• Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    6·
    6 months ago

    So one Question I’m always asked. Who would win in a fight? Who would win in a fight if Galactus fought The Hulk, or if Thor fought Iron Man? And there’s one answer to all of that. It’s so simple, anyone should know this. The person who’d win in a fight is the person that the scriptwriter wants to win!

    -Stan Lee

  • ReputedlyDeplorable@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    Yeah GRRM thinks too much of his characters, he wrote a match between Jaime Lannister and Rand Al’thor, and Jaime won. Absolutely ridiculous a guy who can wield magic that can burn people out of time vs a guy with a sword.

  • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    >fights off 5 ringwraiths while protecting a gang of hobbits
    >kills like a hundred magically engineered supersoldiers so hobbits can cross a river
    >kills an unreasonable number more at Helm’s Deep
    >beats up an actual ghost
    >just one of those supersoldiers could easily kill like 10 regular humans, but here he is again just mowing them down
    >charges the entirety of mordor on foot: survives

    But yeah, I’m sure the regular human of above average skill will be fine.

  • rustyfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    I think GRRM would declare Ser Pounce the winner in a match against Kratos.

    I freaking love ASOIAF, but this guy talks way too much crap sometimes.

  • njm1314@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    What I always found weird about this, is that even in universe Martin makes a point that Jamie wasn’t as good as he thought he was. He ends up being humbled.

  • arymandias@feddit.deEnglish
    0·
    6 months ago

    It is a stupid question to begin with, and it was classy from George to give a straightforward answer, and maybe it would have been more classy to say that Aragorn would have won.

    But I don’t understand this antipathy towards George, he wrote some great groundbreaking fantasy novels just as Tolkien, and I’m happy I was able to enjoy both.

    • exocrinous@startrek.websiteEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      I tried to read A Game Of Thrones and it was so boring. It didn’t stay with one character long enough for me to get invested in their story. Too many characters, and not enough writing skill to pull that number off.

      I think George should have written a few simpler novels to practice good writing before he went and did a big project like this.

    • Gallahad_the_ger@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      6 months ago

      No, not at all. Neither of them shared a parent. They’re technically cousins, but the amount of generations between Arwen’s uncle and Aragorn make the familial link not matter at all