Game of Thrones wrapped up its eighth and final season in May. The finale, and the entire final season, was controversial. Some people enjoyed it. Others didn`t. Some thought it was fine. Whatever the case, the ending was a much-discussed event.But will the reaction to the final season impact author George R.R. Martin`s final two novels? It doesn`t sound like it. Martin told EW that he feels a `temptation` to change plans for his next item, The Winds of Winter, but he won`t do it. `That`s wrong,` he said about changing his writing based on how people reacted to the show. `Because you`ve been planning for a certain ending and if you suddenly change direction just because somebody figured it out, or because they don`t like it, then it screws up the whole structure. So no, I don`t read the fan sites. I want to write the book I`ve always intended to write all along. And when it comes out they can like it or they can not like it.`Martin said the internet has changed how fan theories are spread, and how much steam they pick up. In a time before the internet, only 1 in 100 people might accurately put together the threads of a mystery like Jon Snow`s parentage. But with the internet, if one person finds a clue, they post it online and then everyone else understands a plot reveal they might not have otherwise seen coming.Game of Thrones the TV show got ahead of Martin`s A Song of Ice and Fire series, upon which the show is based. Martin said he told Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and Dan Weiss `a number of things` related to his plans, and some of this ended up in the show. However, Martin`s novel series will take a different path towards its conclusion, it seems.`It`s like two alternate realities existing side by side,` Martin said about the show and his book series. `I have to double down and do my version of it which is what I`ve been doing.`As for when Martin plans to finish The Winds of Winter, well, you can probably guess his response. `It will be done when ...
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