A song of Ice and fire discussion (spoilers incl A Dance with Dragons)

[danieladamsmith]

Don't you want to see if I drown or float first?

I would add that I really do appreciate what Martin has done with the series. It's incredible, it's vast, it's actually not even fantasy. It's political intrigue in the guise of fantasy......My comments are really about his plotting and the lack fluidity. Sure I tend to connect more with heroic and emotional storytelling. I should like ICE AND FIRE...but I didn't. I found it pretty tedious There are many narrative concepts I admire. I have often thought about writing a novel in which two characters meet in the middle with the first half of the novel moving forward in time and the second half moving backwards in time...I decided against it. Not every idea should be realized....and not every narrative idea works in every medium. Ice and Fire is perfect as a long form TV series, because then we aren't stuck with Brad Pitt playing Jaime or some other "star"...but I am not one of those people that want every book I love to be turned into a film or a series. I love Patrick Rothfuss' work. But Kvothe his protagonist is a very young character. You just know they'll manipulate his age and have someone like Jake Gyllenhaal play him...The inner voice of a character in a novel is fantastic. Once is gets thrown into a voice-over it loses it's power. I think the Elric novels would work best as animated features or cast Tilda Swinton to play Elric but that wouldn't ever happen. There's very little daring in mainstream filmmaking...