I suspect it is the actor as well. Madden does a decent enough job, and Robb is a character it is easy to like - after all he doesn't hang out with weird red priestesses, push children out of the window or tell people to go bugger themselves with a sword.
Which is rather my problem with Robb. Not the fact that he is a decent person, but rather that I find him uninteresting when compared to other, more complex characters like Stannis or Jaime.
As someone who likes Cat I just hope that Robb's popularity won't sidetrack her from the story. Part of what I liked about that part of the narrative was how it showed war from the perspective of a woman who kept loosing her children in struggle, and so you had the glory of war and the Young Wolf on one hand, and Cat desperately trying to rescue her children on the other. I just thought it was a clever way for Martin to comment on the cost and horrors of war. If they focus too much on Robb as the hero I'm afraid they'll loose that.
Re: Rhaegar. I'm fascinated by Rhaegar as a character, but I don't really understand the need to proclaim him as "the best thing ever". Some people in the series think highly of him, to be sure, but if there is one thing ASOIAF has shown is that POV can be misleading. Before I can see how Rhaegar was so grand, I need to know what happened in regards to Lyanna. We're told that he loved her, yet we never really learn of her feelings in the matter. I rather hope it was consensual, but you never know.
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Date: 2011-09-27 02:55 pm (UTC)Which is rather my problem with Robb. Not the fact that he is a decent person, but rather that I find him uninteresting when compared to other, more complex characters like Stannis or Jaime.
As someone who likes Cat I just hope that Robb's popularity won't sidetrack her from the story. Part of what I liked about that part of the narrative was how it showed war from the perspective of a woman who kept loosing her children in struggle, and so you had the glory of war and the Young Wolf on one hand, and Cat desperately trying to rescue her children on the other. I just thought it was a clever way for Martin to comment on the cost and horrors of war. If they focus too much on Robb as the hero I'm afraid they'll loose that.
Re: Rhaegar. I'm fascinated by Rhaegar as a character, but I don't really understand the need to proclaim him as "the best thing ever". Some people in the series think highly of him, to be sure, but if there is one thing ASOIAF has shown is that POV can be misleading. Before I can see how Rhaegar was so grand, I need to know what happened in regards to Lyanna. We're told that he loved her, yet we never really learn of her feelings in the matter. I rather hope it was consensual, but you never know.