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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 8465616" data-attributes="member: 59082">It has been too long since I read one of his books (about 25 years) to agree or disagree on his characters, but I do remember being immersed and liking his characterization, for the most part. One of his well-known weaknesses was the saminess of his females, all sort of Polgara variants (and the infamous tugging of braids), but that is hardly unusual for male writers.But I do think that GoT--both the books and show--had unusually good characters, and Martin had a rather potent cleverness with dialogue. It sets a pretty high bar, one I don't think WoT will meet, but nor does it need to, to be entertaining and successful.Based upon just one episode, though, I'm reasonably confident that they won't make the mistake of trying to copy GoT, which also gives me hope for the Middle-earth series. One common writing advice I see is that as a writer, don't worry about current trends, or what is or is not popular. Write what you love, and do it as well as you can. I think this is true for TV series, not only because when you try to copy something, you'll almost always fall short and even look silly doing so, but also because fads are always changing.Genres also don't tend to narrow, but expand. Meaning, any trend or popular sub-genre doesn't as much set the course of the genre, as it does expand it to include that avenue as a viable sub-genre. Twilight didn't kill horror or make it only about sexy vampires (at least not for more than a few years), and GoT didn't make fantasy focused only on grim-and-grittiness.</blockquote>

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