I am not envisaging Sansa or Jon taking over until late TWOW. The core characters are all still around, and still in position to play a prominent role going forward. He will fight to the bitter end, and then some."Īnd that isn't even counting Daenerys, who is likely to make her move (finally) in the next book. As Tywin said "This is Stannis we're talking about. Stannis, despite being in the frozen North, isn't likely to give up either. Cersei is still a major player, and Jaime probably is as well. Jon, despite being stabbed, isn't leaving the story either. The Stark children are in transition and training. You don’t have the Stark, Baratheon, Lannister and Ironborn focus that was personified and seeded wonderfully by GRRM in the Kings Arrival at Winterfell. The Dornish who are outside the circle entirely. Now, we have Euron who Theon barely knew. All the contenders are very closely linked. Which I consider to be the group that travelled to Winterfell and their immediate relatives.
One of the problems is that this new war is too removed from the original core cast. I am not entirely sold that Aegon, Arriane, Cersei, Margery, Littlefinger and Euron will be as compelling a conflict as the War of the Five Kings. But why set up a new war when you already have an existing one that was working fine? I suspect a lot of the travelogues are really laying the groundwork for this. In resolving this war GRRM basically has to do another Game of Thrones book to set up the next war. But even then I don’t feel Euron is a good replacement for Tywin. Dorne is earned I feel because it is hinted they are up to no good. Euron gets a few lines of text and suddenly it’s “a thousand ships and my dragon horn”.
If the whole story had ended with ASOS then fine but it didn’t.Īlso, if you kill that many big characters and intend to continue the story then you have to bring in New Blood which can be a little awkward.
We MIGHT still get Dany vs Stannis but Iam doubtful. GRRM chose to sever these potential plot threads. For one a lot of these characters were very interesting and had great potential. By the end of Swords, Stannis is the only one left standing and he’s so far from the capital that he’s almost out of the story at this point. That being said, I think GRRM killing off Rob Stark, ending the Baratheon threat entirely at Blackwater, using the Tyrell’s as a dues ex machina to bring the war to a conclusion was questionable. It’s easily the most compelling aspect of the series for me in Westeros.
All the different factions, the family disputes between Tyrion and Tywin, Renly and Stannis. Really, if Stannis wasn’t keeping the throne warm for Dany I’d like him a lot more. But delightfully there was more than just Danys story. So I got introduced to the show and then the books entirely on the recommendation that “oh it has this girl who’s basically the Dragonborn”.
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