Quote from yesterday (about Stannis):
Theon_Greyjoy | Posted 4/25/2012 4:33:14 AM | message detail | filter | (edited) | #031
His lines are fantastic for one. I love his sense of humor, which he's "technically" not supposed to have.
If you want good lines, his opponent Arya easily dominates the field (except maybe Tyrion). Like the comment you quoted about "he's welcome to try" to hurt him seems like pretty generic tough guy talk... it earns him a few badassery points but I definitely wouldn't consider it anything special. Plenty of people in other stories have used the exact same line. On the other hand, I've never heard of anything like Arya's litany before, and I get chills when I read it.
Stannis is pretty easy to sum up, he's basically honorable but unbending and sees everything in black and white. If he were a POV character it might be interesting to see him try to negotiate a complex situation with his inadequate worldview. But as a non-POV character he basically comes across as static and predictable. Arya is way more dynamic and complex, which makes her more interesting to read about. The stuff where she travels with the Hound is some of the best material in the whole series because of the way their relationship develops, and the similarities between them.
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