Episode 804 | George R.R. Martin 

She needs to study history a bit more. Women have ruled empires.

But her assumptions are wrong. Just look at Joan of Arc, Cleopatra, Elizabeth I, Aggripina the younger(Neros mom) who are just a few women who changed the world.

She's probably a feminazi

Agree with you completely. Also just to add that often the husband would be blamed and punished for their wife's crimes. And that a woman could hide behind being "a woman" in order to twist events, or to plot. Like Elizabeth Woodville and Margaret Beaufort did. She might've been a "feminazi", and only wanted to prove some kind of point about women being constantly raped and trodden upon and overlooked for thousands and thousands of years. History is a little more complex than that. Wish people would realise that more in all honesty.

Victoria Cariad No kidding. History IS fact, but we have to remember a lot of what happened in the past was driven by human emotions, experiences, beliefs, etc. which were just as complex back then as they are today. I think history is really a reflection of today, like the old saying, "to understand your future, first understand your past." It's a foible of the human mind to try to bring a dichotomy to things that CANNOT be a dichotomy. What I mean by that is most people tend to think of things as black and white, what I've come to call immature thinking. Life isn't a dichotomy, history isn't a dichotomy and certainly cannot be black and white. When I read about Joan of Arc, Cleopatra, etc. I think of them as people, not as a figure. Yes, Joan of Arc was a strong willed woman who wanted to save her kin, but she also was batshit insane thinking angels spoke to her that she would be doing God's work. Yes she obviously was an amazing woman, but she was human. She had faults, she had those feelings, and it drove her to do what she thought was right. This is why I don't put a dichotomy on things, there is ALWAYS much more to a story than simple black and white thinking.

And fame is a sword without a hilt... ^^

mori1bund Ha! YES

mori1bund That is something I can imagine reading in an ASOIAF book. Nice saying ^^

Peter K It is from the books. the actual quote is "magic is a sword without a hilt"

r000n1 Exactly! :-)

What really annoys me is when people call rectangular storytime page-turners books.

It really doesn't matter. Plus he referred to it as such anyways.

do you still believe that if you are still alive?

Easy mistake to make, usually by fans of the tv show.

Caesara(Empress) Aggripina the younger of Rome is probably the inspiration for Cersei. A manipulator who was rumored to have had incestual relations with her brother Caesar Caligula, has her husband(her Uncle Caesar Cladius) killed so her unstable son(Nero) able to become Caesar. He killed her shortly afterwards. She was considered one of the most powerful women in Roman history.

When it's done it's done.

are you saying that ManBearPig isn't real?

He is too real! I'm super cereal!

Why are you thankful of that? Magic is the most underrated part of reality. I wish I lived in a time where it still was part of our lives.

The way that life itself works (evolution, technology, genes and memes etc) is far more interesting than any magic. It's all so very complex, yet able to be explained in great detail. Magic can't be the most underrated part of reality, because it is not and never will be a part of reality. The definition of magic is "The art of producing illusions as entertainment". Illusions are things that appear to be real, but aren't. They are not part of reality. If we had "real" magic today, we wouldn't call it magic, it would simply be normal energy that occurs in reality. Shooting fire from your hand would just be called "Producing fire" and how it is achieved would be written in great details in textbooks throughout the world.

That's a very modern view. Things that couldn't be explained have been part of reality for centuries up until now. They mostly aren't anymore, you're right. But your dismissal of it kind of proves my point that it is underrated. I'm a bit sad about the whole development, even though I understand the necessity and still want the world to keep going forward.

True but personally I didn't finish the movies so yeah .

Jaylen Johnson they kind of bored me to be honest. So much world building and lore, I couldn't care less if i am not invested in the characters.

Lol yeah man I get what you mean.

casemonsterxxx Yeah, you definitely hit the nail on the head there. I can't presume to know what goes on in GRRM's head, but I'd wager he's probably a bit pissed by having to make a comparison to Tolkien in every single interview he's in. The two are far too different, IMO. Personally, I think comparing his works to Robert Jordan's or Steven Erickson's is much more fitting, but that does indeed narrow down the number of people who'll know WTF he's on about :P

oh wow you are most definitely true there my friend.

Maybe you should get a life and in the process let others have theirs.

Designandrew: Maybe GRRM is not your bitch.

He's being doing this even before his career took off and has no plans of stopping it anytime soon or likely never.

"Maybe George should stop doing fuckign appearances and interviews and comic conventions etc etc AND JUST WRITE!" --Maybe you should be patient and wait like the rest of us for the books to be finished. When they're done, they're done. That's the bottom line. I, for one, don't want him to try and rush these books. They are the most riveting, engaging, amazing books I've ever read, and hope he takes his time to make sure they are in line with how he originally envisioned them. So STFU and wait.

+TheCrimsonIdol987 Amen