morenoingrato said:
Thirded. |
There has been good characters on both sides, but the books and specially the show have always been relatively Manichean - yes, morally ambiguous next to the stuff of fantasy and fiction teenagers and young adults enjoy, but not really to standard literature. Plenty of villains like the Mountain, Ramsay, the rulers of the eastern cities etc. are just as evil and unsympathetic as some Voldemort or Sauron. The two main characters are the honor bound Jon Snow and the unexplainably progressive liberal Daenerys. Most of those we could call anti-heroes and anti-villains have always been secondary characters and are already dead, such as Stannis or the High Sparrow. No reader or viewer was ever meant to sympathize or side with Balon, Joffrey, the masters of Astapor, and so on.
The only relevant fantasy writer I've read which properly does morally ambigous conflicts with compelling anti-heroes and anti-villains on the foreground of the story is Guy Gavriel Kay.
