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 Originally Posted by wufwugy
Well, duh. My point is that the history sounds better and could be woven together more tightly. Maybe it couldn't, I don't know that much about it.
It's like how we hear all about Selmy's great battles in the past, but the story we have has nothing to do with them. Selmy wasn't even the greatest. Ned Stark's greatest battles were pre-GoT. Same with Jaime's. Just about everything in the GoT timeline looks like it was better during the preceding 20-40 years. I have a feeling the ending of GoT will not culminate to something as powerful as the Robert vs Rhaegar thing would have been. Tywin's diplomatic battles with Aerys sound way better than anything Tywin has done in the show. Ser Arthur Dayne vs the Smiling Knight sounds even better than Oberyn vs the Mountain. Some of the stuff Ned did after the fallout with Robert sounds awesome
Meh, it's a rich backstory, and maybe you're enthusiasm for the current arcs is waining, but I just see you saying the same thing if you had only heard about Oberyn vs The Mountain but were shown the fight between Dayne and the Smiling Knight (who.. what..?). That's the thing with literature vs film-- with the backstory your imagination can make it as awesome as you want, while film is much less open to imaginative embellishment. You can see this if you look to any continuum which has a heavily built up back story. For example, Star Wars-- I always felt the way you do about the GoT back story towards the Clone Wars. Then we got the prequels and, well, you know how that went...
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