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Nrrr posted...

The fact that the mountain was a zombie already for years, and before that a total sociopath brute always made me wonder why people wanted cleganebowl so badly to begin with. As the hound noted, the mountain had no humanity in him to begin with. The only emotional satisfaction would ever be in knowing you stopped him from harming anyone else again. And of course the fight between a giant zombie man and another giant but not quite as giant brute would suck. The oberyn fight was great because of the contrast between them, an emotional and clever man with a quick and fluid fighting style going against pure brute force. Cleganebowl was always going to be that the hound is shittier at the same kind of fighting, so obviously he will just get his ass kicked until he pulls something out of it.

This is why I've never really cared for the whole Cleganebowl concept much despite the Hound being probably my favourite character. Gregor isn't a fleshed out enough character for us to even know what he thinks of his younger brother besides that he burned his face once, but the Mountain has a hair trigger temper at the best of times so no one knows if that was a sign of genuine hatred or just him snapping as he tends to do. And even if he was, he's been dead for ages. Gregor Clegane died from injuries suffered against Oberyn and having his corpse walking around doesn't make him the person Sandor has a lifelong grudge against. That guy is long gone. It's hard to feel much emotion about it with that in mind
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