True. Very, very true. George is amazing.

Daenerys, Arya, Melisandre, Brienne, Cersai, Olenna, Margery, Yggrid, Catelyn... yeah definitely the last person I'd call a sexist.

@@shadowninja958 You wouldn't think of her in the same way, but Sansa is almost a mirror of Catelyn. To include one and not the other would be unfair to both.

Y eaH but der aR e magiC womens doe!

women exist to pleasure men

D&D writing buried this show .

I'm so sad right now 😔

It would have, if Dublin had been nuked right after the end of Season 6. D and D bailed after the fans became unreasonable. I don't agree with all of their changes, but I understand them wanting to use some surprise outstanding acting by the actors for some minor characters - which led them into temptation to make changes to the story. I'm actually anticipating the final product showing up, and hoping it won't take George too long.

@@laurentiu2704 "I never really care much for them" -D&D to fans of Got

@@francisthompson3772 Poor jaime😭

Good luck writing 🙂

@@Josh_R2.17 Awe! Thank you so much. I am trying my best but I am lazy. I suppose that means I am not trying my best.

Also try not to make your fans die waiting

You done any writing chief ?

Hope the writing is going good bro

Donnie Dewitt I included a male rape victim in my book with a female as the rapist because I wanted to give representation to a group given no respect or recognition.

‘I comment on KZfaq videos to sound smart’ starter pack

@@onlyabudi Who hurt you?

@@shadowninja958 a real man doesn't let himself get raped

Especially in Jewish works. Gotta have that pedophilia.

I know right? SJW types are actually the most sexist/racist deep down that's why they have to announce so loudly that they arent

Well maybe she is not very familiar with history. Yeah, there were powerful women back then - a lot of them - but not everyone knows them. In fact, they are very unknown to someone who glances at history. Many times I have encountered people, on and offline, who had no idea who the many women in history I was talking about.

Wich it is stupid and a XIX Century concept that it is not truth.

Ya Joan if the fucking arc would like a word with her.

@@ClaireYunFarronXIII Not only did exceptional women exist, regular women had very important roles in society and it was not infrequent that they held places of power.

She’s asking a question that’s been asked over and over again online since song of fire and ice was adapted. I don’t think his works are sexist either but this is just her asking questions, not accusing him of sexism Edit: also retorting to shitting on appearance is a low blow in my opinion.

@@sonamyangtsho5582 Idk the point of the main comment was nor the following.. she wasn’t accusing him but her job is to expand on her questions and fish out informative answers. Plus that other comments hair joke was just childish too..

There isn't malice in her questions xD she's just stating the criticisms some people have while at the same time AGREEING with him

Pre 2016, I'm going to assume 😓 Rest in Pepperonis 😥

Someone fill me in what do you mean

@@Alex9971000 Before Dan nd Dave butchered the story.... Pre 2016 (season 6)

Hello there

The Kingslayer General Kenobi

Wow dude. Wow.

It did sound like she was trying to trap him in the beginning with the question about powerful women being just fantasy. He side stepped that real fast

@@baddweather6362 I wish he didn't side step it, off the top of my head I can think of quite a few Women in history who were powerful in their own right, and in George's work, he doesn't make them better than men for the sake of gender, they are better because they have the intelligence and the expeirence to do so. Now i'm not saying powerful women aren't rediculed in history, look at Joan of Arc for example. But George has the redicule there too especially with Cersei's character.

I am picking up on an ignorant attitude from her

Yeah I'm not one to default into that track of mind, but her first question really seemed loaded from her presentation. Martin really beautifully explained his stance though and made her drop pursuing that path any further. I think is the perfect way to fight bias. With measured and reasonable response.

lol, yeah he shut her down quiet politely, i think she wanted him to confirm her ideology and not speak as a writer

I don't think she is doing that at all.

Lightning Farron for the whole thing she had a strange semi-aggressive tone that really sounded like she was trying to find problems in his writing

The arrogance of SJW white women knows no bounds.

@@ClaireYunFarronXIII that's cause u r a wemons

How many sucessful books have you written?

@@jacobjorgenson9285 Me? I'm not an author by trade. though George didn't start writing ASOIAF until his 40s and im still in my 20s so who knows maybe I'll do it one of these days I have plenty of time. also i was criticizing the show, not the books.

Eleanor of aquitane too

Boudica comes to mind

@@evelynvongizycki1017 Definitely, good example

I would love to read about all of these women. I'm in high school and unsung people in history have always appealed to me. How can I read about them?

Æthelflæd queen of Mercia

she is definitely a clam licker.

her hair makes me want to punch a baby

@@exwifeschewtoy5516 Hmm, let me think about that.

Amen

Such deep thoughts...

How is the Witcher already shit? It’s a legitimate question I wish to know.

@@sonofthewolfguardianofthef1214 Very little of it was similar to the world that Sapkowski created, the magic, politics, characters, themes, societies, institutions, creatures, armies, kingdoms were nothing like they were in the books or video games, i mean they make magic from electric eels and locate people using human entrails in the show, the nilfgaardians are also retards who wear testicle looking armour and are as dumb as stormtroopers, this is just the tip of the ice my friend there is so much more crap.

Facts

It's one of the reasons Sansa got so much hate as well everybody online kept comparing her to what they would do in her stead .90% of the comments they'd be beheaded in a week that's being generous

@@gazza7693 I've read the books and any that not the short story collection is kinda meh he did all this work to set up these chrachter and clear didn't know what to do for a multiple book narrative arc while it has it moments and good new chrachters I fell like the game writers did alot of the work to make care. I honestly think the TV shows for the opportunity to do a better job with the source material to add more consistent cy and focus .that said while I enjoyed the show it's kinda built on a shitty foundation since Henry cavill doesn't have the range to do geralt so it probably won't

Isabella I of Castile, who rode onto a battlefield while she was pregnant

Joan of the damn ark

Margaret(France I believe) became queen of England and did what the King didnt have the balls to do himself.

Feminists dont give two shits about those women, cause those women actually put work in. These bitches want things for free while in a society where there is no more hard work for women to do, they ask for more and act like theyre entitled, theres no need for their hard work, and yet, now they have the power to act like they do anything. Spoiled brats I think you would call them.

@@introgauge I'll say that when I hear the word feminism I hear weakness idk why. Going out of your way to say your strong tells me your weak. Women are naturally equal to men, no need for feminist rally's.

The journey is more important and better than the destination mostly

This comment is in every grrm video.

rape is all our fantasy

As opposed to who though?

@@reek4062 Hell yeah it is!

He's actually primarily a sci-fi writer outside of ice and fire. And he values realism and authenticity far more than the actual fantasy elements. That's part of why his stories resonate so well because they are rooted so deeply in reality, even when he adds those fantasy elements.

Because most people like torture porn more than sexual assault apparently. Personally that shit with Ramsay/Theon was one of the reasons I stopped watching.

Maybe because Dany was innocent at that point so the negative actions taken upon her were more upsetting to witness whereas Theon kinda made his bed so he had to sleep in it, the torture was brutal but he was far from a saint.

@@koalabrownie I fast forward all those Ramsey scenes the second time rewatching game of thrones

@@koalabrownie you stopped watching? what a pussy.

Well, to be fair I don't think that her desliking of the depiction of women was the point she was trying to make.From what I can gather, she wanted to question George about the depiction of rape and sexual assault in the series.That is something a lot of people have questions about , mainly because of decisions taken by the TV series and not so much about the books.When George responded that sexual assault is historicly accurate , she brought up the question about powerful women to show what she believed was a case where Geogre didn't consider historical accuracy in favour of a better story.She is wrong and historicly misinformed but she isn't angry because George writes powerful female characters. She most likely wanted to adress some conserns people have about the depiction of rape in Game Of Thrones.

avernion that's what i picked up too

She seems very calm

Catherine the Great too.

Yeah, people like to forget that not every woman was a helpless creature pushed around by the men in her lives

Boudica

Well Troy is confirmed to exist, so the Trojan wars are basically confirmed. Helen of Troy going to be hard to prove outside of the story the Greeks passed down about it.

"...and why is Volumnia so manipulative and powerful? Did you make her up, Mr. Shakespeare?"

And Portia broad!? why do you have her running around in mens clothing?!?!

@fo exipni Dany isn't immune to fire in the books. She gets burned and loses her hair like twice, because it got all burned off. Bald Dany was dropped from the show, you can imagine why. She has dragons because she figured out how to hatch them, bring them into existence and has a connection to them through blood. The dragons are attached because she hatched them and she was legit breastfeeding them when the fire died out. She didn't live because she was fire proof, she lived because she rewoke the old magic of dragons. Of course the blood isn't needed because there have been a few non dragonlord blood riders before. If someone else hatched the dragons, they would have dragons, it just happened to be Dany because she was given the gift of 3 eggs, has the old blood (might not be important in the grand scheme of things but dragons are important to Dany because of her families past.) And was in the right place at the right time. Someone else could've took her place very easily. She has a very small resistant to heat in like a bath but isn't fireproof at all. Drogon burnt her from the chaos of the pit when she first rode him. "TARGARYENS ARE NOT IMMUNE TO FIRE! The birth of Dany's dragons was unique, magical, wonderous, a miracle." - A quote from George. And his answer to "Could she do it again?" "Probably not." Dany's relationship with the dragons is very different in the books too. While they care for her somewhat. They're dragons. Drogon breathes fire at her and tries to bite her. So she whips him into submission. The Drogon of the show would never do that. He was pissed when she first rode him. He roared and tried to throw her off. *I'm talking about books because that's what George is 95% of his time, always talking about.

@fo exipni That makes sense. I see George = Books. *Unless he specifically is there to promote the show, but most of the times, he's not. D&D = show. The show was clearly going to make her be immune to fire for no reason at all, other than to look cool really. I mean, they put in that scene where she picks up the eggs and isn't burnt which isn't in books. I think D&D wanted a simple answer to why Dany survived the fire. Where as George feels it enough explanation to say "It was a once miracle that will never be repeated again." I think D&D wanted to edge up Dany being 'other' because of her heritage, because in the show she looks like a normal, regular human woman. Where in the books, she looks other because of silver hair and purple eyes. They lost that edge when they decided on how to physically portray the character with no contacts or cgi etc. so had to give her a new one to make her 'other'. The Targaryens look very different from the other people in ASOIAF where as the show has them looking a lot like everyone else. Sometimes her hair looks like normal blonde hair. Where as the books, it's very silver/white. While George was part of the show in earlier seasons, a lot of decisions were out of his hands, I don't think it was up to him about the style of the Dany character so I don't think it's an appropriate question to ask him rather than D&D. He can't explain why she's fireproof because he never wrote that she was. He doesn't have the answer because he didn't write it. It's more appropriate question for D&D.

@fo exipni Yeah. I also heard that full on silver clashed with her clothes, didn't look pretty on camera, made her look old etc. I'm just sad that she looks like the average inhabitant of ASOIAF. I wish the show got a bigger budget from the start. Perhaps then, they could've done cgi or tried many brands of contacts to see if any could be used. And we wouldn't be stuck with that lame ass Iron Throne. Emilia is a wonderful actress but she looks nothing like Dany the way she is described. Which is okay, she's just not my headcannon and not what I imagine Dany to look like. She needs somewhat, other, alien beauty type feature. Almost like she doesn't look human. That's what the Targaryens look like in my head. Plus, I would've liked the actress to have a very youthful face or be a few years younger than Emilia, or was 18 when filming started. That's what makes Dany so terrifying. She's so young and has all this power. It is a very poweful image that completely changes when an obvious 20 something woman is playing the part.

@fo exipni Yes. She was 20. But she looks her age. She always looked somewhat mid 20s to me. Some people look older than their age, other people look younger. I was assumed to be 15 when I was 26 for example. I just really like the image of such a young girl with a considerate amount of power and is a force to be reckoned with. That idea is terrifying for a lot of people who rather woman stay in the kitchen. And yeah, I know they couldn't do it full book justice, but with a larger budget for season 1 would've made them build something better than what we got. There is a middle somewhere. By the time they got the budget, it would've been stupid to change the appearance of the throne from season 1. I would've atleast doubled it. The throne in books probably has at least 3000 blades in it, where as the show has bearly 400. I would've aimed for 1000/1500ish. I know the songs say the throne had 1000 but all the descriptions and the size of it must mean there are more than 1000. 1000 is quite a nice number to put in songs considering most of the population would be amazed at the idea of a thousand swords.

@fo exipni Yeah. That's why I said someone who looks very youthful or someone who was 18 at the time of filming season 1. Age can be deceptive. It would've added even more contrast to the Cersei and Dany battle too. But according to GOT wiki, Dany is apparently 23 in season 8...Emilia is beautiful but does not look 23. That's news to me that was supposed to 23 in season 8. Wow. I'm surprised. Jon is also 23 in season 8 and doesn't look it either.

William Haines compare anyone to GRRM and they will come of as mentally handicapped. Lol

William Haines and feminist

LMAO

No, the logic is that fantasy takes liberties with the middle ages all the time. Including Martin. And magic is the very least of it. He doesn't have any spunky princesses talking back to arrogant lords. But he has plenty of spunky lower lords and mercenaries and everyone else talking back to nobility. Talk about something that would NEVER happen in the middle ages. Virtually every line that comes out of Bronn or Baelish or Tyrion's mouth is completely unrealistic. His books are not by any half-intelligent standard "historically accurate". Relative to Conan the Barbarian or Snow White, they may be more "gritty". But that does NOT make them accurate. Yet somehow, when it comes to rape, George (and many other male writers, fantasy and otherwise) seem to have to ensure that there is "realism" around rape. REAL RAPE - WE MUST HAVE IT! Of course, it's not even about realism, per se, but CHOOSING TO FOCUS on certain kinds of things and not on others. Neither George nor B&B had to focus on rape - but they WANTED to. They CHOSE to. And the reasons they chose to are not even very mysterious. It's because those depictions help SELL THEIR WORK. Because people are titillated by it. People (mostly men, and even some few women) LIKE seeing rape on screen. It gets them off. It makes them watch.

@@luckwhisker took over a year for a schizo to show up and rebut an argument I didn’t make. Good luck with the rest of your life.

When you point out that you put this explicit violence for realism reasons, yeah, it really doesn't make sense.

Yeah it came off as weird to me as well. Since there is magic in the world, then obviously you dont need violence or rape.

Oh no, no. A writer must [be able to] justify his/her writing. Yeah it is fiction, but that does not suddenly remove any sort of need for justification. George R. R. Martin is a great writer, I feel. He still needs to answer those questioning his work, which he says is heavy influenced by medieval times. His _A Song of Ice and Fire_ books will be compared to medieval history a lot. The opening questions are poorly researched, especially with regards to power women in history. As a fan of history, I can count on all my family's fingers the powerful women who existed in medieval times. George R. R. Martin has realistic women, especially characters like Asha Greyjoy, Elisa Farmen, Cersei Lannister, Daenerys Targaryen, and many more. I highly doubt you would use this "why would you have to justify your fiction" excuse on fiction you don't like. Stop, that is a poor excuse. But I sort of get what you mean by why George R. R. Martin really does not need to explain this stuff so extensively.

@@ClaireYunFarronXIII Why is Daenerys in your list? As soon as her first dragon dream she stops being a realisitc women in medieval times (a far too young girl married off to powerful patriarch) and becomes a fantasy character that is led by magic, dragons and destiny. This doesn't necessarily make her character worse but she really isn't realistic anymore.

@@parsus7797 lots of character had prophetic dreams or visions in asoiaf, that doesn't instantly make them completely unrealistic. Though i do get your sentiment.

@@RedbadofFrisia But Dany seems to be magically affected by the dreams - healing wounds, can ride all day, has comfortable sex with Khal Drogo and of course later things like temporary fire immunity, birth of dragons (even thought the eggs were supposed to be dead) and prophetic dreams. I am not saying that the character is unrealistic in her actions and thoughts but doesn't go through realistic but fantastic struggles. For example: Khal Drogo dies and his khalasar and specifically most of his blood riders reject Dany as their leader because she is a women (and is responsible for Drogo's death) and split the khalasar leaving Dany with a couple blood riders that are only there because they want to follow him in death after his funeral. We have a realistic struggle (related to her sex at least) - Dany is rejected because she is a women and is sure to die if the remaining Khalasar and the blood riders vanish. Here comes the fantastical part of the character - she decides to burn herself with Drogo and the eggs - survives, dragons are born and the blood riders seeing the miracle and the dragons immiediatly plegde alliegance to her. She has overcome her struggle through the fantastic part of her character. Things like that happen multiple times throughout her story arc (Dragons!) . That's why I objected to her being in that list of realistic women of asoiaf or Got, she isn't realistic but fantastic. That doesn't mean her character is badly written or boring ect..

@@parsus7797 ah right, well if you put it like that. Thamks for explaining!

Not every question asked by a reporter is believed by them or even necessarily intended to push the narrative behind the question. Reporters ask questions to give the other person an opportunity to answer it on the record. Reporters asking these questions, which are usually derived from professional critics vying for attention by bashing a big name, gives Martin an opportunity to explain or refute the premise.

@@r2b2ct1 Holy shit someone in the comment sections actually understands what an interview is. Bravo

@@koalabrownie I agree. This comment section is out of hand I feel like she was fine. Not the best interview but it got some great insight from him.

No, she was asking questions about criticisms and questions others were making, and when he thought she was talking about one thing she directed him towards what she meant, and he answered it as best as he could(I think successfully by mention of both the exceptions and the class structure) and they moved on.

Browne of Tarth? BROWNE?

@@jakehopkins6989 Brian

@@steelbear2063 Brine*

Me too, mainly cause he's very much like me.

youll get somewhere if you stop saying bruh.

You’re honestly going to cut Hardhome and Stannis at the wall like that?

I think he meant the book

297 years after Aegon's conquest. You're welcome.

I say this every upload, they just refuse

@@josephmartinage9622 😂

I don’t hate got! The journey is better, more affective and more important than the destination

@fo exipni Forgave Jaime for what exactly? Also what makes you think I consider Tyrion a good person? Yes, sure, Sansa is still developing, but Catelyn, Cersei and Littlefinger being her mentors, she doesn't reallg have much of a chance, not even with what little is in her of Ned (whom she betrayed). Catelyn and Sansa drew Ned into the black cells with their impulsive and selfish and power hungry and delusional behaviour. Joffrey just pulled the metaphorical trigger

fo exipni Except sneaking out for the first time in life and spilling his plans about fleeing KL to Cersei. She wanted to be the queen more than she loved and trusted and respected him

@fo exipni If the show is your reference that really has nothing to do with my comment, this was about actual writing work George. I was sticking to what happened with Sansa really in the books, but show Sansa is even worse, esoecially after the show has ended we know she is iredeemable. Just the betrayal of oath given in front of a weirwood and then the arrogance to use the weirwood tree as a symbol on her dress is a terrible act on its own

fo exipni wow is that how you treat your promises too? her revealing that secret had a good outcome? what was she trying to achieve with it exactly that is so good? at that point Dany did nothing to give reason to anyone to not want her as their queen, she was a literal war hero

fo exipni so separatism is more important than survival of the humanity? Jon was not just her brother he was also her king. And hence Daenerys became her queen. What Sansa did was treason against her king and her family. But the writing is now stupid so characters like Sansa do not suffers any consequences (as she should when she sent people in certain death and not tell them abou t the knights of the Vale so that she could pretend to be a hero) Sansa's main motivation is that she wants to be queen, at least we agree on that

I think the book is ready now. He just constantly rewrites some chapters.

@@bitterfox518 That's probably so. Who knows? I heard him say in an interview that some fans correctly guess how the story will go.

Bitter fox if he’s constantly rewriting chapters then how can the book be done?

Well.. we're currently surrounded by slogans like "believe women", "protect women", "equality for women", "women are not objects", "girls just want to live their lives without fear” etc. etc. etc. Regardless of what some people might try and claim, I think feminism is pretty obviously an "-ism" founded on the belief that women have it worse, have always been second class citizens, deserve protection and are systemically oppressed (it's right there in the name). I am NOT arguing for/against _anything_ here, just saying that most of American audiences are very accustomed to recognising misogyny, but less likely to recognise misandry and non-gender specific issues. Also, there's probably a component of Americans having no problem with violence in media, but loose their shit when it's a sex thing (violent or not).

George has got fashion. He doesn't change his outfit but changes his straps, vests, and small details. A man who cares about presence.

That the time of stuff they so called anti sjw folk messed not that there werent any stronge just that women faced different and systematically 2nd class roles in term of majority or standrad

it was their right