I'm going to have to agree with you and say it's a combo of the attractive young actor and the writing on the show that fleshes Robb out a bit more.
Jon Snow was already considered hot and sexy and loveable and all that in the books for most fangirls, and casting Kit Harington as our favorite LC just put that through the roof. ;)
What bugs me about Robb's shitty decision making is that in fandom, all of the women get a lot of vitriolic hate about their shitty decisions - Catelyn, Dany, Sansa, even Cersei - but the men, less so.
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Date: 2011-09-27 07:11 pm (UTC)Jon Snow was already considered hot and sexy and loveable and all that in the books for most fangirls, and casting Kit Harington as our favorite LC just put that through the roof. ;)
What bugs me about Robb's shitty decision making is that in fandom, all of the women get a lot of vitriolic hate about their shitty decisions - Catelyn, Dany, Sansa, even Cersei - but the men, less so.