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Originally Posted by Boaz  Arianne Martell is gorgeous, rich, sensuous, and spoiled. Oberyn Martell was an insolent, arrogant, lecherous, jack-a-nape. Jon Snow was raised as a lord's son, adopted a direwolf, had thrilling adventures during which he broke every last rule of the NW and yet was pardoned to become their leader... a virtual king... and oh, by the way, he's destined to be the hero of the age. Robb Stark was a handsome young king. Danaerys Targaryen is beautiful, powerful, and destined to rule with her dragons. I could'nt give a fig about Dany, Robb, Jon, The Viper, Arianne, and BFS. The story that they are in is wonderful, but these perfect people bore me. And I never even mentioned any Tullys. I could go for hours on them! (Actually, Catelyn is now an intriguing chacter. |
I'd disagree that any of those characters were perfect. Arianne Martell was, as well as being spoiled, incredibly small minded, reckless, so on and so forth and ended up imprisoned for it. Most of the traits you listed for Oberyn are flaws and he died for his arrogance, Jon's one of the characters who has the most positive events occur in his life but he still has had to get over his inferiority complex about being a bastard and nobody liking him in training, wah wah wah. For me, the characters who are scarred and broken like Sandor or Lady Stoneheart are only slightly interesting, mirrors held up to people like Jon or Tyrion who try to do good things despite the flaws that could drag them down to a much lower level if they let them. The characters aren't perfect, they're flawed but that's what makes them more interesting than the usual "heroes" in many fantasy settings.
This is way off the topic of the most thrilling fight. I recently read The Hedge Knight and that book is mostly about fights and they're all really fun
I think the high point is the description of the days jousting though, things like the Grey Lion jousting without a helmet and the Humfreys and so on.