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⌈ Secret Post #3733 ⌋

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[Elementary, Kitty Winter]

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Waiting four years for A Feast for Crows to come out after a Storm of Swords, only to be met with its mediocrity, killed like 80% of the goodwill and passion that the first three ASOIAF books had built in me. Then waiting another 6 years for A Dance with Dragons only to get....that...well, fuck it.

Also, Boardwalk Empire in general, and then specifically, Michael Shannon's character.

Word. A Storm of Swords was tight, and of course you had the Red Wedding shocker so expectations were high for the next book. But by then the series had gotten really messy and all over the place. I think splitting up the POVs was a bad idea, too.

Same, the only characters I was interested in anymore were only in AFFC, so there was no draw for me to finish ADWD. (So I didn't.)

Honestly, I'm not even picking up ADWD until A Dream of Spring is out.

I read these books in 2012 and we're still not closer.

It feels strange to say this, but ASOIAF really does seem to start suffering from "too much plot" starting at ASOS, and it just becomes really blatantly obvious during AFFC and ADWD. And because of how spread out it gets, geographically, it becomes more and more difficult to maintain interest in whichever characters aren't your personal favorites, because now they aren't just boring, they're also far away from the people you care about and the action you're subsequently most invested in.

Right, looking back, I think it was whatever point at which I realized the Stark siblings were never going to reunite that really killed it for me because there was no longer an emotional end-point for all this drama to build toward. I don't give one pun-intended shit about Dany, or Tyrion, or Sam, then Arys Oakheart, all the various Martells, the 39 blighted Greyjoys, or whatever, who are all these new people and what the fuck do they have to do with anything, what happened to the characters I actually know?? And seemed to be central to the central story?? There used to BE a central story. Why am I supposed to give a shit about an Areo Hotah POV chapter when Jaime Lannister only gets one chapter in this entire book? Arya gets only two??

It has become a fantasy soap opera in the worst way: with infinitely spooling threads that had no shape to their plots or resolutions in sight but could be let to spin out eternally as old characters died out and new characters were brought in ad infinitum. LIKE....I don't have time for that shit.

I'm going to bed. :)

YMMV, I guess, I fucking LOVE Boardwalk Empire. shrug

I loved it up to a point. I had (to my surprise) been a huge fan of Michael Pitt's acting and thought he was often better than Steve Buscemi in the same scene, and when he left, my interest in the show took a dive. Then it was revived somewhat, but then that bloody massacre scene with Bobby Cannavale happened, which was predictably staged so that the naked woman he was fucking would be killed and sprawled in a sexual position the camera could pan over, made me fed up with this dumbass macho bullshit. So shrugs all around.

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