He also wrote a short story in which 1 armed Jaimie bested Rand al Thor. You can't take him seriously
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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
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
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Rand would no diff him even if he was still locked in the depression box
"You're talking mad shit for someone standing in baelfire range"
JRR-logic: "Well the reader probably likes Aragorn more, so yeah, he gonna die."
Who's Jaime?
The blonde dude lanaster who gets the metal hand.
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Jaime Lannister from Game of thrones
King Slayer vs a King
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 🤷♂️
Oh, well then I guess he's just not very good
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
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He wrote an unfinished soap opera in book form.
unfinished soap opera
Soap operas are designed to not finish. It was doomed from the start.
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