Thread: Storm of Swords
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Old 31st March 2005, 01:52 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Re: Storm of Swords

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Originally Posted by AryaUnderfoot
Let's just agree to disagree here, Young Wolf. Or better yet, we could both agree that I'm right and you're wrong- whatever you're comfortable with.

See, if you cut out Sansa's chapters, for example, you wouldn't find out how much of a swine Joffrey is, how conniving Cersei is, the history behind Sandor Clegane, how Joffrey dies, how Jon Arryn was killed, etc. etc.

If you cut out Arya's chapters (Heaven forbid), well, for starters you'd lose a cool character, and you'd never find out what is going on outside of King's Landing and the battlegrounds, not to mention all of that delightful business with Jaqen H'gar and the valar morghulis code. Arya is going to grow into a much more interesting and important character, just you wait and see.

Also, in regards to your thoughts about them being added just to provide a dash of estrogen to the pages, I don't think so. They're too well thought out for that, and you just gotta have those roses among the thorns.
Hmmmm, well said. I see your point about Arya and it does look like she will be an important character in future books. Almost everything we found out through Sansa though, could have been seen through the eyes of Tyrion or Cersei, if GRRM had decided to include her earlier. So, at least we agree that the "Wild Child" doesn't get voted off the island. In ten years she may even be a bigger bada** than Jon.
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