>>24832124
I tried to watch season one recently. Man it’s bad

>>24832124
Worldbuilding is hard. This was maybe my answer to Martin, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. A Song of Ice and Fire had a very shallow background: that if the king had a gold mine, he was rich. We look at history and it’s not that simple. Martin can say that Starks ruled the North for 9,000 years and commoners loved them. But Martin doesn’t ask the question: what was the Seven Kingdoms' fiscal policy? Do they collect a head tax or a chimney tax? What was their writing system in which they kept records? And what about the calendars? By the end of the book, we're told there are the long and short winters, but we still have no idea how long they spanned. Did the Targaryen kings pursue the policy of lunisolar astronomical observation and account for difference in length of Planetos orbiting the Sun? Even the leap hours and little infinitesimal leap minutes?

I don’t remember many details from this series and if Winds came out tomorrow I would have to reread the whole series just to know what the fuck is going on… and I’m just not going to do that. I’m not going to reread thousands of pages to read the penultimate book in a series I lost interest in years ago.

Delaying finishing up this series is definitely a flaw.

>>24833900
just watch a jewtuber yapp about it because they spend every waking moment analyzing it. If you care about any of the payoffs its your best bet.

>>24832124
Love the series, but Martin does not know how to accurately scale things. Renly had like, 100,000 soldiers. That’s unfeasable. And the startle have been ruling for 8000 years. In 8,000 years we’ve gone from hunter gatherer retards to conquerers of the sky, while the Starks are still using swords and living in the same castle they’ve lived in forever.

>>24835328
Sure having a 700ft ice wall is redundantly impractical.
But it is pretty cool. That's his main issue, aside from being incapable of finishing anything, he won't admit his fantasy is just pulp , and that's okay. Selling it as more accurate than tolkien or whatever is childish and a marketing scheme.

>>24832124
this post will die because nobody can name a flaw.

>>24833863
The same tired ass snarky slop.