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(04-03-2012 04:27 AM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:  

It's excellent, the books (at least the first three) are the masterpieces of fantasy literature. Original, witty, exciting, realistic but magical at the same time, all the stuff that popular fantasy authors like Ted Williams and Robert Jordan will never be. The TV series took the books to the heart and were done perfectly. I would recommend it to anyone with all my heart in both its forms.

The only problem is that the author of the series, George R.R. Martin, has been stuck in some kind of a writer's block and, after publishing the not so great but still awesome 4th book (Feast for Crows), took almost 7 years to write the 5th (Dance of Dragons). The 5th book, despite all that waiting and rewriting, ended up extremely weaksauce, with almost all of the major and interesting characters dead, and the remaining ones stuck in indecisiveness and private fantasies and dreams. Nothing happened throughout all of its 1000 pages, there were a billion lame new characters (who also get killed) and new cliffhangers, and it was a major disappointment.

So while I love both the books and the show, I fear for its fate when it reaches Season 5. Both because the source material will become shitty, and because the 6th might not be ready by that time.

Maybe they'll rewrite the later seasons? :o