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Originally Posted by Robbie
Give it a bit...in the books, the war between the Lanisters and the Starks isn't even the focus anymore. Hell, there's hardly any of them left. That's the frustration of the books...the whole thing started off with the King being best friends with Ned Stark and needing his help and was a pretty good setup and storyline with all the intrigue and incest, etc. But in the books...that storyline was for NOTHING. None of it meant anything. And the "war" meant nothing. And most of the characters that he gets you invested in...mean nothing. I'm not even sure that he has any idea in his mind where this whole story is going to go. He's like a writer with ADD. lol
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The same is true of all human history.
At the end of WWII Hitler dies. Anyone 'watching events as if he was the protagonist' would be left to wonder wtf, this story isn't even about the Nazis, Germany, Hitler or the 3rd Reich at all... Similarly, there were people who thought the Medici family was the most important of all time... 'hardly any of them are left anymore and their squabbles which all seemed so important aren't even the focus of the story at all now.'
Martin has managed to craft a series of books without a protagonist. The story is not about any character, family, or particular battle. The fact that you assume Ned Stark is the protagonist, or that any one war is the most significant, doesn't change that. It is a history of a world and history is never as clean or perfectly wrapped up as one might want it to be. Humans have a very hard time accepting that their own small keyhole point of view is not the universal perspective.
