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| Topic | SeabassDebeste ranks the Game of Thrones arcs [spoiler] |
| SeabassDebeste 03/01/17 11:03:55 AM #370: | Ah, it was an unclear statement since you're talking about Theon now as opposed to during the arc in question. I think GRRM worked hard to give his villains opportunities at redemption. In another 'not as unconventional as you might think' trope for GRRM, that redemption starts by finding someone even less symapthetic than the redeemer character. Locke/Vargo Hoat in the books (the guy who takes Jaime's hand) is scum who has no positive qualities. Theon gets to deal with the monstrous Ramsay. Tyrion doesn't need to be redeemed, but he does operate on the Lannisters' side during the War of Five Kings... but he's placed against Tywin. Who is astronomically less sympathetic in the books, mind you. As far as wanting Theon to stop being tortured, I didn't really care in Season 3. It's more a case of 'you don't want to witness it,' which is a pretty lame 'tactic' by the showrunners. --- yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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