As writers, what's your view of the whole George R. R. Martin writers block brouhaha.

[CyranoJ]

I guess for clarity what is unusual is...

Author releases half a story as book.
Television company adapts half that story and then goes on to make 'a' completion of the story.
Author has to make another completion of the story.

It's fundamentally different from

Popular author writes half a story, snuffs it, someone has a crack at finishing the story for them (either in the same or different medium and with or without the original authors notes)

I dunno, how different are those scenarios, really? What actual validity does the TV studio version in scenario one have as "completion," working from "notes"? AFAICS the answer is really "none," outside of the TV series itself, which had long since departed from the books anyway. It only seems different in detail, it doesn't seem "fundamentally" different.