[ SECRET POST #3815 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3815 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Your inconsistencies

[ketita]

I don't like GoT/ASOIAF in part because of all the rape and whatnot
and yet I like Berserk

I have no explanation nor excuse.

Re: Your inconsistencies

[(Anonymous)]

Could it be because one is drawn, and the other's live action/written? A lot of people find comics/animated stuff less visceral, so they can enjoy things that would normally put them off because there's more of a remove.

Re: Your inconsistencies

[ketita]

Well, by that logic I shouldn't be so bothered by ASOIAF, because it's described rather than portrayed visually... and tbh, there are pages in Berserk that I kind of skim over quickly because urgh.

I think that it actually has more to do with the characters, for me. I watched the (far less horribly violent) Berserk anime way back when, and I really liked all the Band of the Hawk characters, and Guts is all... wounded and desperate and such. I hated Griffith so much, so I really wanted Guts to have his revenge, and for Casca to be okay.
I never really got that connected to GRRM's characters, and mostly find them all sort of jerkish... so I'm not motivated to overcome my feelings about the blood, gore, and sexual violence, and just get turned off by the whole thing.

Re: Your inconsistencies

[(Anonymous)]

I have never been that interested in Berserk, but I can see that.

I had friends who loved ASOIAF, and I didn't care, but I eventually decided without reading even one chapter that the way GRRM writes would just piss me off. He likes to set up unsympathetic protagonists to suffer and die in some strange pantomime of how he thinks tragedy is supposed to work.

(The funny thing is that I can say that based on how other people have described a series I have never read, and the one short story of Martin's I have read.)

As bloody as Berserk is, I suspect the writer actually expects the readers to care about the characters.

Re: Your inconsistencies

[ketita]

I mean, that's kind of how I personally feel about Martin's writing, and I read the first ASOIAF novel and own one of his comics (received it as a gift), so I'm not going to argue with you on that XD

Berserk does have far more sympathetic protagonists, and really, when there was the big murderfest where a whole lot of characters got killed, they were characters that you actually gave a shit about (at least imo).
And there are a few interesting subversions in the series. Like the fact that Guts starts off as this loner dark swordsman with the haunted past bent on revenge, but later actually admits that he was just being self-indulgent and he really should have spent his time taking care of the person he loves. I honestly wasn't expecting that.