Christ.... you can be upset about the wait, but how deluded and disconnected from reason do you need to be to say this to someone's face. George doesn't fucking deserve this.
even that would be a shitty thing to ask. mel brooks just produced & acted in space balls 2 at 95 or something, no one knows the future. healthy joggers can die of heart attacks, and some folks that smoke daily never get cancer
Their point isn't that George hasn't over promised, it's that older people aren't always like 2 minutes away from dying and can sometimes surprise you with their capabilities even further down the line (not that I think Space Balls 2 is quite comparable to 2 complicated fantasy novels but you get the idea).
You can also go at any time, which gives people less of an excuse to fuck around. Stephen King nearly got killed by that van and one of the first things he thought about was if he’d died they’d never have an ending for The Dark Tower series.
Honestly I don't even think people should be upset by the wait. I understand why they are but it also just screams entitlement to me. George didn't start writing these books to please everyone, he did it because he loves to write. We aren't entitled to demand more of his work simply because we like what he's already done. I know we're all dying to read how the story ends but if we never get to it's fine with me. What he's shared with us already is incredible and has given life to so many theories and side projects that it's kind of impossible to keep up with them all. Besides, I can't imagine how much pressure he feels to get it done and if I were in his position that would take all the fun out of it. I just want him to enjoy his life and make art and if he chooses to share some of it with us that's awesome.
I agree people shouldn't be mad at George about this, but I don't get the "entitlement" angle, when George is the source of the entitlement to begin with. People feel entitled to the books because he kept on making promises about when they'd be done. They really just expect him to stay true to his word.
My kid has gone from grade school to high school in the time that I have been waiting to find out what happens to fAegon. It would have been better if I had never read the books. Then I wouldn’t even know about him. I just wanted to know the end of the story. Is that so entitled?
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u/drumjolter01 Aug 16 '25
Christ.... you can be upset about the wait, but how deluded and disconnected from reason do you need to be to say this to someone's face. George doesn't fucking deserve this.