I'm not downplaying the effect of her height at all, but it's clearly not the only thing that people respond to when judging her. As I said above, Martin's weighted her down with so much physical baggage that for TV!Brienne to work, she's got to be more than tall and plain. Maege Mormont and her daughter (daughters?) go to war and no one judges them as Brienne is judged, so there's got to be more going on with her.
I mean, I'm, shall we say, round, but my personal experiences aside, if the book said Brienne was fat and horse-faced and buck-toothed, etc., then I wouldn't be satisfied if all they did was cast a fat actress. How much farther they need to go is obviously up for debate, and I'm willing to withhold judgement until I see how it plays out. But I'm in the camp that wants to hew closer to the book's depiction, not further from it.
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Date: 2011-07-09 02:26 am (UTC)I mean, I'm, shall we say, round, but my personal experiences aside, if the book said Brienne was fat and horse-faced and buck-toothed, etc., then I wouldn't be satisfied if all they did was cast a fat actress. How much farther they need to go is obviously up for debate, and I'm willing to withhold judgement until I see how it plays out. But I'm in the camp that wants to hew closer to the book's depiction, not further from it.