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    Icon5 What Character do you think should get more Likes/Dislikes.

    Well think about it For one theres many characters in these books some a few lines some just mention once than killed and than theres some which are basically forgottend. Who would you like to see get more attention in maybe future books or have their own POV. I for one would like a Vale mini POV From the earlier books and maybe A Dornish noble/commoner, one so we could see the world during these times.

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    I would not like any more POVs as this would slow the book pace even more, and hopes that we'll see the end of them, but if there would be... I would love some Karstark soldier left in the riverlands, and Other POW.

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    Well true but what if other authors after all Martin seems hes going to leave the series and who knows maybe some other famous authors may make sort of their own characters based in the Asoiaf world. I would personally see more Kingsguard epicness. and maybe more battles
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wowwars View Post
    Well true but what if other authors after all Martin seems hes going to leave the series and who knows maybe some other famous authors may make sort of their own characters based in the Asoiaf world. I would personally see more Kingsguard epicness. and maybe more battles
    If another author were to come in and expand on the characters and world I think it would be really interesting to read about previous eras. Obviously Roberts Rebellion and the conquest by Aegon after he landed on Westeros. But also The Long Night and maybe the invasion of the Andals and subsequent wars with the First Men.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hermod View Post
    If another author were to come in and expand on the characters and world I think it would be really interesting to read about previous eras. Obviously Roberts Rebellion and the conquest by Aegon after he landed on Westeros. But also The Long Night and maybe the invasion of the Andals and subsequent wars with the First Men.
    True I would love to see a View of Aegon's Conquest, and maybe Andals and First men. if books about these times were to be made it'll seem to be the equavilant of the First Age and maybe Aegons Conquest could be a Second age sort of thing.
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    If there was one PoV I really want it would be Tywin Lannister.
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    I would have loved to have a Fat-Walda Bolton POV, it would be hilarious in a horrifying kind of way


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    Varus, obviously he knows a lot more then we are shown. Would be interesting to see how Varus plots behind the scenes.
    Now we only see him as an antagonist in a POV chapter, but think of all the dirty little things we would find out if we follow him
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    Having Varys as a PoV character would ruin him in my opinion. He is far better as an unknown character.
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    I can agree with you, but seeing recent events in ADWD, I think he'll come back to the front and perhaps become one of the leading characters.
    Another way is for him to be a POV, but does nothing specifically, I mean just walking from the market to the red keep, something like that.
    But in the meanwhile discussing or reflecting previous actions and speculating about the future. In this way we cannot know his true intentions but we will get more information on previous events.

    I generally like to know more about events that happened before, I mean, they all talked about the Battle of the Bells. But never in detail. When they finally gave us more information about it I was like, hey that's pretty cool. A few extra lines can give so much more dimensions to a character. And I think Varus as a POV is able to tell us more, since he knows all
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    Well, seeing as Cersei was ruined when she got her POV, no. Definitely not Varys nor Littlefinger(except the POV when he dies while tortured, i would like that). Perhaps Arya could join Varys' little birds and then we got old, good POV close to Varys.

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    Cersei was ruined when she got her PoV? Her chapters were great, imo.

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    Well, at least to me-she was that cold, calculating queen who sucessfully traded blows with Tyrion and took down Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon, while in book 4, she was suddenly far too stupid, lunatic and paranoid and was stumbling from one stupidity to another. Her character was ruined, i mean, even on the first read i could do nothing when i read that she rearmed the Faith but . The chapters itself were not that bad, especially compared to Brienne's.

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    She was crazy the entire time, it just got worse as the books went on and she got more paranoid.

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    Well in books 1-3 she was decent player... not littlefinger/varys rank of course but she could put up a fight with Tyrion... i guess her brother killing her father and firstborn son and her life love leaving her got her crazy... still, she simply became too stupid.

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    Personally, I loved the Cersei chapters. She was never the calm, calculating lioness, she just thinks she is and likes to portray herself that way. Its not that she suddenly got dumb in AFFC, its that everyone who limited her power in some way- Tywin, Tyrion, Robert, even Joffrey- was gone. She had always been paranoid, and with the death of Tywin and Tyrion and the changes happening to Jaime its been pushed to the extreme.

    She may have seemed like a better player before we got in her head, but there was very little evidence for that being true. Jon Arryn almost revealed the truth about her children, it was only Littlefinger and Lysa that saved her there. She barely "put up a fight" with Tyrion, she even got the wrong whore, and he didn't lose power until Tywin showed up. And as for Ned- aside from the fact that Ned told her all the information he had and Sansa then told her the rest of his plan, outsmarting Ned Stark when it comes to political intrigue and scheming is about as hard as beating Bran in a foot race.
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    Well, not that she was ever very good player-though winning Ned was not as easy as it sounds beacuse he had his king's trust(and she didn't), he had Littlefinger who was supporting him almost to the end, was King's Hand and had all information that Jon Arryn and Stannis managed to gather. She didn't had much except powerful family(Ned had that too), few friends at the court and being a queen. When she got real power in hand she went nuts. But it looks like pure idiocy to rearm the Faith-and it had nothing to do with her fear of Tyrion/Tyrells. She was always bad mother(and that too had bitten her later, in more ways). I simply cannot imagine old Cersei doing all that crap. I think even Ned would win over AFFC Cersei.

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    The point is POV or not cersei would've come over in the same way.
    Her position only went from decent: with Jaime and her influence as her strength to extremely bad: losing family members, the tyrrels becoming stronger.
    Even if we would have seen her from a third person perspective, we would see that she is breaking down, even without knowing her thoughts.
    The characters are not written in stone, they have to react to situations around them and make good or bad choices which result in more situations and so on.
    Cersei is just making bad choice after bad choice (same as Catlyn was doing imho) and she is being played by Varus and Littlefinger (and who knows by the Faith and Tyrrels )and now she suffers the consequences on her character and mind.
    Saying that the character is ruined is because she is ruining herself by her actions, and this is not the cause of POV chapters
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    I guess that's just my disappointment that she was so stupid/crazy. It's the writer's choice how stupid he'll make her. It still looks a bit unrealistic how fast she destroyed herself(even littlefinger was surprised) but that's just my opinion. There is actually no decent woman character who suceeds in something in whole books, (except Dany, and she has plot armor) but that's quite realistic comsidering medieval society.

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