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1 hour ago, The Bard of Banefort said:

If I had to guess, this show is going to be designed to “fix” S8: re-introduction of the White Walkers, a Val-like love interest, Jon as king of a reunited Westeros by the end of the series

Would George really be OK with HBO retconning the ending of his own series, before he even gets to write it himself no less? Are my expectations of him too high by assuming he'd have a problem with that? 

Also, re-introducing the White Walkers after it was established they all died during the Long Night is getting dangerously close to "Somehow, Palpatine returned" territory. At this point I'm half-expecting the Night King's return to be announced on Fortnite. 

3 hours ago, Ran said:

I don't expect George will be involved at all in it.

Hah, I'd wait to see that his next blog post isn't praising the writers of this and imploring us to watch to be sure about that. 

Soo, is this like a tacit admission that the book series will never be finished (assuming George signed off on it)? Otherwise, why work on a sequel based on a character who is still dead in the actual canon? I'm incredibly disappointed by this, to be honest. This franchise has turned into nothing more than a cash grab.