Yeah, but at least in the first few books GRRM subverted a lot of fantasy tropes to shock the reader (our young hero getting disabled, his noble dad getting parodied, minimal magic, etc.) but then he got up his ass with world building and it got away from him after the third book.
We could've had an insightful takedown of high fantasy, but ended up with dragons, boobs, and gratuitous violence of all sorts.
high fantasy is cool
Yeah, but at least in the first few books GRRM subverted a lot of fantasy tropes to shock the reader (our young hero getting disabled, his noble dad getting parodied, minimal magic, etc.) but then he got up his ass with world building and it got away from him after the third book.