg]

"Where do you get your ideas from?" *Norm Macdonald snickering in the background.

[@miguelsamanez3452]

haha, exactly what I thought! kzbin.info/www/bejne/imi8gGeHid9nf5o

[@aguy1340]

I'll tell you where he got them, Ralph's

[@xedasxedas]

@@aguy1340 any particular Ralphs?

[@johnr797]

@@xedasxedas yeah no it's the beverly hills Ralph's

[@jackmoore8822]

now norm macdonald can't snicker anymore

[@1994mammo]

Blokes still a legend in my eyes. He’s gifted the world a great story. He has nothing to be sorry for.

[@princelyclouds7980]

Thank you sir. Refreshing to see some respect shown for his genius work, through all the hate in the comments.

[@ruifigueiredo5486]

@@1994mammo "entitled" lol

[@risankati]

@@1994mammo agreed. He has given so much to so many people with this story and the characters.

[@YourBlackLocal]

I'm not hating him, but how good a story is, is dependent on how well you can tell the whole story. half of storytelling is setting things up, and the other half is finishing them. So until then I can't say how great A song of ice and fire is.

[@risankati]

@John Griffith yea it is a bit scary. To think that we might not get an ending. I worry he got kinda resentful about ASOIAF because of all the hype and pressure around it and the show. I really hope he gets to finish and stay true to his vision.

[@captain-obvious-speaks]

6:49 Hate it when helicopters fly inside buildings

[@Emy-fv5ny]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@0ussama01]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Damn dude, not all killers use weapons.

[@hamzamahmood9565]

I did not see that coming

[@joshuameadows8197]

What?

[@PicmipPixel]

dude, that was hilarious

[@Clivetinker]

The biggest failure really depends on if he dies before GOT books end. It’ll take a chunk out of his legacy and critics would be right that he might have written his way into a corner that he couldn’t get out of

[@FlowerTrollSan]

7:23 The Three Eyed Crow sent a vision of the first Bran chapter into George's brain. 😁

[@melavin734]

FlowerTrollSan three eyed raven

[@FlowerTrollSan]

@@melavin734 Bran calls it three eyed crow in the books.

[@melavin734]

FlowerTrollSan oh i forgot, sorry

[@rymdalkis]

It seems like George is one of those writers who hit a writer's block when he reached his 60s

[@JackoBanon1]

@monokhem Actually the hype after the first seasons of the HBO show was a big distraction and he really enjoyed being famous jumping from interview to interview and being involved in a lot of projects related to the show. This destroyed all the drive left in him to work on the books because he had it all already: Money and fame.

[@JackoBanon1]

@monokhem A Dance of Dragons came out shortly after season 1 was aired. That means that the writing was completed at least half a year before. Before that GRRM promised the show writers that he would complete the series before they ran out of book material. I don't think that the author wanted it to end like this. But the success of the show just distracted him too much and he enjoyed his sudden fame.

[@muchanadziko6378]

@@JackoBanon1 Yes, so he got a writer's block and basically single-handedly destroyed the show based on his books.

[@ajayyss]

6:49 Can anyone explain why i'm stuck in time and space repeating the WAH-WOH-WAH-WAH-WOOP sound the interviewer made? At the most important part of the video nonetheless

[@protein3266]

a subtle flex to sell 'the Armageddon Ranks'. Well played George, well played.

[@connormason9266]

Rag

[@thedumbdog1964]

Idk how you heard ranks

[@chessic4]

Well part of the problem with The Armageddon Rag is the horrible title.

[@c.s.804]

Lol. Maybe it wasn't horrible in the 70s

[@johnrankin7135]

@@c.s.804 I've assuming he's using rag in the sense of a snappy piano song. Hadn't heard of it until this video just now, and liked it on that basis as soon as I heard it.

[@MrSilvUr]

@@johnrankin7135 I figured it was a disreputable news paper.

[@johnrankin7135]

@@MrSilvUr huh, could be, that was just first thing that came to mind but yours sounds more likely. Either way, sounds like a fun title. The reviews aren't great, though

[@MrSilvUr]

@@johnrankin7135 Apparently it's about a rock band, so... Could go either way? *Shrug*

[@rohit_7777]

I can't believe they invited vargo hoat to interview george rr martin😂😂

[@pratyay2sarkar]

Thath righth.

[@WyldeTripKY]

fantastic questions here. I'm not used to these types of great questions from a host.

[@Battleschnodder]

"Where do you get your ideas from?"

[@raphwalker9123]

Yeah because people love talking about their biggest failures infront of a live audience.

[@Len124]

@@raphwalker9123 The interview isn't for the author, it's for the audience. That question isn't that bad, especially when someone is put on a pedestal. "Where do you get your ideas?" on the other hand, is the prototype for the "bad question" to ask a writer.

[@shoe_gaze]

i like how ur videos not only include the content that the titles say it will contains but also two or three more thoughtful questions and answers

[@clashplaya8638]

Not finishing winds of winter before D&D finished the show

[@mackfarlainethebarenakedau5113]

Trus enough, but remember even after The Winds of Winter, he's still planning A Dream of Spring. Another, he says, 1,500 page monster of a novel.

[@jaimelannister1797]

@@mackfarlainethebarenakedau5113 my hope is that winds of winter will tie up a ton of plot lines that were set up so Dream of spring will be an easier write as it’ll be a more straight forward plot with the war of the dawn

[@mackfarlainethebarenakedau5113]

@@jaimelannister1797 We can only hope. But I also sympathize with GRRM; as a writer fighting to get my first novel on the page, one thst's very big and complex itself, I understand why he's taking such a long time. He's writing something very big, and he doesn't wanna screw it up. I can really sympathize.

[@jaimelannister1797]

@@mackfarlainethebarenakedau5113 I can sympathize too and I understand how it takes time. I’m just worried that we’ll never get A Dream of Spring. Especially because he’s said that he’s gonna write Fire and Blood Two before A Dream of Spring

[@mackfarlainethebarenakedau5113]

@@jaimelannister1797 You'd think of he spent all the rest of his time working on the last parts of ASOIAF, we'd probably have both Winds and Dream. He certainly seems to have had time to work these side projects.

[@maskedmarvyl4774]

Notice how at the end he said he put aside another book he was working on to work on the chapter that suddenly popped into his head. There's a huge lesson there for writers. He could have said "No, I'm going to maintain focus, and finish this book", and then everything he remembered about that chapter would have disappeared forever; at least the original inspiration for it would have. I think following an inspiration when it seizes you results in better creations; not putting it off until it's at a more convenient time. Inspiration comes at its own time; not yours.

[@cinkaid8710]

KZbin: “norm Macdonald where do you get your ideas from”. Can’t believe they asked him that 🤣

[@BaldingClamydia]

Stephen King is still prolific, and he's in his 60s. I agree it depends on the person.

[@muss2055]

Has stephen king written something as massive and complicated as a song of ice and fire?

[@BaldingClamydia]

@@muss2055 I hope I'm misreading the tone of your comment, because it seems condescending, but I answered as if it wasn't intended to be. His novels don't deal so much with an interviewed political web as they do individual character studies. Dark Tower or The Stand would be the only thing you could try to compare. The Dark Tower series has connections to most of King's other books, as well as some glorious fourth-wall breaking in the form of visiting the author. The Stand is over a thousand pages long and has an ensemble cast similar to GRRM's, with several parallel storylines converging toward the climax. I found both very enjoyable.

[@LWoodGaming]

@@muss2055 Stephen king is 71

[@ellieadele3769]

BaldingClamydia I'm just curious, has he written anything in the last 20 years as good as the stuff he was writing when younger? Just to clarify, I don't read King, so I have no opinion. But I thought the question was just as much, if not more, about the quality of their later writing as about the amount they were writing.

[@itheivoidi9151]

70s dumbF

[@TechnologicallyTechnical]

Man I wish my worst failure was writing a really good novel

[@tpawsplayground]

He makes a lot of points about writers, and peeps who either do things early or later, that kinda makes me think about myself as a writer. I'm late 20s now, and I'm always feeling stuck in my life. I even hit a massive motivation block. I finished one book. And I know I dont want to end there, but feel blocked. Him saying this kinda makes me think about how I think of it all... Everyone whining about him not finishing the series yet...don't even worry about it. He'll finish writing, it's not up to you. It's up to him.

[@eisenbergfilms9965]

Thomas Paxton What is your First book?

[@TheCoffeeNut711]

@Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix I started rereading them and it amazes me how much I my enjoying it. Like I missed things the first time around and its like a new story!

[@animaleyesone]

He is immensely intelligent. He knows people want his next book right now, but I think that Martin takes his craft very seriously, and he knows his audience deserves his best. We are waiting (some of us not very patently) because he has done right by us so far with his world of characters and the story so far. I don't know if people realize that even though he has written novels to be read by an audience, we as the audience don't have any power over when his books come out. I think that he has finished the book and is already working on the next books in the series.

[@jimlittle5769]

Maybe not having a new novel in the Song of Fire and Ice in over 10 years?

[@Mythki11er]

'I was a hot young writer...' (looks up pics) Hmm, not bad jar-jar

[@mbryson2899]

"Armageddon Rag" is one of my favorite books.

[@DoctorSess]

The Armageddon Rag is a great book. It’s like a psychedelic rock n roll mystery.

[@haicokingma8734]

Never even heard of it until now but I do like the title. Too bad I'm not much of a reader.. 😢

[@eddisontollett8845]

Selling the copyrights for "a song of ice and fire" too soon before you finished your books.

[@ZR38315]

Eddison Tollett well he’d have to actually finish the book at some point then

[@megamovieman101]

How dolorous of you, Edd 😂

[@AjayKumar-hh6hx]

I am 26 and writing my own medieval fantasy and stone-age historic fantasy novels. Fortunately, I work a fixed permanent job that pays well and covers my expenses and more. It does eat into my writing time and frustrates me. But I believe it is always best to have a side job. Struggle for 5 years juggling writing and job, save up money, and then decrease the time you spend on your job. This is a slow way, but could ensure that your life is reasonably secured while doing what you love.

[@Aethelwulf_of_Westseaxe]

Would look forward to read your work, mate. Cheers!

[@AjayKumar-hh6hx]

@@Aethelwulf_of_Westseaxe Thank you for commenting :) I will, soon enough :)

[@ConOdeez]

Great philosophy, Ajay !

[@TheCoffeeNut711]

same. I hate my electrician job (its any job really I hate) but I need to save and save to secure my future so I can write. To be honest though, a lot of great writers lived shitty hard lives. Great works are born of struggle.

[@sydnitheromantictaylor112]

*Once he knew Dan and Dave didn't want to do 10 full seasons he should've found other directors that were willing or he should've told them to do their own ending since they weren't going to do the amount of time needed. I know a lot of people are talking shit that he didn't finish the books and yes he definitely should've finished them however there's a lot of book content in the fourth and fifth book that didn't get added into the show because they knew it would take them more than 73 episodes to finish and they wanted to fit it into that amount of episodes.

[@ChapterMasterADO]

Not the same. You know it too.

[@loganroy3381]

The show is too long as it is. They could've told the story in 7 full seasons. The fuck even happened in season 7? Scrap that whole mess and you have 4 episodes more for the final season. And rewrite that shit. That's how you fix it, not by bloating its runtime unnecessarily. Even season 6 can be trimmed and filled with more meaningful plotstuff instead of Tyrion telling cringe-worthy jokes to the most boring and forgettable characters of the whole show.

[@SamDePrez]

@@loganroy3381 The show is not to long, they just got rid of everything that made people like it in the first place, cersei and the night king were both foreshadowed since season 1 as dangerous enemies and they chose to get rid of them both in 3 episodes.

[@Nobody-fb7ni]

He’s not HBO, he’s not the one that gets to choose.

[@ellieadele3769]

cosgrove360 This! 🖕🏻🖕🏻

[@DanBrown96]

Thanks George. As a writer, I’m always inspired by you.

[@SomeonePro123]

D&D failing is actually perfect for him, people are more hyped for his books than ever because they want a proper ending. D&D rushed the ending so nothing made sense, hopefully with the books it makes more sense.

[@carmineglitch]

George needs to make at least 2 to 3 more books for the source to have a proper ending. Honestly, I blame both George and D&D. George had plenty of time to finish his books like 20 years, and he wanted to milk the show to 14 seasons.

[@ruifigueiredo5486]

@@carmineglitch yeah i hate defending dnd but they had to write an ending in like 6 to 9 months george has had almost a decade no excuse for him

[@Hana9916]

@@ruifigueiredo5486 They didn't HAVE to, they just chose to

[@malafakka8530]

@@Hana9916 the have less than a year to come up with a plot that would fill 800+ pages of a very complex story, and Martin takes years for that, and right now he is taking more time than ever. This does not excuse flawed writing, but it can explain a few things. I don't know if it is true, but I read somewhere that Martin said that couldn't have done a better job under the circumstances (I think he would have done at least a bit better because he knows his world better than anyone, but if he said then okay).

[@SomeonePro123]

@monokhem your comment is 8 months late, but sure.

[@aaronallen5307]

What you have to remember is that his success is from the fans. I understand wanting to enjoy your success and he has deserved every bit of it, but reality is closing in on him. He is, in fact, getting old and the risk of him dying becomes greater along with an unfinished story. The fans have their hearts wrapped into it and at some point you need to finish what you started and complete the story not wait twenty years later for the next book. Imagine if Tolkien got great success from Two Towers and then waited around forever to write Return of the King’s part and then died. We would not have a classic trilogy then, but instead a great what could’ve been. Your recognition in history is due to what you did, not what you almost did. Finish the books George it’s time to grind. I am a writer so I know where he is bogged down at right now. Too many characters and too many plot lines. Time to focus now and bring it full circle.

[@Hirnlego999]

He should not have told the end to D+D. because they did a super rush to the end and a lot of it didn't make any sense

[@jon-umber]

6:10 - There it is again, every writer's least favorite question 😂

[@radry100]

Not releasing winds of winter on time is his biggest failure.

[@pinianna]

Releasing it on time, but rushed and poorly written/edited would be a bigger failure

[@geminisundone]

@@pinianna Correct. He can take his time as there are many other superb writers to read...like Dan Simmons.

[@Makkuvideos]

radry100, you can’t rush creativity buddy. considering how badly d & d botched season 8 of the show George’s books are all we’ve got left. and i’ll wait another decade if it means that the books will be well written and wrap up the story in a satisfying and captivating way

[@geminisundone]

@The Law He owes us nothing you spoilt child.

[@geminisundone]

@The Law He owes you nothing you entitled brat. You don't speed up or dictate creativity. If you had a creative bone in your body you would know this.

[@benhuether5474]

Inspite of everything I STILL trust Martin and see where he is coming from. It is clear that he wants to fully establish and complete the lore and history of Westeros and the world he created before completing the main book series. I personally think it would be awkward and anticlimactic if the side projects were completed after the main book series was already over and that he really wants to get that off his chest before he continues writing the most critical moments of the series.

[@ligmab.8572]

I love this man

[@Jack4nd1]

Maybe he already finished the Winds of Winter and he finished it like 3 years ago. And this whole time he is working hard to finish a Dream of Spring. Once he completes that, he’ll drop Winds of Winter on us and regardless if it is successful or not, he’ll have the last book to release on his terms. Just a theory.

[@SunDogGod]

I pray everyday that this is the case and he drops it soon. I’ve never been as invested in a series as this one

[@shady.passionate]

Dreaming is free

[@kalijr.1299]

He has confirmed this to not be true however

[@Jack4nd1]

@@kalijr.1299 you’re right. It’s pretty clear now that he will never finish the books. I was holding out some hope though…

[@LtCaveman]

Not releasing the Winds of Winter. That's it. That's the big one, George.

[@ChapterMasterADO]

Biggest failure letting DnD ruin the last season of GOT. and not releasing the last book

[@carmineglitch]

he had to release more than 1, instead he wrote the prequel books.

[@walterfilms6329]

The show would had ended the same but yeah if we could at least seem more details. :/

[@jdog7797]

True they only used it as a way to get Disney money, like it was their resume. Disney doesn't care if they cant come up with a great story, because Disney Star Wars was just a recycling of the original 3 anyways. Rogue One was good. Darth Vader made it awesome!

[@dash4800]

@@walterfilms6329 The same, you mean condensing at least 3 seasons of material into six shitty episodes. Pretty sure thats not ending the same

[@JackoBanon1]

The fun fact is that he wrote books 4 and 5 parallel because it should be one book first and in the epilogue of book 4 he stated that he seperated them in 2 and that book 5 is almost finished. Book 5 was released more than 6 years later after book 4 was released ... It took longer than writing releasing books 1, 2 and 3 together. And then the HBO show started and everything fell apart...

[@danieleden2550]

Summer snows implies its going to get so much colder.

[@PrettyPaintedRecords]

6:49 interviewer.exe stopped working

[@spodergibbs5088]

This interviewer was an annoying idiot

[@SchnellVITALVINYLVLOG]

Allowing The HBO show to continue without the proper information and time.

[@theharlequin7280]

4:41 "He took 20 years for this?" Sadly that is probably what people will say when his publisher scarps together the manuscript for Winds of Winter and finally releases it after Martin's death.

[@handsomebrick]

I recall people joking about Benioff and Weiss going off the script very early on, I want to say as early as season 3 I saw a video parody of the GoT writing room as a bunch of people having fun putting whatever they wanted in the script, and one hapless guy just wanting to adapt the books.

[@MeetThaNewDealer]

I wished GRRM had started writing ASOIF back in 1971 he would have been done by now

[@opqrrg]

I don't think so but maybe i could i have published the winds of winter this year and we were just waiting for a dream with spring

[@malafakka8530]

That's speculation.

[@phoebechan192]

A friend of mine met George RR Martin and he was a huge jerk at a meet and greet. He would only talk to her husband and not her. Then he slid the book he signed off the table and onto the floor. She even has a picture of him sliding the book off the table and onto the floor

[@MrBrock314]

What a weird thing to have a picture of.

[@jebushwplainview9453]

I'd give a testicle to know the proper ending to the series. I'm on my second time re-reading ASOIAF. I'm on ADWD 150 pages in... Been waiting for winter since 2006.

[@pucarevoXxX]

ADWD came out in 2011

[@jebushwplainview9453]

@@pucarevoXxX But I started reading the books in 2006. And I've been promised winter since then.

[@pucarevoXxX]

@@jebushwplainview9453 That's a weird way to look at it

[@janakipejov3667]

End isnt going to be different than the show sadly

[@abouttimek2428]

Not meeting his deadlines for ASOIAF.

[@PeeedaPan]

Letting D&D end a show about his magnum opus

[@plushdogg124]

4:35 George basically describes himself. I've given up hope that he'll finish the series, just as I've lost interest in the series all-together. I think it's safe to say calling him the "American Tolkien" was a bit premature.

[@jonharrison9222]

And the author of The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro, went on to win the Nobel Prize. So…

[@larryzeka5011]

How about his biggest failure is allowing D&D to put out that turn Gmae of thrones last season.

[@bigassboy9343]

*5-8

[@turkeygod6665]

Dnd and got? Did I miss something?

[@larryzeka5011]

That Turd Game of Thrones last season*

[@turkeygod6665]

@@larryzeka5011 Oh I know, but how does that connect to Dnd?

[@trevorsnow4274]

No your wrong. Be grateful they made the show in first place.

[@WWESVRGAMER]

His biggest failure is being unable to finish his story.

[@WWESVRGAMER]

@@seriall-eo3bq i know that he doesnt owe me anything. He can come out and say "the book will never be out" and thats perfectly fine because its honest. What i ask from him is not treating all his fans like Idiots with his constant "Updates" and false hopes. In the latest "update" he even insulted people because of their behaviour wich is caused by him. Just finish the book or let it rest

[@MRJTD99]

@@seriall-eo3bq Yes, he owes his fans, the people that have allowed him to live in luxury and live out his dream, nothing. How dare we ask him to him to at least finish the thing he himself started? Fans are so demanding.

[@GrimReader]

No he doesn’t owe fans anything. But he’s clearly not interested in finishing it, very few modern books take 10+ years to finish he isn’t writing Faust here. McCarthy wrote the border trilogy in six years and it’s a far better collection that ASOIAF

[@QueenDaenerysTargaryen]

Letting d&d do season 8. GOT should have been 13 seasons.

[@NickB-md1oy]

This interviewer loves to hear himself speak.

[@scorpiusbalthazar4327]

It's rich that he mentions that Theodore guy seeing as how he's currently taking forever to write 2 books and he's in his 70s.

[@Ar1AnX1x]

why is it so hard to understand for people that when you're doing something like ASOIAF you can't just finish it when you're not sure the quality of what you're going to release isn't as good as you want it to be, and for someone like this quality means everything. he wants it to be a masterpiece and he rather not releasing anything if it's not going to be that good. some people are perfectionists, deal with it.

[@youtubeunderground2990]

4:25 e scary foreshadowing here. I wonder if he was talking about his own fears here?

[@radicalbanana1217]

4:25 Sounds kinda familiar....

[@X22-p4t]

I understand you are speaking about D&D, but how does that apply to them?

[@radicalbanana1217]

@@X22-p4t no I'm talking about GRRM since he seems to have hit a writer's block and has been writing the same book for like 8 years.

[@X22-p4t]

Oh, sorry:)

[@bbarrettgriffith]

@@radicalbanana1217 Actually he’s been writing multiple books while also writing WoW along with producing the main show and several prequels.

[@nikolasscholz7983]

The Armageddon Rag is a fantastic novel. Highly recommend it

[@geminisundone]

I found it to be OK. Nothing special. Same goes for Fever dream. He hit his peak with Tuf Voyaging and the ice n fore series.

[@nikolasscholz7983]

@@geminisundone Probably depends on the reader. I also loved "A Song for Lya" and "Dying of the Light". Tuf Voyaging, even though really funny and entertaining, is at many points still quite crude compared to his other works.

[@geminisundone]

@@nikolasscholz7983 Of course its subjective but even as a singer songwriter myself I thought " Rag " would appeal to me...it wasn't bad. Just not great to me. Its due a re-read though somewhere down the line. Martin certainly didn't hit the ground running like many other authors ( King, Simmons and Barker ) but he certainly has got there now. I don't mind the wait. Having read of ice n fire through three times a fourth is due once winds gets a release date. Supreme series of novels.

[@batman-gu7pm]

I thought he was gonna day feast for crows

[@hipsterelephant2660]

It sucks because The Armageddon Rag is arguably one of his best non GOT works

[@holtdaughtrey8025]

The Armageddon Rag was actually really good

[@strawberryblondemilk7249]

Not finishing a song of ice and fire will be his biggest failure ....those books are never coming out

[@jakehopkins6989]

How is that a failure?

[@strawberryblondemilk7249]

@@jakehopkins6989 hows it not his fans that have bought into this story will never know how it ended

[@danilomurillo6312]

I need a raven to pass this along. Is this really the battle of Summer Hall? It should be in the Dream of spring. The wind stood still and the silenced roar. Rhaegar stood in balance and grew once more. Dancing dragons drumming snores Hammer Druming battle songs. Baratheon warg and the earth shook. Battle arms ready my lords. Everyone in the halls stared in awe. Both Rhaegar and Baratheon squaring off. Rhaegar swing his sword and sang a song.-Danilo Antonio

[@poivronvert]

I love the Armageddon Rag!

[@michaelmichaelson7518]

I thought I was watching hot ones at the start of this fr hahaha

[@DisturbedAidan2]

If they had done Game of Thrones properly, they would have made 10 series, all with 10 episodes each. Alas they did not have enough source material to make it work.

[@endeavor4178]

DisturbedAidan2 *seasons

[@DisturbedAidan2]

@@endeavor4178 Literally called series but whatever.

[@endeavor4178]

DisturbedAidan2 Nope, but I

[@DisturbedAidan2]

monokhem By rushing the story and cutting out entire major characters from the books?

[@raylast3873]

Yeah, those long careers with a pension at the end don‘t really exist very much anymore. It‘s still true that writing is not really on the secure side, of course.

[@ftswarbill]

That brother is light in the loafers.

[@un_known5895]

i honestly thought he was going to name drop Robert Jordan when he talked about authors who had died before their book was completely done XD

[@kristali5433]

While that would have been interesting, George has never read The Wheel of Time, or at the very least beyond The Eye of the World. So he'd have no frame of reference for the quality of the series which is what he was talking about. He was also friends with James Rigney, so I doubt he'd have done that even if he thought it just out of respect. XD

[@exitwound3931]

His greatest failure is he keeps doing all these interviews taking victory laps for a race he hasn't finished.

[@Marcus1Arelius3]

He’s being asked to come to all these interviews, even though he’d definitely prefer staying home and working.

[@edwincongo661]

He's got the money to die comfortably. He's not motivated anymore and won't finish the books. Even if he does they won't match the hype. He stated in an interview with Stephen King that he constantly got distracted, so, in my opinion he's done.

[@JackoBanon1]

Actually the hype after the first seasons of the HBO show was a big distraction and he really enjoyed being famous jumping from interview to interview and being involved in a lot of projects related to the show. This destroyed all the drive left in him to work on the books because he had it all already: Money and fame.

[@secretaband5013]

Armageddon rag is one of my fav books

[@oldmanoftheriver8639]

the armageddon rag is a good book. read it.

[@JoeyJoeJoe-716]

If he doesn’t say “meeting deadlines” he’s bullshitting you.

[@XDTVreloadet]

People giving George RR Martin shit for not finishing his book series YET are the worst

[@aroccoification]

Not looking like a dwarf ate a pack of hobbits

[@OtherworldlyGrey]

Funny story I was writing my exam and a song that I hard the previous starting playing in my head which gave me idea for a story

[@JC-qz3jj]

His biggest failure is selling an unfinished work that now he can't finish end of.

[@princelyclouds7980]

He can finish it, I know for a fact he's at least half way through WoW, though I don't recall the source I got it from, I have hope for George 😊

[@ruifigueiredo5486]

@@princelyclouds7980 yeah...not like people lie or anything and if he took almost thens years to write half a book then that means we will be reading wow by 2030 if hes stil alive

[@chasitymunoz1982]

Don’t hate congratulate, the most annoying think is hearing ignorant people like yourself being ugly for no reason , put the books down if you don’t like his material

[@princelyclouds7980]

@@chasitymunoz1982 Thank you.

[@Sandra-we5lq]

No, he hasn't written only half the book. He says it will be out next year and I am pretty sure it's true.

[@patricklastin5624]

Well, lovecraft for example only started writing in the second half of his life

[@ManDuderGuy]

He didn't live all that long though iirc; he had crippling bone-itis.

[@alanbarnett718]

Armageddon Rag was about the hippy era. People tend to want to believe that period never happened.

[@Cbutton]

If he doesnt say not getting the fucking books out I'll lose it

[@happybee7725]

I think the only reason people didnt buy armageddon rag is because of the name. It conjures images of an old dish cloth that has the power to end the world which doesn’t sound too appealing.

[@LloydWaldo]

He’s talking about Orson Scott Card- writing the same novel over and over. He’s been doing it now for 20 years.

[@sonsuzaskxx]

Everyone complaining about how D&D finished the series before the final two books are released - I think if y'all believe that their ending is going to be so much different than GrrM's ending, then you must be in denial. It was revealed long before S8 premiered that the season would only consist of six episodes, so it was long obvious that it was going to be rushed, but people only seemed to realise this once the show finished. GrrM will probably provide more build-up and the fates of secondary characters may be slightly different, but the conclusions between the books and the show will ultimately be the same. So if you think that D&D 'had no idea what they're doing' - GrrM told them how everything will end and they just had to pull it all off in six episodes. D&D weren't going to wait for a couple of decades for GrrM to finish the books, that would have been ridiculous.

[@Xaphatt]

Everyone watching the series and complainin, read the books lazy they're much better than the series. Your actually watching a series cause you can't stand reading 1000 chapters

[@mneedes2]

I suggest only reading the books when the series is complete.

[@blainejackson2857]

@@mneedes2 agreed… I read books 1-4 right as book 5 came out and then read 5 as soon as I finished the first 4. Then I watched the show afterwards. I’d like to reread the books again but I don’t want to be disappointed when I finish 5 and still have no idea what happens. I will read 6 if it drops though even if 7 doesn’t come out. I love the books but I wouldn’t recommend getting invested in them just yet…

[@piggsy9349]

His biggest failure is himself for not finishing his work before he dies.