Song of Ice & Fire Discussion:What do you want in the next 3 books? (SPOILERS)

[DanMcS]

Jaime Lannister and Sandor Clegane are villains, no matter how much Martin tried to make them sympathetic through the course of the books. They need to pay for their crimes.

 

[nikolai]

• I want to see what has happened to Benjen Stark - this has been a loose end for two and a half books! It has to be resolved soon.
• I want to see more of Theon Greyjoy. The last we know he was dragged off to the Dreadfort and flayed. But he's the rightful King of the Ironborn, and a cool character, we have to see him again soon.
• I want to see Stannis' doom get closer. I like the guy, but he's playing with shadowmagic, setting himself up in the Nightfort, it's not going to be pretty.
• I want to see Dany turn out to be the baddy. I don't think GRRM is going to go down the route of her being the hero.

 

[Berandor]

I want to see them finished before I die of old age.

As for the rest, I have trust in GRRM to make the story better than I could imagine or want. Maybe Arya will be the BBEG, maybe Sansa, maybe Jon - all I care is that it is told well, and that in the end, there will be some sense of closure.

 

[nikolai]

I want to see them finished before I die of old age.

I want to see them finished before he dies of old age.

 

[The_Universe]

I just want to see the series *end.* Long stories are great, but I want them to come to a satisfying conclusion, at some point. I don't want this series to suffer from Wheel of Time Syndrome!

 

[KenM]

IMO the reason this middle book is taking so long is because it orginally was not planned.

 

[nikolai]

I just want to see the series *end.* Long stories are great, but I want them to come to a satisfying conclusion, at some point. I don't want this series to suffer from Wheel of Time Syndrome!

I don't think there will be any problem there. The series is longer than GRRM originally expected it to be. But he's making sure there are plot arcs across each book, as well as across the whole series. There are plenty of terribly long and artifically drawn out fantasy series. I don't think ASOIAF is going to end up one of them though.

 

[Sarigar]

I want to continue to see at least 5-8 storylines per book all the way to the end. This is one of GRRM's little triumphs in this series.

 

[Particle_Man]

I think it would be cool if Arya ended up backing the eastern queen wannabe in exchange for some revenge action. Arya as a dragon rider would rock! Arya meeting the fake Arya would be interesting...

More on Tyrion, pretty please. Maybe he could hook up with Brianne. Brains and brawn, baby!

Spoiler

Was Cat undead? I thought she was just wounded and permanently mute.

And tons more on Jon Snow, and especially his close circle of friends.

 

[nikolai]

Was Cat undead? I thought she was just wounded and permanently mute.

She's not undead (in the horror "walking corpse" sense). She has been brought back from the dead though (like Beric) so she's alive, but her injuries are still there.