Winter is over.
Game of Thrones is over. Its television version at least. 8 seasons full of everything, good, bad and regular, but still dragging millions of followers around the world. And the controversy also by the end. But his literary version is yet to be written and its creator, George RR Martin, has talked about it saying that it will be different and much longer.
Just Game of Thrones
He did it last Monday after finishing a uneven eighth season, according to many, fantastic, according to others, and controversial ending, according to almost everyone. I confess to being one of those few specimens on the planet that only saw the first season and could not overcome the beheading of Ned Stark. So I don't lose the passion or unreason of the thousands of followers of this series today. Yes indeed, I have in my having one good and direct connection with... Jon Snow, who he already told us his readings some time ago.
George RR Martin takes stock
He tells it in his blog. Of how time has passed in a sigh since he embarked, more than a decade ago, in the project of the television series that would undoubtedly change his life. He had already done things for the small screen. But there was no way to know that the adaptation of that story that began with Song of ice and fire I was going to suppose what it has been: a worldwide and absolute success with millions of fanatic followers and the greatest television achievement for the network HBO, which had already achieved a lot of prestige with the magnificent Roma.
George RR Martin highlights not only the satisfactions or the innumerable awards. Also the fact turn a good but unknown cast (except for the exceptions of big names on the British scene) in planetary stars. Even he is amazed to be one of them too and he acknowledges that he is still not sure what happened or how.
Acknowledgements
Of course George RR Martin has a lot of people to thank, so much so that someone will surely be left behind. From the producers, the cast, the team or the network. But admit that there's too much to be thankful for. You will prefer to remember or write about favorite moments from the filming of the series when you feel nostalgic, because at the moment there are too many and you do not have time to do the justice they deserve.
An end but also a beginning
It is what Martin wants to think. That everyone in the series (directors, cast, crew ...) is going to disperse. There will be more projects for them on a thousand new sites and stories. And as for him, he will still be there and busy.
Projects
Because as a producer he has other five planned for HBO, of for Hulu and one with the History Channel. Some are based on their own stories and books and others from different creators. And of course, of course, he is writing because his winter is not over yet.
How will that end be
It's what they ask him over and over again. And if it will be like the (so controversial) of the series. But George RR Martin he prefers to play the distraction with the yes, no or maybe. And compare the work of the directors of the series, which had six hours for that final season. But expects to fill 3.000 pages in his next two books, and we'll see if he won't add more too (with more chapters and scenes) if he needs it.
As well invite readers to continue comparing how, for example, they have been different destinies of some characters in the books and in the series. So everything is still in the air and lent itself to speculation and controversy.
Finally throws a question to reinforce the enigma and continue to fuel debate among your readers and viewers. What will the "real" ending be? The one from the books or the one from the series? Well, we will have to keep waiting, it seems that some winter than another.