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DiapDealer · 03-31-2021, 03:36 PM

I actually think one of the few things GRRM succeeded at was making sure men and women were pretty fairly represented as being both victims AND inflicters of gratuitous violence, sex and sadism.

I also think people tend to remember the books as being a lot more graphic than they really were after they watched the show. The books only hinted at many of the things that the show made ridiculously explicit. I hated the show for that. The books were definitely not the Game of Gore and Boobs that the show turned out to be. I quit watching sometime in season 2.

I stopped reading after book four. The one that left out nearly every single character a reader might actually give a crap about. I wish I'd stopped after three.

03-31-2021, 03:36 PM	#123
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 28,668 Karma: 205039118 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	I actually think one of the few things GRRM succeeded at was making sure men and women were pretty fairly represented as being both victims AND inflicters of gratuitous violence, sex and sadism. I also think people tend to remember the books as being a lot more graphic than they really were after they watched the show. The books only hinted at many of the things that the show made ridiculously explicit. I hated the show for that. The books were definitely not the Game of Gore and Boobs that the show turned out to be. I quit watching sometime in season 2. I stopped reading after book four. The one that left out nearly every single character a reader might actually give a crap about. I wish I'd stopped after three. Last edited by DiapDealer; 03-31-2021 at 03:52 PM.