Part of the reason I never watched the show was that they felt the need to add more sexual violence to a series that was already an intensely miserable slog of violence, torture, sexual violence, and extremely unlikable characters.
I actually really appreciate GRRM as a writer and really liked the show (sorry everyone) but I’m frustrated at how GRRM’s characters are frequently remarkably...foolish. Yes, much of the story is driven by the contradictions of feudalism, yes, the characters grow, but in the first book, Sansa and Eddard in particular just keep fucking up, over and over again, to a really frustrating extent, due to their pettiness and ignorance. Something about GRRM’s writing also seems extremely coddling to me, but that could just be because he’s a master of rhythmic sentences and paragraphs.
Sansa is a tiny child, it would be way more frustrating if the little kids weren't dumb as fuck because then I'd be asking why they weren't just written as older characters.
Ned just fucking sucks tbh but Sansa is a prepubescent child at that point and is a very realistic portrayal of one. She's actually my favorite character.
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Part of the reason I never watched the show was that they felt the need to add more sexual violence to a series that was already an intensely miserable slog of violence, torture, sexual violence, and extremely unlikable characters.
I actually really appreciate GRRM as a writer and really liked the show (sorry everyone) but I’m frustrated at how GRRM’s characters are frequently remarkably...foolish. Yes, much of the story is driven by the contradictions of feudalism, yes, the characters grow, but in the first book, Sansa and Eddard in particular just keep fucking up, over and over again, to a really frustrating extent, due to their pettiness and ignorance. Something about GRRM’s writing also seems extremely coddling to me, but that could just be because he’s a master of rhythmic sentences and paragraphs.
Sansa is a tiny child, it would be way more frustrating if the little kids weren't dumb as fuck because then I'd be asking why they weren't just written as older characters.
Ned just fucking sucks tbh but Sansa is a prepubescent child at that point and is a very realistic portrayal of one. She's actually my favorite character.
My first exposure was the show, and I still like the first four seasons, but yeah thats a fair opinion.