[Jessie]

That Siouxsie and the Banshees cover is terrible, but I like Feral Love very, very much; by far the best marriage of song and visuals of any of their season trailers, chills every time.

[Jessie]

Originally posted by Reaper

But Drogon's name was used i think? Or not?

This gif. gives me life, I love the way the dragons are being treated as predatory animals, not just fire breathing WMDs waiting to be deployed; the image of Drogon hunting the boy is genuinely unsettling and ***** on what most horror movies are offering these days.

[OprahIsBlack]

Originally posted by Jessie

TBF, writing a book of that scale must be daunting;

(this isn't directed at you or any other poster, btw, just at GRRM himself.)

Let's all get real for a second and analyze whether it is truly necessary, and therefore acceptable, for GRRM to be taking so long with his books.

We shall turn now to most similar series to ASOIAF, The Wheel of Time. These are the two biggest and bestselling works of Fantasy literature by American authors since Lord of the Rings, and WoT was an influence on GRRM and its success paved the way in the publishing world for GRRM to be able to put out a large, multivolume single narrative work over a span of many years, so it is natural to compare the two works. Side note, Martin and Jordan are, to my knowledge, the only 2 fantasy authors to have more than 1 book debut at #1 on the NYT Bestseller list.

Let us look at the page #s and release dates for WoT.

Book 1: 1990, 688 pages
Book 2: 1990, 600 pages
Book 3: 1991, 624 pages
Book 4: 1992, 704 pages
Book 5: 1993, 704 pages
Book 6: 1994, 720 pages
Book 7: 1996, 720 pages
Book 8: 1998, 604 pages
Book 9: 2000, 668 pages
Book 10: 2003, 704 pages
Prequel: 2004, 304 pages
Book 11: 2005, 784 pages
And here the author dies with the series unfinished, leading to the phrase "pulling a Jordan" to enter fantasy fans' vernacular, namely when they express their fear that Martin will eventually do so. Luckily a new author was hired to flesh out an ending based on Jordan's copious notes. Subsequent books came out in 2009, 2010, and 2013.

(Those are hardcover pagecounts, and lots of them have small print. The paperback for book 6 is over 1000 pages.)

There. Proof that it DOES NOT TAKE 5 years to write a damn book. Then 6 years to write the next, and so on. Anyone who thinks GRRM's publishing schedule is excusable is uninformed and misguided.

Sorry to come in here and go off on a minirant, but I'm just so tired of apologists who think fans should lighten up and cut GRRM some slack. I hear people saying that all the time and it's just baffling to me that anyone could think that way. George needs to sit his fat ass down and WRITE.

[OprahIsBlack]

Originally posted by Lucas32

The music for the trailers is so amazing

That song is epic, I had to go looking for it as soon as I was done watching that trailer for the 1st time.

[Ares]

Thank you, Oprah. It took George 2/3 years to write and publish A Storm of Swords. So when I'm seeing it's taking him 5-6 years in-between books now, I'm a little upset. Because he's VERY capable of writing faster, he just chooses not too. One could also ask how did it take him 2 years to write the best book, but 5-6 to write sub par follow ups. But that's another conversation.

[Lucas32]

Originally posted by OprahIsBlack

That song is epic, I had to go looking for it as soon as I was done watching that trailer for the 1st time.

The lyrics reflect everything that is about to happen so damn well
Somehow the line "your city lies in dust" fits almost every character's situation in Season 4.
---
I honestly don't care how long I have to wait as long as he doesn't die on us with 1 book missing

[Ares]

Feral Love and Cities in Dust were great trailer music. Just like Bones was for the S3trailer. Whoever is in charge of music knows what their doing.

[Smithy]

Originally posted by OprahIsBlack

(this isn't directed at you or any other poster, btw, just at GRRM himself.)

Let's all get real for a second and analyze whether it is truly necessary, and therefore acceptable, for GRRM to be taking so long with his books.

We shall turn now to most similar series to ASOIAF, The Wheel of Time. These are the two biggest and bestselling works of Fantasy literature by American authors since Lord of the Rings, and WoT was an influence on GRRM and its success paved the way in the publishing world for GRRM to be able to put out a large, multivolume single narrative work over a span of many years, so it is natural to compare the two works. Side note, Martin and Jordan are, to my knowledge, the only 2 fantasy authors to have more than 1 book debut at #1 on the NYT Bestseller list.

Let us look at the page #s and release dates for WoT.

Book 1: 1990, 688 pages
Book 2: 1990, 600 pages
Book 3: 1991, 624 pages
Book 4: 1992, 704 pages
Book 5: 1993, 704 pages
Book 6: 1994, 720 pages
Book 7: 1996, 720 pages
Book 8: 1998, 604 pages
Book 9: 2000, 668 pages
Book 10: 2003, 704 pages
Prequel: 2004, 304 pages
Book 11: 2005, 784 pages
And here the author dies with the series unfinished, leading to the phrase "pulling a Jordan" to enter fantasy fans' vernacular, namely when they express their fear that Martin will eventually do so. Luckily a new author was hired to flesh out an ending based on Jordan's copious notes. Subsequent books came out in 2009, 2010, and 2013.

(Those are hardcover pagecounts, and lots of them have small print. The paperback for book 6 is over 1000 pages.)

There. Proof that it DOES NOT TAKE 5 years to write a damn book. Then 6 years to write the next, and so on. Anyone who thinks GRRM's publishing schedule is excusable is uninformed and misguided.

Sorry to come in here and go off on a minirant, but I'm just so tired of apologists who think fans should lighten up and cut GRRM some slack. I hear people saying that all the time and it's just baffling to me that anyone could think that way. George needs to sit his fat ass down and WRITE.

I can understand how it might take a little bit longer to write the later books because the chapters are written from various characters perspectives and so it might take longer to flesh out the plotlines seeing as new characters are being introduced, but 5/6 years is just inexcusable, it's just being lazy on his part and taking advantage of the recent success of the series

[theREALslimSHADY]

I dint know TWOT series came out so soon! I guess upto 3 years is still acceptable to write a book of such scale, becuz really 300 pages per year are easily writeable. I think GRRM maybe one of those nitpicky OCD-ish people who keep finding tiny flaws in the book and keep changing it.
Considering that he moved many chapters from ADWD to TWOW and that he had like 400 pages completed in 2013 .. A 2014 release really wasnt that farfetched.

[Ares]

He keeps releasing these damn snippets. Which keeps making me second guess myself on where he is in the story and how close the book is to completion.

Like just finish it already. Damn.

[6 Apple St]

The fact that Dany is probably going to die

[Poe Dameron]

Originally posted by Wonderlust

The fact that Dany is probably going to die

She definitely is lol. They're building her up to have SO much power which will make it so easy for her to fall

[Ares]

If either of you says something like that again, you'll regret it.

[Poe Dameron]

Originally posted by Ares

If either of you says something like that again, you'll regret it.

Sis this is GoT, no one is safe

[Ares]

Originally posted by aidan_dolan

Sis this is GoT, no one is safe

Dany is

Take everyone else but not my queen

But seriously, I don't see it happening, at all. Dany is probably one of the characters I'm least worried about.

[Tinker]

Originally posted by Wonderlust

The fact that Dany is probably going to die

??

I doubt it. Unless it has happened in the current books that are out, she won't! The books are not finished so....

[6 Apple St]

Originally posted by aidan_dolan

She definitely is lol. They're building her up to have SO much power which will make it so easy for her to fall

Well, she did lose a majority of it when she left with Drogon. And with Victorion coming with the Dragon Horn I suspect that Dany will either

a) Lose a Dragon, most likely Viserion

or

b)Keep her Dragon as in a plot twist of fate, the Dragon Horn will awaken the Dragon Egg that was thrown into the sea, creating a Sea Dragon, I have this theory as since Victorion is a Greyjoy, whose sigil is the Squid and relates to the sea, also has a great ancestor who battled the Sea Dragon Nagga.

And will then defeat the Khal and take over the Khaleesar and will go back to Meeren to reclaim her Dragons. Then FINALLY get to Westero's and die.

[theREALslimSHADY]

Dont you people talk like that She's not my favourite charachter(probably not even in my top 5!) but nevertheless she is the one i wanna see win in the end!! her journey has been so epic! i still break a lil inside when i remember how the latter half of season 1 went for her, what with Drogo's and Rhaego's unfortunate tragic awful deaths!

[Tinker]

Dany is most likely the only Targaryen left. Plus remember she can't have kids.

She's the soul survivor of House Targaryen!

[Ares]

Originally posted by Tinker

She's the soul survivor of House Targaryen!

Well...uh...