George not writing the script again

Thanks, I thought I was going crazy when I saw this being reported everywhere yesterday. I could have sworn he said this quite a while ago and I thought I had just assumed it. I have enough reasons to think that I'm losing my long term memory, I don't need anything more contributing to that belief.

Trying to get TWoW out before S6 airs is the only mission Martin has left at this point. That's a deadline he can work towards because there is no hope that ADoS beats the end of the show. So you can see his sense of urgency in trying to meet this deadline.

It's a little funny because it's so late in the game for him to finally realize that he needed to prioritize this. There were 4 years prior to this that he more or less wasted with his head in the sand regarding this deadline.

If the show didn't exist, guaranteed that TWoW wouldn't even be half done at this point.

Remember the video of him spending an evening with Sibel, and there's an awkward scene of him showing her his action figure collection as she feigned interest?  It was like every middle school nerd's dream come true.

I think your being the definition of pessimistic but anyway...
Im going to keep watching regardless. so this doesn't bother me.
Then why do you care about the release of the books?

That's kind of arrogant of you to say, isn't it?
Still, I think your guesses are right unfortunately. I don't know what happened to Martin but he has been seriously procrastinating for a long time now. I mean, the universe he created is a piece of art and his books are just mindblowing to read. But that does not explain, in my opinion, a 5 years gap between books, at all. He managed to write aSoS (his most incredible one so far) in only two years... Now it has been what, 15 years since that, and we only got two more. It depresses me to think that.

And as much as I like the show, I think no adaptation should spoil the original material. This might be the first time in history that happens. This has nothing to do with the show being good or bad, it is just that every single person will read his final book with an at least vague idea of what will happen. So basically he created everything from this amazing world he writes about, but won't be the one to close the story. It sucks a lot. But that is more his fault than the show's. He had 7 years to publish two books, absolutely doable IMO.

Oh yeah, "show and books are different things", come on, as much as they claim this, the show is/has been based on the books, there is no way some things of seasons 6 and 7 won't be from George's plans, and spoil them to us. No way. I will keep watching it, I think, but this was a terrible lack of planning from Martin, terrible.