Who do you think is the most boring character, in the books?

[Karnil Vark Khaitan]

Personally I really dislike Bran the son of ned stark

Reason why (contain small spoilers from book one)

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Bran the small crippled boy, who keeps whining, and every time I get to a chapter with him its like "on no not him again".

but in true it dont stop me from reading the books, its just a bump in the road
So who do u dislike?

[Pinkie Pie]

R'holler and his preists.
Evyething they do is just annoying from seeing the future to controling flames to bringing back the dead.

[Dirty Chai]

R'holler and his preists.
Evyething they do is just annoying from seeing the future to controling flames to bringing back the dead.

R'hllor is not a character himself though. I think he means POV characters anyway.

I'd have to say I don't actually have any particular character I find boring, at least for the moment.
I use to think all the female character chapters were boring, but I'm pretty sure that was me being slightly sexist and right under a certain threshold in maturity...
Currently, I find all chapters to be quite engaging.

[Pinkie Pie]

Then i would have to go with Bran then Arya. They seem to have no bearing on the plotline as a whole and neither have done anything particularly interesting.

[Dirty Chai]

Then i would have to go with Robert then Arya. They seem to have no bearing on the plotline as a whole and neither have done anything particularly interesting.

Arya - good point there.....

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...I think she will come back from Essos in Winds of Winter, and when she does, she'll be more important to the plot, now that she'll be able to hold her own..

Robert - you mean Robb? How so?

[Timur Amir]

I like Brienne as a character, but her chapters in AFFC just were annoying...well, actually, at the end they got exciting again, but for the most part, not so much.

There also could be a significantly smaller number of random Dornish and Ironborn POVS. I like the characters, just not the excessive POV clustering (and Hotah was just not necessary)

[Dirty Chai]

....There also could be a significantly smaller number of random Dornish and Ironborn POVS. I like the characters, just not the excessive POV clustering (and Hotah was just not necessary)

Yeah, I agree. I think it would've been fine if he only had, say, one Ironborn POV at a time, and kept them all the way through the book consistently like the other characters. Otherwise, if you're just gonna shove and cluster a bunch of minor character into random POV's, forget it.

[Pinkie Pie]

Arya - good point there.....

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...I think she will come back from Essos in Winds of Winter, and when she does, she'll be more important to the plot, now that she'll be able to hold her own..

Robert - you mean Robb? How so?

My bad I meant Bran

[Dirty Chai]

My bad I meant Bran

Yeah, it is kind of annoying. His chapters themselves aren't devoid of interesting descriptions etc., it's that he just sits around.

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And then later he just turns into a shapeshifter and goes north beyond the wall. Really no plot significance there.

When he fell from that window, I originally thought he'd become like Tyrion, "a sword of the mind", and become some smart scholar who sort of sits by and chronicles all the events.
I really wish that was where Martin took his character.

[Pinkie Pie]

THose two were more interesting when there were not whole chapters defoted to them. They work much better as minor characters in another persons story.

[Timur Amir]

I don't mind the deviation from the plot; the main plot is so fractured and vague, anyways, it doesn't really matter, and I'd take some good character development over a plot of cardboard any day. I'm more annoyed by the meandering and lack of interesting events. "And so we're walking, and walking, and walking, and walking, oh, lets stop by this lord, yay pointless adventure, and we're walking, and we're walking...."

[Vigamadr]

I got sick of Brienne eventually in AFFC in the beginning. But as the story went on, I began to get more interested.

And then there is Arya. I have a love/hate with her. I like her storyline so far, but all its really done so far is explain somethings about Clegane. (Im pretty sure hes got some sort of brain tumor or cancer or something.)

[Pinkie Pie]

Clegane, now he was fun. If Clegan and Arya had worked together it might have made her intersting. I can see wedding bells in the future for those two Well more a giant tree than bells but you get the meaning.

[Enshou]

That, I find a pretty disturbing thought

[Dirty Chai]

Clegane, now he was fun. If Clegan and Arya had worked together it might have made her intersting. I can see wedding bells in the future for those two Well more a giant tree than bells but you get the meaning.

Don't say things.

[Noobio]

i used to seriously dislike samwell's povs but i got really annoyed that his oldtown-quest, story didn't advance in ADWD, as also on the other hand while reading ADWD i just couldn't help jumping pages of certain tyrion's chapters, when during the previous bookd they were certainly my favourites...

all in all, martin's story seems to be bigger even than his characters and i guess there's no "boring character" just boring chapters/story-points...

the coolest character can get horribly boring if his plot isn't advancing and vice versa...unfortunately that's what happened to most of tyrion's and dany's chapters in ADWD (that even more unfortunately, occupied half the book)

they were seriously boring, cause they were only going in circles...tyrion around dany and dany around herself

[Meshakhad]

My least favorite characters change from book to book. Catelyn probably stands out consistently. I really wish we had had another POV in the Stark camp - maybe Greatjon Umber?

I also didn't like Brienne's storyline in AFFC - it had no relevance to the main plot. If she had actually FOUND Sansa or Arya, I would have liked that - come to think of it, Brienne and Arya would be an interesting meetup. Brienne isn't that different from what Arya could have become if she had remained in the North and a giant civil war hadn't broken out.

For that matter, Arya's storyline has also failed to draw my interest. I like Arya as a character, but I'm upset that she has essentially been separate from the main storyline since the beginning of ACOK. Arya had better either return to Westeros or end up in Slaver's Bay next book - and, I mean, early in it rather than at the end.

Sansa bored me in the first three books, but now she's become far more interesting. Same with Bran.

I also generally don't like it when a character is introduced in their own POV chapter. I didn't get who Davos or Jon Connington were at first, and I still don't care about Jon himself. Far more interesting would have been an Aegon POV.

I also think (and hope) that a lot of the seemingly unnecessary POVs, particularly those that only showed up in AFFC/ADWD, are actually setups for major roles in later books. Victarion, Asha, and Ser Barristan Selmy are good examples - Victarion's subplot certainly ties into the main story, Asha ended up as our POV inside Stannis' army, and Ser Barristan is now the de facto ruler of Meereen.

[Noobio]

i guess the whole "problem" started with mr. Martin's decision to split the last 2 books into characters rather than in a chronological order...

that caused many problems and ended up in 2 uneven books..really great chapters and subplots got kinna lost inside numerous other dragging/self-repeating ones...no closure for most of them (hell, especially the brienne-jaime thing got from one cliffhanger-brienne's trial to another-jaime's dissappearing) and endless pages of going nowhere with the rest..(i would have preffered if tyrion died for example...better that, than having him going everywhere without actually doing anything or getting anywhere...)

fortunately, at least as stated till now, this was the last mix-up and the next 2 books are gonna be more "linear and converging" and tie up most of the loose ends...

[RTW warrior]

Catelyn certainly has to be the most boring character, a huffy, over-protective mother who treats Jon horribly for being born a .

[Toho]

brienne, oh god in feast of crows i skipped all her chapters, i could care less about her...

Catelyn certainly has to be the most boring character, a huffy, over-protective mother who treats Jon horribly for being born a .

I disagree, she is/was a great POV character always in the middle of something important. so as a character she might have been kind of bad but she was a great POV to have.