Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-26296200-20151017191418/@comment-27723099-20151021212635

Arahadtheranger wrote:

CaptCaptain wrote:

ASOIAF is a disjointed, confusing, someone-shredded-a-bunch-of-medieval-biographies-and-pasted-them-back-together-with-some-fantasy-elements-mixed-in plot. I don`t care if it`s chock full of melancholy philosophy! This isn`t what the fantasy genre is for, G.R.R. Martin. I don`t need to be reminded of the mundaneness of existence, the cold-heartedness of people, POLITICS, the lengths some bastards go for money, power, or sexual satisfaction! I don`t WANT to be reminded of such things!

If I want a world with gray morality, political intrigue, war, magic, and dragons, I`ll play Skyrim instead and actually have fun! Who`s with me? Oh this is going to be fun. Lets start.

"Disjointed" Wait, what?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aj_uNZmcJaTddG9BVU5tRnJJTE5KcE5JRkFha1ZfNUE#gid=8

"Confusing" If you lack the time or intellect to understand some of the basic plots then you've got another thing coming, you won't be able to truly enjoy any piece of literature, unless you're into Biff, Chip and Kipper. The parts that ARE confusing are purposrefully shrouded in mystery, to relay how in the real world we do not truly understand everyone's intentions.

 "someone-shredded-a-bunch-of-medieval-biographies-and-pasted-them-back-together-with-some-fantasy-elements-mixed-in plot"  ''Oh sure, because the parts about a race of mystical frost beings, dragons, water wizards, blood magic, first men magic and such are completely medieval biographies? And you do realize nearly everything can be inferred in what you stated. Lord of the Rings, for example''

"I don't care if its chock full of melancholy philosphy!" So you don't care that it's well written with dark and mature themes? Are you 8?

The rest of what you said are what you NEED to know for real life, and oh, you can find those things in any other fantasy series. Lord of the Rings for example. Sauron and Morgoth,  Feanor, the Children of Hurin, the Kin-Strife. I could go on, but of course your narrow minded view doesn't allow you to accept that a series that is clearly too mature for you to understand is actually quite brilliantly written.

Unless you can give actual rasons as to why the series is bad, instead of "hurr I don't like it durr it's too mature"

Anyone notice how both people trying to rip on the series have had practically the same argument? That they're quite afraid of the maturity of the real world? ...???? And your arguement is "HA HA I`m more mature than you!!!!" Your argumentation is liek "I never read the series but I'm trying to make up some bad things from my mind and attribute them to the series". You last comment has shown that you haven't even really read or understood CaptCaptain's post.