>be a postmodernist cuck>fail to finish your work
>>24725342How exactly is he postmodern? I see nothing in common with him and, say, Pynchon.
>>24725342>Postmodernist You don't know what that means
>>24725342>postmodernistYou people really have to stop using this as shorthand for "has gay characters and brown characters and women characters," it just confuses everyone
>>24725367OP doesn't have a very big vocabulary, he has to use what he knows.
>>24725342The most convincing argument I've seen as to why Martin is not releasing the last book is that the HBO ending was his idea and he doesn't have any other ideas without proving Tolkien was right.
>>24725367>>24725415>>24725422I am a simpleton. Please tell me whats post modernism?
>>24725447Even if we ignore the HBO series missing entire storylines and characters, thus making it very different from a book ending, the execution needs to be noted. Or lack thereof, for the HBO one. A retard writer can do the same thing as a better one and still fuck it up terribly.
>>24725415Neither does Gurm.
>>24725455The characters it skips are nothingburger characters that weren’t going to be relevant anyway
>>24725367>>24725415>>24725422Triggered post modernist cucks spotted
>>24725447I very much doubt the HBO version bares any real resemblance to the ending of the books considering how much the show went off the rails. They were completely throwing out whole plotlines from the books before they even caught up with the last volume, and by season 6 the show was almost entirely fanfiction.
>>24725474lol people like you said the same thing about Euron and Aeron Greyjoy only for the show to eventually go "uhhh actually we need to introduce Theon's uncles!"
>>24725676Somehow i doubt that fat fuck is using stream-of-conciousness or breaking the narratives of established storytelling.
>>24725689That’s because Euron is not actually a nothingburger character. He’s going to be in some way important to the ending. What we saw was just D&D’s MCU brained interpretation of whatever vague idea Gurm gave them. >AeronLiterally an extra. Notice you forgot they already introduced him in like Season 2
>>24725713>>That’s because Euron is not actually a nothingburger characterWhich people like you were wrong about. I remember seeing people excusing him not being in the show with "he doesn't matter". Until suddenly he did. Your entire basis for insisting characters like Aegon don't matter is circular reasoning.
>>24725452It uses a lot of pastiche, fragmentation, nonlinearity, metanarrative tricks, stream-of-consciousness etc. It's very much like modernism and the definition is somewhat blurry with a lot of people going "Ackshually the Recognitions and Tunnel are high modernism, not postmodernism. And Suttree is modernist, while Blood Meridian is postmodern. Also Infinite Jest is metamodern, not postmodern."Either, way, the term has absolutely nothing to do with GRRM.
>>24725720Thank you anon.
>>24725685Those plot lines were nothing burgers
>>24725717Euron appears in the show exactly when he appears in the books, that’s one thing about his character they got biblically accurate. Don’t know what kind of arguments you were having wondering why he wasn’t showing up earlier. >AegonAegon is the most cut and dry example of a nothingburger character. His story in the books isn’t even about him, it’s about Jon Connington, Dany’s visions even come back to being mainly about JonCon.
>>24725342His unfinished work will be more influential and beneficial than the work of your favorite authors.
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>>24725769I don’t think so Tim
>>24725734>Aegon is the most cut and dry example of a nothingburger character.And what's your basis for saying this? The fact he doesn't show up at the end of the TV show. Circular reasoning.
>>24725868He’s not even POV character of his own story (hint, hint, Robb Stark)He’s not even endgame of Daenerys’ visions about his storyAnd yes, he doesn’t even appear in the TV show. In fact elements of his character aren’t even cribbed for other characters in the TV show, like JonCon into Jorah or Arianne into Ellaria Sand. Dude is just not destined for importance. All signs point to it.
>>24726163>He’s not even POV character of his own story (hint, hint, Robb Stark)Robb stark was still in the show so I don't know what kind of point you're trying to make. Are you arguing Robb Stark "didn't matter" and should've been cut from the show? You sound like a complete retard.
>>24726192Was Robb Stark important to the ending?You’re the one who keeps constantly moaning about the show. Sorry they cut Aegon or whatever but if you couldn’t predict he was going to be a flop from the books you weren’t paying attention.
>>24726197Yes, Robb Stark is important to the story. Leaving him out would've been a dumb decision. You just argue from this completely false premise that "if character dies at any point they're not important!" I Guess we should've cut Ned Stark and Robert too, after all they die in book 1. Can't have been that important to the story.Idiot.
>>24726212>the story That’s not the question that was asked. And you know that. It’s if he’s important to the ending. Which he obviously isn’t given he died in book 3.The pattern of Aegon’s story in many ways seems to directly mirror Robb Stark, or Renly Baratheon, or Joffrey, or any other the other kings that were always destined to get axed before the end with no role in the resolution. Any cursory reading of the text will tell you the most important detail you need to know about Aegon’s story, it’s about JonCon.
>>24725342He might actually be worth reading if he were a postmodernist
>>24725474You need to reread the books if you think that's the case (wouldnt blame you if you didnt). And even for the more relevant characters, they're still severely underused and fucked up. Like show vs book Euron. If you hate George, that's fine. He's a massive gay asshole for not finishing his story. But that doesn't mean you should discredit the quality of his writing by comparing it to Dan and David's HBO slop. Not to say that his writing is perfect, we all could have dome without Dany shitting in the wilderness.
>>24725342>write daenerys of arabia>leave chekovs thorazine lying around in every scene>bunch of dumb millennial women watch your show>they love her, instead of Arya, who is the obvious hero>daenerys finally has a (permanent) melty>"WHAT THE FUCK THIS IS LIKE THE WORST THING TO EVER HAPPEN WROST SHOW EVARRRRR!">george: okay, fuck you all then. im not writing it.
