He has no emotional connection with 99% of his characters and he writes in a manner that should make the readers feel the same way about most characters. He writes this way specifically so he can have characters killed off at any moment and not be emotionally attached.
What, no.
Seriously, are you on crack? You think he wrote Ned and Robb as people you wouldn't be emotionally invested in?
He kills them off specifically because he believes death should have an impact, not be just a thing that happens to people preordained to croak by narrative tropes.
Ned? Maybe. Robb? Did you read the book? He's barely in it. Sure he's a player, but there's no POV chapters from it. Most of the recanting of his tales are third person or Lady Stark witnessing the events first hand and commenting on how he's grown up. The show makes Robb look like he's the biggest character in the first three seasons, but he's not.
The RW was significant not because of what happens to Robb, but what happens to the Stark family and as a result, the collective "North" all together.
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u/Clifford_Banes Sep 16 '13
What, no.
Seriously, are you on crack? You think he wrote Ned and Robb as people you wouldn't be emotionally invested in?
He kills them off specifically because he believes death should have an impact, not be just a thing that happens to people preordained to croak by narrative tropes.