George RR Martin Says He Wishes He Had Finished The 'Game Of Thrones' Books Faster So The Show Hadn't Gotten Ahead Of Him

Vulture- Going into the final season of Game of Thrones, we know the HBO series is going to end things differently than George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Fire and Ice books, if only because they’ve changed a lot already over the last two seasons. Plus, Martin hasn’t finishing writing The Winds of Winter yet, which is only slated to be the second-to-last book in the series. But still, Martin had rough plans for how the book series would end, which he shared with Game of Thrones creators Benioff and Weiss, and their ending will come out before his does. Martin told EW he has “mixed feelings about that,” saying, “Obviously, I wished I finished these books sooner so the show hadn’t gotten ahead of me. I never anticipated that.”

But in something of a concession to Martin and the book readers, Benioff and Weiss also told EW that they’re not planning to reveal how exactly their version of events differ from the plans Martin had for his books. “Now that the show is ahead of the books, it seems the show could ruin the books for people,” Benioff said. “So one thing we’ve talked to George about is that we’re not going to tell people what the differences are, so when those books come out people can experience them fresh.”

Uhhhhhhhhhhh yeah no shit, George. Thank you Captain Obvious. We wish you had finished the books faster too. You created this great world with great stories and great characters and it turned into a show and then you just didn’t finish the books to the point where HBO got done waiting and are now going to finish it for you. It’s too bad man.

Actually you what? I don’t care anymore. I hate to say that but that’s the situation George has created by not finishing the goddamn books. The TV show has outpaced the books and now the only story I care about is the TV show. George can finish the books with a different ending and I will not care in the slightest. Whoever finishes first gets the spoils of having the ending that matters. Like it or not, that’s the reality. Benioff and Weiss get to pick how this thing ends now.

By the way, it’s not like George was pressed for time. He finished the first book in like 1996. This shit has been in the works forever. Now, he obviously couldn’t have predicted that his books were going to turn into one of the biggest and most popular shows of all time but still. At some point HBO came to him and was like, “We want to make this into a show. We think it can be huge.” It’s at that point that George should’ve put his nose to the grind stone and finished the books so he could have the ending he wanted. Instead, he didn’t and now someone else gets to write the end of something he started.

I’d venture to guess that this is part of the problem in terms of speed

This is the shit George is typing out the Red Wedding and killing all of our favorite characters on

I get that it’s a process and everybody does it differently but maybe if George had bought a Macbook Pro he would’ve finished the books awhile ago. That’s all I’m saying.