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    GOT - What's the big deal about it?

    'Action and awesomeness' sounds like a cheap American movie to me, so as I said, it didn't really sell it.
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    GOT - What's the big deal about it?

    So there ARE people here who didn't like it. The other day I was at a party and I heard someone say to his friend something along the lines of "Man, you can't go wrong with Game of Thrones, there's tits, there's action, awesomeness, more tits..." Needless to say, that doesn't really sell it to...
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    GOT - What's the big deal about it?

    Although I hate to say it, maybe archetypes would be hard to avoid in something so popular.
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    Women in fantasy

    My guess is that that is the point.
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    Listing - Inherently Bad?

    Why discredit something just because it has a certain trait? For me, the first version flows more and is more expressive, it says more about the person who's talking.
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    GOT - What's the big deal about it?

    I think I'd prefer to go with the source and read it rather than watch it.
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    Characters you can relate to?

    Aside from the word 'readers' being too general, it could be possible that writers and novelists perceive characters and how well they are done differently to other readers. Which, sadly, pretty much makes all our answers redundant. It's hard to be objective about your own work too. I'm with...
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    Women Have Always Fought

    The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire: Jack Weatherford: Amazon.com: Books Is this the one?
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    Women Have Always Fought

    I found that article incredibly interesting, because there are a lot of feminists who argue that it's actually wrong to try 'make a man out of a women', that making female characters to have 'masculine' characteristics is faux-feminism. They say that rather than seeing the inherent values of...
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    GOT - What's the big deal about it?

    Thanks guys. As always you're all very reliable and have sorted this conundrum out for me.
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    GOT - What's the big deal about it?

    Haha! Well what I've been able to decide is that I will definitely give the BOOKS a try and possibly skip the TV show.
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    Women in fantasy

    That doesn't seem to fair to me. What about little girls reading books then? Do you think they'd relate better to a heroine, of which there are usually less? I'm female and I related to Harry Potter and other male MCs just fine. It's normal for young boys to relate to heros but then it also has...
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    GOT - What's the big deal about it?

    You're quite right of course. Everyone knows what they prefer in a story. Asking how something 'should' be is just a way to open a discussion about it. I struggle with it too. Not because I write gory scenes in detail, but because most of my writing would come under a YA heading except for the...
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    Character Pics

    I definitely like to draw, I find it easier to describe a character after that.
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    GOT - What's the big deal about it?

    Fair enough. I think those complaints were mainly about the TV show.
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