this is hilarious but also im gonna cry like this teenage gamer died and they buried her with her high score. no one took back the pot or divided it up because no one would play against her again. her family and friends buried her with her wins. im crying
well i don’t care what anyone’s preferred way to engage with the series is, like, if you’re mainly interested in those five characters (and are these bran enthusiasts in the room with us right now) that’s fine. it’s true there are certain characters that come close to occupying the narrative space of a protagonist within the series (bran, dany, and jon obvs) but i also don’t care much for talk of them as the only ones that matter. how grrm outlined his original notes is not of any concern to me, i’m only engaging with the text. and the way i see it those 20+ povs are not meant to be extraneous or tangential to the larger plot, which supposedly centres around five characters. they are all intended to be in conversation with each other and with series themes at large. a question raised in davos’s chapter (“If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is either good or he evil”) may be answered in sam’s (“When Craster’s wives brought onions, he seized one eagerly. One side was black with rot, but he cut that part off with his dagger and ate the good half raw.”) and then bran’s chapters (“If ice can burn then love and hate can mate."—the series is about dualism, not absolutes) and claiming otherwise is doing bit of a disservice to grrm’s storytelling capabilities, no?
