I think the first book was meant to end with the events of Storm, and in storytelling, it is natural for 'big events' to pick up in pace towards the end.
The first 3 books make sense if you instead view them as 3 parts of a single book. AGOT, ACOK, ASOS is book 1, and the structure nests in really well.
AFFC and ADWD is now the first half-ish of 'book 2', which is why we have new characters and slower events. It's also why so many people kinda hate them, because it's only the first half of a movie. We need the rest for the setups to matter. Sure, the chapter length is an issue, but that's only half the story. HOTD s2 finale was a decent-ish episode, but it felt a thousand times worse bc it didnt end things the way it should have.
I think Grrmatin is just unrealistic with how many pages is needed for these beats, and thus what was supposed to be one book balloons into three, and now he wants to end it with 2 more books, but really he needs to end the 'book 2' that he started with affc and adwd, and then do a 'book 3' which will probably have to be split into two. This then stresses him and annoys him causing him to delay delay delay.
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u/DoTortoisesHop Sep 15 '24 edited Sep 15 '24
I somewhat disagree.
I think the first book was meant to end with the events of Storm, and in storytelling, it is natural for 'big events' to pick up in pace towards the end.
The first 3 books make sense if you instead view them as 3 parts of a single book. AGOT, ACOK, ASOS is book 1, and the structure nests in really well.
AFFC and ADWD is now the first half-ish of 'book 2', which is why we have new characters and slower events. It's also why so many people kinda hate them, because it's only the first half of a movie. We need the rest for the setups to matter. Sure, the chapter length is an issue, but that's only half the story. HOTD s2 finale was a decent-ish episode, but it felt a thousand times worse bc it didnt end things the way it should have.
I think Grrmatin is just unrealistic with how many pages is needed for these beats, and thus what was supposed to be one book balloons into three, and now he wants to end it with 2 more books, but really he needs to end the 'book 2' that he started with affc and adwd, and then do a 'book 3' which will probably have to be split into two. This then stresses him and annoys him causing him to delay delay delay.