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jesatria

ADwD Thoughts

Jul 15, 2011 22:27

Finished it last night, but I wasn't really up to doing a big post on it. So here you go! Contains a bit of angry fangirl ranting, just to warn you.

( Beware! This post is long & full of spoilers!!! )

doran, asoiaf, disappointment, squee, martells, books, sadness, anger

Comments 12

angerfish July 16 2011, 02:45:28 UTC

I kinda liked Quentyn better as an adorkable failboat. XD AND THEN GRRM FUCKING KILLED HIM. I feel like Gerris was supposed to be a Take That at people who expected him to be sexier. Which... whatever, GRRM. XD

Glad to see Doran's still rocking the drawn out metaphors. <3 XD

The rest in here I'll save for AIM.

jesatria July 16 2011, 02:54:05 UTC

Glad to see Doran's still rocking the drawn out metaphors. <3 XD

LOL it would've been awesome if he compared himself & Oberyn to blood oranges.

I'll be on AIM in a bit!

angerfish July 16 2011, 03:02:59 UTC

LOL it would've been awesome if he compared himself & Oberyn to blood oranges.

You know it happened. And Arianne was like "no, dad, no."

motodraconis July 16 2011, 07:11:29 UTC

Gotta admit, even though I'm not a huge Martell fan, Quentyn was treated pretty horribly. It seemed like rather too much to expect of him, to try and propose marriage to the most powerful single person in the Westeros world (due to dragons) with nothing but an out of date letter to prove his claims. I'd sort of expected more.

lodessa July 17 2011, 05:27:50 UTC

I honestly just don't know what the purpose of spending a bunch of time on Quentyn chapters was for. His journey was boring to me and once he got to Myreen all the info could have been covered by Barristan and/or Dany POV pretty much. Waste of pages for a straight dead end.

jesatria July 18 2011, 19:17:49 UTC

I know! Why make him a full POV just to kill him in the same book? GRRM Y U NO MAKE SENSE???

lodessa July 19 2011, 16:33:13 UTC

It is not even just that he killed him in the same book (I mean he killed Ned in GoT right?) but that during his POV nothing of note actually occurred. Honestly, I think that if GRRM had the time to really reflect instead of being in a rush to get the book out, I can't imagine how he would have NOT cut the POV out.

lunylucy July 17 2011, 23:41:10 UTC

*clings to new ship since Dany/Quentyn was literally KILLED IN A FIRE.*
MUST. NOT. LOL.

Oh if only Quentyn was as hot as Oberyn and as smart as Doran.. Although as it stands I now know I'm definitely a Martell because Id be pretty much Quentyn :P (Except, y'know, a girl).

haremstress July 29 2011, 00:45:40 UTC

After Quentyn died I basically stormed around yelling about it, and the bf suggested I write a fix fic, which I jokingly agreed to. But since I'm not much of a fic writer, I'll leave it to you. XD

GOOD POINT about the Mummer's Dragon. That makes me feel a little more confident that Aegon is a fake. (I'm not a fan.)

jesatria July 29 2011, 02:02:29 UTC

I'm thinking of doing an AU where Oberyn goes to Dany & either Quentyn or Arianne goes to KL. Given her taste in men, Dany'd have been all over Oberyn. Not that I'm actually gonna write Dany/Oberyn, but that would've worked better.

Of course, I'm writing epic Kushiel's Legacy fic right now so I have no idea when I'll get to this.