

a huge loss that earned him nothing whatsoever-a political maneuver so stupid and shortsighted that one can’t really call it a maneuver at all. This was an “out of the frying pan into the fire” moment for Sansa.

That’s gardening)).I’ve long argued that HBO’s Game Of Thrones jumped the shark not in its shoddy 7th season and not during the execrable final season, but rather the moment Littlefinger took Sansa Stark and pawned her off on the Boltons for no good reason whatsoever. But definitely not all) ((Of course, I could change my mind again next week, with the next chapter I write. “One thing I can say, in general enough terms that I will not be spoiling anything: not all of the characters who survived until the end of GAME OF THRONES will survive until the end of A SONG OF ICE & FIRE, and not all of the characters who died on GAME OF THRONES will die in A SONG OF ICE & FIRE. That’s while there will be some who won’t survive from the existing cast of characters.

Martin did add that there will be new characters in The Winds of Winter. “And really, when you think about it, this was inevitable.” Yes, some of the things you saw on HBO in GAME OF THRONES you will also see in THE WINDS OF WINTER (though maybe not in quite the same ways)… but much of the rest will be quite different. However, he added, “What I have noticed more and more of late, however, is my gardening is taking me further and further away from the television series. That means The Winds of Winter is still a work in progress, and Martin declined to give a detailed update. There are lots of devils in the details, though, and sometimes the ground changes under my feet as the words pour forth.” I generally know where I am going, sure… the final destinations, the big set pieces, they have been my head for years… for decades, in the case of A SONG OF ICE & FIRE. My stories grow and evolve and change as I write them. An architect would be able to give a short, concise, simple answer to that, but I am much more of a gardener. “Another question that I get a lot, especially since the end of GAME OF THRONES on HBO, is whether A SONG OF ICE & FIRE, will end the same way. Martin addressed that in his latest post. WGA Strike: Disney Using "Union-Busting Tactics," Guild Says Mouse House, HBO, CBS Demand Showrunners Work Despite Labor Action - Update
