What doesn't help soften the blow is listening to GRRM talk about how he wanted 10 seasons but how he lost and they wouldn't go past 7 (and 'season 8' really was just the back half of 7...).
I tell you, the more I watch GRRM and D&D both talk, the more convinced I am that he had basically nothing to do with the show after he quit writing for them following season 4. I'm not sure whether there was a falling-out or not (I suspect there was) but I think he's just too polite and/or professional to throw them under the bus for what they did to his IP once they ran out of book material. He'll start to say something then spin off. Which is good since it wouldn't really do anything positive for him and he's got a lot of work going with HBO.
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