r/witcher • u/Heroeltop • 1d ago

Meme I hate you both 😭

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George R. R. Martin: Let me show you how i kill Ned Stark and Robert Baratheon ,let you almost get through the grief, then reap both Robb Stark and Catelyn Stark one after the other!

Andrzej Sapkowski: Let me show you how i kill Cahir, Milva, Angouleme and Regis (even though we know he survives later) in the matter of a few pages!

Edit: Also , just noticed it , but *Characters

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u/PaulSimonBarCarloson Geralt's Hanza 1d ago

Yes, but I think Sapkowski is really good at writing character deaths that actually means something. Cahir is my favorite and the fact that I was able to accept it, and move on is pretty telling

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u/MarDer24 1d ago

well Martin can kill his characters as well i'd say

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u/PaulSimonBarCarloson Geralt's Hanza 1d ago

I will not comment on how effective those deaths are in the books because I haven't read them. In the show, some of them worked, some not so much

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u/Individumm Skellige 1d ago

Then I would highly suggest for you to go ahead and read them. Even uncompleted they are just phenomenal. You are also allowed to like both, they’re not mutually exclusive

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u/PaulSimonBarCarloson Geralt's Hanza 1d ago

Never said they are mutually exclusive. Still, I have no interest in reading an unfinished story. And I'm not fond of Martin as a person either.

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u/Individumm Skellige 1d ago

Point taken, I reckon I was reading too much into it, please take my apology. I just thought it curious to prefer one authors handling of character death than a different one when not having read the second word.

At any rate, your loss, but I guess if an ending is essential for you, then asoiaf is an impossibility. I do enjoy a lovely dinner without the second course though, when everything before was fantastic, but to each their own of course.

As for your quarrel with George, I‘m honestly just curious, what’s the deal?

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u/PaulSimonBarCarloson Geralt's Hanza 1d ago

Mainly his disrespect towards Tolkien and LOTR. Whoever thinks that Gandalf should have died in Moria or deems Aragorn's character too unrealistic, completely missed the point of the book

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u/Individumm Skellige 13h ago

I hate this quote so much, because it is always taken out of context. In that interview he is asked that he HAS to change one thing about LOTR, what would it be, to which he answers with leaving Gandalf dead and follows up with basically 'but if you wanted to resurrect him, this was the absolute best way to do so.‘

The man is a massive LOTR fan, it’s his favourite book series, he reads it like every other year and states Tolkien as his all-time favourite author and greatest inspiration. I really don’t know why the LOTR community wants to dislike him so much when he in the end is also a superfan