tomstuart posted:

Fergus Mac Roich posted:

there are bugbears

Wafflz posted:

This is a great sig that would make a lot of (deserving) people very upset.

Blurry Gray Thing posted:

Yeah.

First book was okay if only for its gimmick (people die a lot). It's a pretty good gimmick. Most people don't do it because killing off characters the audience care about is a good way to end up with a plot full of worthless poo poo-people, but it's still neat to have a story about a violent setting where people really can die. Then it just gets bogged down and slows to a crawl.

Then the gimmick changes and it's suddenly all about "undermining your expectations", non-stop. You can pretty much hear the fat man who wrote it giggling in every paragraph. Bet you thought it was one way, but it's another. Bet you didn't see this coming. Haha, I tricked you! He just stops writing a story and starts playing assgrab with his fandom or something and it's impossible to give a poo poo. Then magic goes from being uncommon to hella overbearing and really ill-defined, because he needs to pull new magic out of his rear end for his latest expectation-subversion.

The show is doomed. The books just get irredeemably bad.

drat horror queefs posted:

Decebal posted:

You actually think that is from the hbo show ?

Moridin920 posted:

It's poo poo and they hate it but somehow there's multiple GoT threads with tens of pages each. Get over it assholes it's fine to consume media that isn't literary masterworks once in a while to unwind.

Killed a Girl in 96 posted:

I was going to make this thread 3 days ago but I didn't have anything to put in the op aside from "it's really bad". But hell, this is gbs.

Game of thrones is boring and lovely.