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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

He also wrote a short story in which 1 armed Jaimie bested Rand al Thor. You can't take him seriously

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hadn't read this before, link for anyone else interested: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2010/04/10/trial-of-seven/

Jaimie besting Rand doesn't really make sense there tbh, even with the conceit of taking away Saidin

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah take away Saidin and Rand is still a master swordsman. He was shielded and killed was able to kill 2 warders, one of them unarmed and the other with the first one's weapon.

I think GRRM did admit he was taking the piss a bit with that one to be fair to him

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Haha! What a dummy. Rand Al'thor, the champion of the Battle of Dumai's Wells, The Dragon Reborn, the man who broke the world, was bested by a sister fucker with one hand? Okay then!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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Rand would no diff him even if he was still locked in the depression box

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

"You're talking mad shit for someone standing in baelfire range"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

JRR-logic: "Well the reader probably likes Aragorn more, so yeah, he gonna die."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The blonde dude lanaster who gets the metal hand.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Jaime Lannister from Game of thrones

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

King Slayer vs a King

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

So one Question I'm always asked. Who would win in a fight? Who would win in a fight if Galactus fought The Hulk, or if Thor fought Iron Man? And there's one answer to all of that. It's so simple, anyone should know this. The person who'd win in a fight is the person that the scriptwriter wants to win!

-Stan Lee

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Gg, Im the perfect amount of drunk to actually very literally lol at this. Am I embraced by this. Perhaps.

But do I imagine Aragorn wondering where that -0hp damage is coming from? Perhaps.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

It is a stupid question to begin with, and it was classy from George to give a straightforward answer, and maybe it would have been more classy to say that Aragorn would have won.

But I don’t understand this antipathy towards George, he wrote some great groundbreaking fantasy novels just as Tolkien, and I’m happy I was able to enjoy both.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Martin is a troll, so he gets treated like a troll. It's as simple as that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I tried to read A Game Of Thrones and it was so boring. It didn't stay with one character long enough for me to get invested in their story. Too many characters, and not enough writing skill to pull that number off.

I think George should have written a few simpler novels to practice good writing before he went and did a big project like this.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I read the first book back in the 00s. This was just before everyone was making these epic, high production TV series. Even so, my first thought was, this would do well as an HBO/Showtime/cable series. My second thought was, I'm not going to bother reading any of the other books. Too many characters that I not only didn't like, but could keep track of. Having a different chapter for each character, and jumping back and forth, not for me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think George should have written a few simpler novels to practice good writing before he went and did a big project like this.

Guy's been writing professionally since 1970; his first full length novel was punished in 1976; he had been awarded two Hugo awards, six Locus awards, two Nebula awards, a Bram Stoker award, a World Fantasy award, and a couple Emmys before he even published A Game of Thrones.

Him having no experience writing shorter works is extremely evidently not the problem.

Him not having written something on the scale of A Song of Ice and Fire before, and writing himself into a gordian knot of plotlines and characters his aged brain might not be able to untangle, on the other hand, might.

Or he simply lost interest and would rather write about gridiron in his not a blog. 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh, well then I guess he's just not very good

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

he had been awarded two Hugo awards, six Locus awards, two Nebula awards, a Bram Stoker award, a World Fantasy award, and a couple Emmys before he even published A Game of Thrones.

Oh, well then I guess he's just not very good

🤦‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

He wrote an unfinished soap opera in book form.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

unfinished soap opera

Soap operas are designed to not finish. It was doomed from the start.

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