We live in a Golden Age of Fantasy!

Martin is, ultimately, a bit of a hack in my eyes.

I may be putting myself on a cross here, but who cares. Here's how I see it.

Everyone is talking about how the recent series of the show aren't as good and you can fix them by doing this and that and what have you.

All of them ignore the core problem.

Martin is not an overly talented creative mind, he's just good at drama, and the show is running out of drama to hide the preceding statement behind.

For all the "What does X really Y?" fan theories there are out there (Is Tyrion a secret Targaryen? Is Roose a secret White Walker? Are White Walkers secretly the good guys?) we've all known the truth from the very beginning.

Game of Thrones has always been about Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen destroying the Army of Darkness with magical swords and dragons. It's why people can cry out about how "Amazing" it is that GRRM kills """Main Characters""". No. He doesn't. He kills decoy protagonists. The core actors in his monomyth are well protected by prophecy and magic, and we all know the books are going to echo the show in that front. We all know that the Mummer's Dragon is really just the Mummer's Dragon and he will likely be destroyed by the Core Actors. It's why they cut him out of the show. It's why it's going to take Martin two or three books to get around to doing it himself.

Because he can stuff his work up with as much War of The Roses filler as he wants. In the end, all he really has to it is this finale season we are moving into. Prophecy People do the Thing with Magic and Enchanted Swords.

And people act like he is some bloody genius, and he snickers about Tolkien proclaiming that Aragorn ruled "Wisely and Well" as if he isn't trying to run out his own lifespan with so much filler he could choke a Quiddich Team (All that was very important you see, because Harry's first snitch..... This is why we needed several chapters dedicated to Quiddich in every book) so that he won't need to write those fateful words that will make a hypocrite of him.

And Prophecy Guy/Gal ruled wisely and well.

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