As characters go on the show, if you had to pick one to represent your people, Yara might not be a bad choice. Sure, she's a little rough and crude, but she seems dedicated to her family. She did try to rescue Theon when he was in Ramsey's clutches, after all. And she gave him some sisterly tough-love talk in her most recent appearance. Not sure yet how to characterize her aspirations to rule the Iron Islands. Even if they turn out to come from being power-mad or something like that, that makes her no worse than most of the characters on the show, or at least the characters that are rulers or aspiring to be rulers.Lindir wrote:For me, I think not having an identifiable character is killing it for me. Theres a lot of talk about how GOT is pretty progressive in terms of representing different minorities - Yara was shown to be gay - but that doesn't work for someone like me. I don't have a problem with nudity, seeing men or women naked doesn't really bother me, I understand some don't like this however which is fair enough. Anyway, back to the point I was gonna make. Having Loras Tyrell being an openly (somewhat) homosexual character on the show was great in season 2, I could identify with him somewhat and it was nice to feel represented. But then in season 3 he became almost a soap opera character. Sleeping around, discussing flowers and banquets (typical gay guy right ) but at the same time, he moved away from being likeable, at least in my eyes.
Same with Yara. She might be commended for being a strong woman, but she is pretty awful too. I just think they pick interesting characters to represent homosexuality. Not that they minority characters should be completely good. It's a complicated subject and I'm not sure I'm putting it as best as I can. But now going back to my original point, not having a likeable heroic lead character - female, male, straight, gay or whatever is starting to ruin it for me. Everyone is pretty disgusting in some way - I love Littlefinger but he's a villain type character, and those appeal to me when playing alongside strong heroic characters. I don't know, its just kinda becoming meh now, story wise and character wise. I can't really route for anyone, except Littlefinger. Jon is boring, Dany is annoying, Sansa feels like an imitation of Littlefinger, Varys and Tyrion have lost what made them great I think. Stannis, who I did actually like, is dead. He served very little purpose to the story though, and you can really see that after his death.
I hope I haven't broken any rules by talking about sexuality, and I hope my own revelation won't offend or upset anyone but it was something I was curious to see if anyone else had formed an opinion on.
As for Loras, his focus thus far has seemed to be on getting in the sack...and that's a total stereotype. Other than that, they haven't bothered to develop his character much.
Anyway, really good characters on this show seem to come to a bad end...Eddard and Catelyn, anyone?