thread: 2011-06-19 : Previously on Game of Thrones
On 2011-07-16, cc wrote:
Bravo on posts 18, 26 and 34, especeically Brand's use of "misconstrued".
I write as someone who has NOT seen the TV series, but has read the books, and also a fair quantity of historical material on the Wars of the Roses, which this scenario most resembles. This, for my my money, was a hugely refreshing change from most fantasy fiction, because it is historical and "sim" in the way Valamir mentions. Rather than the stock tropes of peasant-boy-undertakes-long-journey-becomes-king-in-the-end, this has real people in real situations doing and thinking exactly the kind of thing that real people did and thought in those situations.
I agree the story ran out of steam, as it were; I kept waiting for all the hinted-at fantasy tropes to kick off and they never really did. But I didn't care, because the depiction of real people was so compelling, and that's actually very rare in period pieces.
And who are you the proud lord said,
that I must bow so low?
Only a cat of a different coat
that's all the truth I know.
