OMG I hate Cersei Lannister! I want deeply horrible, vile, horrible, dire, awful, painful, excruciating, horrible things to happen to her!
Hee. I'm guessing you read the bits I was sort of alluding to in my journal now? The reason, I ended up skimming ahead, and even went and scanned parts of Feast for Crows - because I got worried about Tyrion and really, really wanted to strangle Cersei. I think I spent the last 100 pages of that book wishing Cersei would get it.
She does by the way - at the end of Feast, from a surprising source and in a satisfying way. (I know because I scanned ahead.) I'll give Martin this - he does plot a fairly karmic universe, but much like daytime soap operas it takes forever for the character to pay for their crimes and when they do, you often forget why you wanted them to in the first place. (Although I don't think that was ever true about Cersei - she's a bit too mwwaaahhaahaa evil - which is a big weakness in the books that they appear to be trying to remedy in the television series. They've already added two things to make her more likable and sympathetic. I think Martin's original intent was to make Cersei the female equivalent of Tywin Lannister, cold, calculating, all about his own legacy and power. Her father's daughter literally. Which isn't sexist at all. It's actually interesting. Except...for the fact that Jamie and Tyrion are nicer and have redeemptive arcs and Cersei is painted fairly black and white. I remember it grating on me.)
Regarding the history?
They don't know Valley Forge, the Gettysburg Address or Lewis and Clarke? Well, that does explain a lot...but.. okay, granted, my father is a frustrated historian so I was going to get that information regardless, but still- I remember being inundated with early American history leading up to the Civil War from the first grade to the fifth grade, to the point that I could recite it by memory. How much of it was truly accurate is another thing entirely. Remember my father being annoyed that my high school history teachers' had degrees in Physical Education, not *cough*history*cough* and one was a libertarian (we were living in Kansas - 85% of Kansas considers itself to be libertarian and they define it the same way Sarah Palin does.) Too much emphasis on math and science, not enough on the humanities...except our math and science departments suck too. Should rephrase that - too much emphasis on "computer science".
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Date: 2011-06-10 04:40 pm (UTC)Hee. I'm guessing you read the bits I was sort of alluding to in my journal now? The reason, I ended up skimming ahead, and even went and scanned parts of Feast for Crows - because I got worried about Tyrion and really, really wanted to strangle Cersei. I think I spent the last 100 pages of that book wishing Cersei would get it.
She does by the way - at the end of Feast, from a surprising source and in a satisfying way. (I know because I scanned ahead.) I'll give Martin this - he does plot a fairly karmic universe, but much like daytime soap operas it takes forever for the character to pay for their crimes and when they do, you often forget why you wanted them to in the first place. (Although I don't think that was ever true about Cersei - she's a bit too mwwaaahhaahaa evil - which is a big weakness in the books that they appear to be trying to remedy in the television series. They've already added two things to make her more likable and sympathetic. I think Martin's original intent was to make Cersei the female equivalent of Tywin Lannister, cold, calculating, all about his own legacy and power. Her father's daughter literally. Which isn't sexist at all. It's actually interesting. Except...for the fact that Jamie and Tyrion are nicer and have redeemptive arcs and Cersei is painted fairly black and white. I remember it grating on me.)
Regarding the history?
They don't know Valley Forge, the Gettysburg Address or Lewis and Clarke? Well, that does explain a lot...but..
okay, granted, my father is a frustrated historian so I was going to get that information regardless, but still- I remember being inundated with early American history leading up to the Civil War from the first grade to the fifth grade, to the point that I could recite it by memory. How much of it was truly accurate is another thing entirely. Remember my father being annoyed that my high school history teachers' had degrees in Physical Education, not *cough*history*cough* and one was a libertarian (we were living in Kansas - 85% of Kansas considers itself to be libertarian and they define it the same way Sarah Palin does.) Too much emphasis on math and science, not enough on the humanities...except our math and science departments suck too. Should rephrase that - too much emphasis on "computer science".