Game of Thrones - Jon Snow *spoiler free, more or less*

"No, I don't thank you for the fish at all" (notindetroit) 12/27/2015 at 11:23 • Filed to: None

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I’ve decided that George R.R. Martin created this character as an example of the exact polar opposite of what defines a successful life.

Then again, I guess it beats being a hugely successful douchebag.

Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras > No, I don't thank you for the fish at all 12/27/2015 at 11:29

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You know nothing...just like him.

No really, you are right

davedave1111 > No, I don't thank you for the fish at all 12/27/2015 at 11:32

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I really don’t see that, myself. I think you’re reading far too much into absolute tosh, and George ‘even my initials need an editor’ Martin never gave any thought to his characters before he wrote them. They’re all just random actions, not the expression of complicated, multi-faceted personalities.

Let’s not beat around the bush here: Martin is one of the worst writers in a field unfortunately full of terrible writers (and that’s including David Eddings). It’s quite beyond me why his dreadful tripe was chosen for the big-budget treatment when someone like Robert Silverberg or Raymond Feist offers so much more. His work’s just tired-out derivative cliches, and I’ve played games of Scrabble with better-defined characters and a clearer plot.

davedave1111 > No, I don't thank you for the fish at all 12/27/2015 at 11:35

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Oh, let me put that in the style of a Gawker headline: Is Joffrey a Mary Sue?

Hahayoustupidludditeshutupandgohandcrankyourmodeltalready > davedave1111 12/27/2015 at 11:45

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*HOT TAKE ALERT*

Tohru > No, I don't thank you for the fish at all 12/27/2015 at 11:46

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Here I thought I was the opposite of a successful life.

davedave1111 > Hahayoustupidludditeshutupandgohandcrankyourmodeltalready 12/27/2015 at 11:51

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Er, what? I don’t think that phrase means what you think it means. I didn’t comment on the morality (or lack of it) of writing tripe. And it’s really not particularly contentious to say that Martin can’t write, either: those who like his books tend to do so despite the complete inability to write, rather than arguing he can write.

At the end of the day, Martin needs an editor so badly that when he goes to the loo he has to take an entire pack of loo roll to wipe with.