https://youtu.be/ulUBDu_97z8?t=55s
>"We've all seen movies where the hero is in trouble, surrounded by 20 people but you know he will get away because he is the hero. I don't want my story to be that way. I want my readers to be afraid." - GRRM
what THE FUCK did he mean by this?
He has realised plebs care more about novelty and cheap surprises than actual substance.
>>9932039
dumb /tv/ cross poster
Like Akame ga Kill! GRRM wanted his readers not to know whether or characters will die, raising the stakes of the narrative
Also like Akame ga Kill! readers rebelled because it didn't feel like a hugbox and called it pointlessly edgy
>>9932064
>readers rebelled
So that's why the books were hugely successful and the TV show is so popular you're considered some kind of alien if you don't watch it?
>>9932064
An anime is pointlessly edgy? Shocking
>>9932046
It's clear that serfs either do not care about or do not understand thematic and philosophical subtext, and it's doubtful if GRRM understands either given his interviews