tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post6441478178503505350..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Game of ThronesAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-78959840789929502642019-04-15T15:57:41.557-04:002019-04-15T15:57:41.557-04:00I never got into GoT because it's on HBO and I...I never got into GoT because it's on HBO and I don't do HBO. Then, 2-3 years ago, I ran into the Sad Puppies foofuraw and the Science Fiction Writers Association's Hugo Award fight, and Martin's part in that foofuraw, and decided I didn't need it.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-11498954086603205592019-04-15T11:28:39.097-04:002019-04-15T11:28:39.097-04:00I have the impression from far, possibly quite unj...I have the impression from far, possibly quite unjust, that it's simply dumbheaded. Odd, too, because I generally like fantasy quite a lot, but I can't bring myself to try it.<br /><br />I felt the same way about the Twilight movies, which I avoided for years, only to find this week that I rather enjoy them. They're classic chick lit, about sex and commitment. Men who can't commit don't even make it into the story line except as bad guys who make a brief appearance before being killed.Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-44149593699728874032019-04-14T22:03:18.525-04:002019-04-14T22:03:18.525-04:00I held the possible reworkings of "meaty urol...I held the possible reworkings of "meaty urologist" at the ready for 30 years, and two years ago, a psychiatrist friend got in with it five seconds before I did.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-6990159791990442182019-04-14T21:49:53.929-04:002019-04-14T21:49:53.929-04:00I swiped it from somebody else, who was writing ab...I swiped it from somebody else, who was writing about HG Wells.jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-20830460928937001432019-04-14T20:24:12.799-04:002019-04-14T20:24:12.799-04:00Darn! i have been wondering how to use the pun &q...Darn! i have been wondering how to use the pun "pot of message" for years. You beat me to it.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-12370887299947052732019-04-14T13:55:17.224-04:002019-04-14T13:55:17.224-04:00I stayed with Anthony a trifle longer--to the exte...I stayed with Anthony a trifle longer--to the extent of getting the occasional book from the library. He had completely mined out the possibilities in his original Xanth universe, and forays into other mythologies didn't mix so well. He was repetitive, and increasingly more shallow and PC. Other series from that era were "read one, that was more than enough." I gave up; he had "sold his birthright for a pot of message."<br /><br />I wasn't even aware he'd turned to porn--but apparently that wasn't new. https://boingboing.net/2010/06/14/piers-anthonys-pornu.html says he wrote the first one back in 1970. If that's accurate, he was writing that _before_ Xanth, though it wasn't published until later.<br /><br />You're right that he did try to introduce some more serious themes. I wonder if he dropped them because they made him uncomfortable (he _really_ doesn't like Christianity), or because readers complained, or because "serious" PC themes were more congenial.<br /><br /><br />Since we don't have cable, GoT was never an option, so I haven't kept up--but I was surprised that people were asking questions about how the series was going to resolve. "Didn't they read the books?" But from the review you linked I gather Martin never resolved the series in the books.<br /><br />Ambition against ambition never ends, even when somebody seems to have won the pot (just wait 'till next year!), so there probably isn't a way to resolve the conflict from within the environment.<br /><br />Presumptuously predicting from only having read the review, I'd guess that the houses band together to defeat the Night King, and backstab at the next to the last minute so that one house wins the pot and a temporarily defeated Night King gets away.jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.com