Interesting Article on the Jon Snow TV Character

[DBSoT]

http://www.vox.com/2015/4/12/8387339/jo ... ones-awful

The article does a good job of explaining the flaws with the Jon Snow character and explains how he is more of a plot point than an in depth character.

[Hanley!]

I totally agree with the article. Though I don't think the acting performance by Harrington helps. He's very wooden and constantly wears a sulky face that makes him very difficult to like. In the book Snow is a bit more likable, but his chapters are still irritating as they often don't go anywhere, and as the article said, stuff just happens to him. He's never active in his own destiny.

Though I do think Daenerys is almost as boring. And her acting performance is equally unimpressive. It's weird that these two look like they're going to be the young breakout stars from the show, when they're two of the least interesting and least impressive performers in the whole show. Daenerys does make more decisions than Snow, which makes her seem a bit more interesting ... but there's no sense of progression in her story, and a lot of it plays out in a very phony way. She keeps having to invade cities the audience has never heard of, before going to Westeros. It feels very much like the author is inventing new stuff for her to do, just to keep her from getting to the Seven Kingdoms just yet. And considering that A Song of Ice and Fire was originally supposed to be a trilogy, I'm guessing that is exactly what is happening.

That's my big problem with the stuff in both the north and the south, I guess. When the show focuses on the Seven Kingdoms, it's amazing. It's full of political intrigue, with political players forming alliances, stabbing each other in the back, making plans, fighting wars. There are all these moving pieces interacting with each other and changing over time. But outside the Seven Kingdoms everything feels static. These pieces aren't even part of the game. Everything that happens to Daenerys and with the wight walkers feels like stalling. They're just hanging around until it's time for them to do stuff.

It has long been my fear that the entire show will end with the most boring characters fighting the second most boring, and all the great stuff that's been going on within the Seven Kingdoms will have been for naught. Hope I'm wrong on that one though.

I will say that having read the books, there is scope for both Jon and Daenerys to get significantly more interesting this season than they have been before though. So I hope they really deliver on that potential.