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Old 01-28-2026, 12:59 PM   #84
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Nope. I'd bet that he's going to croak and some other writer is going to be charged with finishing it and people are just going to complain about that too.

That way the Cult of Personality lives on.

"That wasn't GRRM's ending tho!! That wasn't his plan!!"

The man has no plan. He's stuck. It seems pretty obvious. He's cashing cheques and playing out the string.
In his defense, wrapping up a story like this is much harder than just jotting down whatever cool ideas you come up with. The classic example was "Lost". Great for creating a bunch of interesting mysteries. They did not stick the landing with the ending though.
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