Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-26296200-20151017191418/@comment-25533095-20151021110726

Arahadtheranger 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? If you don't want to be reminded of those things then you're going to have a really bad time in the real life.

And fantasy genre can be for anything that is fantasy, and ASOIAF sure fits that. It is excellently written and not confusing at all. It took some Medieval inspiration but not biographies. Don't you think it was amazing to see Jaime Lannister shift from ultimate bad guy to a favourite of the crowd?