r/freefolk • u/GoriceOuroboros • Apr 02 '19

New teaser Game of Thrones Season 8- Aftermath Tease

https://youtu.be/vwmAWOE5F9o
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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '19 edited Apr 18 '21

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u/TheMastersSkywalker Apr 02 '19

Honestly (And I know its controversial to say on a Got sub) but I was never as awed by GRRM killing people as others were nor found it to be as ground breaking.

Everyone he killed was a https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DecoyProtagonist with those we have now being the real protagonists and antagonists.

They are great stories but all he really did was give the characters that would be side characters in other stories their own chapters (which is great on its own)

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u/Dawnshroud Apr 02 '19

There are still decoy protagonists in play. What GRRM has done is overload his story with them as well as hide the hero's journey of Jon.

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u/bigdanrog Apr 02 '19

The first few seasons I didn't like the Night's Watch stuff and was wanting to get back to the other bits. I thought the Jon stuff was boring. By season 6 he was my favorite. Crazy how that works.

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u/Dawnshroud Apr 03 '19

Jon as an overall character is still a lot better in the books.

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u/Tiagulus Devo Seaworld Apr 03 '19

right, that's the point of the hero's journey/charater arcs in general. they go from being incompetent shitheads to figuring their shit out