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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: albaby1 ✶❂🐝 GOLD
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Subject: Re: Carney, Alberta
Date: 09/28/26 9:28 AM
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He just needs to find a single resolution. Just picking an event at random: when Tyrion attains power (which he never really wanted). Maybe end there. Or end with the demise of the White Walkers.

Yeah, but that's where he's written himself into a bit of a corner by eschewing conventional narrative structure. His books don't have a protagonist. That's the consequence of the big break from genre norms from the very first book. So you can't get a satisfying ending by reaching the end point of a single character's arc. It would leave 90% of the other character arcs unresolved.

He could have hewed to conventional genre narrative structure in a way that would allow the White Walkers to be the culmination of the series....but he didn't. They're barely in the books, and they're certainly not the focus of the story - they're at most a background, shadowy threat that plays virtually no role whatsoever in the events of the novels. The written series is about the political maneuvering in the world, not a fight against the White Walkers. Five novels in, it's probably too late for Martin to make such a drastic pivot while still getting to a satisfying ending and without 'breaking' the tone and style of the series.
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