Dude was ever a screenwriter, not an author....and not a real good screenwriter at that.
Meh you do art for yourself not your audience. If he wants to make millions off his talent good on him.
Hard disagree. He's not doing art at this point, rather monetizing everything he can get his hands on. He's ripping off the fan base and grabbing as much bag as possible doing so. Unless you think artists never do that, then I got nothing for you.
At some point, he ceased creating it, but he DID create what's there, after all. At this point, he may not be creating art, but he's certainly exploiting the art he's already created. I think that's what Ouchie is saying. If you had a bestseller 15 years ago, wouldn't you take advantage of it if there was still some sort of demand for it? Regardless of what you are doing now?
Ya, you can read and read and/or watch and watch to see what ends up happening to certain characters only to have him never come back to it or wait FOREVER to come back to it. Your fault not his.
Ya, you can read and read and/or watch and watch to see what ends up happening to certain characters only to have him never come back to it or wait FOREVER to come back to it. Your fault not his.
Ya, people was WAY TOO EXTRA on GoT.
That depends on where you are in life. When you're 75 with not the greatest health and more money than you can spend you should be thinking about your legacy. Right now his legacy is a good writer who can't finish. He wanted to subvert Tolkien and he's succeeded at this point. Tolkien finished LotR.
Except you aren't in a position to say whether he thinks this is bad for his legacy or not. Maybe he doesn't care being a good writer who doesn't finish. He's making the choice to not finish his series, but he's likely not too upset since the checks from Warner Bros keep coming in.
He's always cared about his legacy. This isn't something I'm pulling out of my butt. He's written about it. Based on what he's said in the past I can almost guarantee that he wouldn't be happy with what his legacy will be if he had a heart attack today. He wants to be mentioned in the same breath at Tolkien. That's not happening now. At least not in a positive way.
So what? Even if that is true, what do you care?
Exploiting is the word. And your scenario isn't remotely similar to what he's doing. I wouldn't begrudge him if he was desperate for the money to secure his life. It would still be exploiting and duping the fans, but at least there'd be a good reason. When you're filthy stinking rich, mo money, mo money,, mo money is just a dirtbag approach to the fans. It's repugnant and disgusts me. That isn't an artist--it's a con artist.
Incorrect. When he wrote the first books, he wasn't even close to being what he is now. You can't retroactively condemn him because of that.
You know nothing, Stout
Exactly, he was hungry and had drive when he started. Now he's trying to rest on his laurels by milking the remaining fans. I'd have more respect for him if he at least came out and admitted that the books are dead instead of stringing everyone along for 4664 days now.
Who's talking about when he wrote the first books? Of course he wasn't what he is now back then. He wasn't exploiting anyone back then either. Now, when he is exploiting fans, he wants for nothing. He's stinking rich. I can absolutely condemn him for exploiting fans now that he's made his bag, and then some.
You're basically trying to convince us that Martin is a con artist for not finishing his book series. That's a bit extreme, even for you.
No, he's very much involved in every stage, which is part of the problem. He's still an artist, but continues to profit off everything milked from the original series without, you know, finishing the series. I'm not saying he isn't an artist. He just feels more like a con artist to me nowadays. What he does offends me as an artist and as a writer. It's just gross.
agree.
Yeah as long as the flak doesn't bother him, he can do as he likes. If he whines about the flak, he has plenty of space where the sun don't shine where he can shove it
