Carlton Supporters Club

Thanks for all your well wishes guys, most appreciated  Saw the writing on the wall 3 years ago but was locked into Franchisors Contract and couldnt get out without significant Financial payout. Secured Full Time work away from the business then, so future looks good now and I get my nights and weekends back rather than working in the shop....80 hours a week now becomes 40..woo hoo

Watched a bit more of the Last Kingdom and it has improved...probably lacks that un predictable story line of Game of Thrones but its easy to follow and entertaining...

Take a look at The Expanse. Reminds me of Babylon 5 from the 90s. Big budget sci fi TV shows will be the next big thing after Game of Thrones success.

Take a look at The Expanse. Reminds me of Babylon 5 from the 90s. Big budget sci fi TV shows will be the next big thing after Game of Thrones success.

Is GOT really sci fi?

The thing about Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire is that its not so much the fantasy elements that appeal to folk.

It's the story line, the political dealings, relationships and the odd technique of Martin's of killing off popular characters just as you've become committed to them.*

Yep..There's dragons and witches and zombies but they're secondary to the main political theme.

A bit like Star Wars, it will be a hard act to follow.
People will try, but any copies will find it difficult to match the same level of popularity as the groundbreaking originals.

(*and of course the sex and nudity in the TV show)

Another question is who is going to finish the series now that Martin has had enough?  I can't blame him though; he's getting on, he's got more money than he knows what to do with, and the complicated plot was doing his head in.

I was looking forward to reading the next book and now I'll have to hope that someone else can bring Martin's story to a close while maintaining his style of storytelling.

As for GoT setting a trend for future TV shows, I think it will be the formula rather than the genre that is followed; intrigue, power, conflict, families, violence, sex and nudity

AGEING multimillionaire George R R Martin has stopped writing the next Game of Thrones book while in the middle of a sentence.

Halfway through The Winds of Winter, Martin typed ’Tyrion looked darkly at’ when he suddenly realised he was already very rich and quite old.

He said: “I was a hundred thousand words into this thing where I’ve got armies in one continent, zombies in another, dragons burning things all over the place and numerous uninteresting sub-plots involving minor noblemen whose names I cannot currently recall. It is, by anyone’s reckoning, a screwing nightmare.

“I was looking at several more months of inhumanly hard graft and even then everyone is bound to slag it off as ‘unsatisfying’.

“Meanwhile it is a lovely day outside and I am an older man with more money than I can possibly ever spend.

“You tell me why I should finish this? It’s an honest question. Someone else can do it if they like, I’m cool with that.”

Where did you hear he wasn't going to finish the books?
As far as I've heard the Winds of Winter is due for release next year.

Author George R.R. Martin has announced on his official blog that "The Winds of Winter," the sixth book in the 'Song of Ice and Fire" series of which "Game of Thrones" is based on, will not be out and on store shelves before season 6 of the show premieres this April. As a matter of fact, the book may be pushed to 2017.

"Believe me, it gave me no pleasure to type those words," the author explained. "You're disappointed, and you're not alone. My editors and publishers are disappointed, HBO is disappointed, my agents and foreign publishers and translators are disappointed... but no one could possibly be more disappointed than me."

His statements do confirm, however, that he is still busy working on the book and that it may see a release soon. However, fans now speculate that the book won't see a 2016 release given how much content the sixth book will contain and that it may be pushed as far as next year.

Haha good one Lods  He always says that and then disappoints. The idiot spends too much time at conventions and hanging out with his adoring fans. He owes his fans to lock himself away somewhere way up in the Rockies and just finish the bloody books. To the standard of the first 2. They were easily the best. Easily.