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Originally Posted by Andsigil
Only if you like envisioning dystopia.
After both reading all of the books and watching the show up-to-date, I think I'm done with ASoIaF.
- Everyone you like gets slaughtered or broken
- Everyone you don't like gets slaughtered or broken
- Everyone in Westeros is miserable. Without exception. There isn't one happy person in the entire world.
- Westeros is as depressing as Oceania in 1984. It's even worse than Ohio.
I'm going to go read Cormac McCarthy's The Road to cheer up now. |
Seen like that it could be depressing, but I find the tv series strangely uplifting and some scenes soar. (Dany as Mhyssa springs to mind) I think its a realistic depiction of medieval shenannigans, (apart from Dragons obviously
) it was a brutal age and I look at it as I would the history of the Borgias or the Medici families etc. Its rich and ripe and not to everyones taste.
I also appreciate the way he writes female characters, he gives them agency whether they are little girls or old ladies, not just cliche feisty kick *** babes as in many tv shows. (I am looking at you Moffat).