Originally Posted by
chionos
Humor. I think this is one of the great strengths of Game of Thrones, that it can find ways to be humorous and make us laugh even in such bleak and terrible settings. I point to, for instance, many of Arya's interactions with the Hound, and previously with A MAN.
Secondly, not all good guys are squeaky clean, and not all bad guys are all bad. GoT characters seem to (for the most part, there are exceptions) have strengths AND weaknesses. We hate Jaime, we love him. He befriended Brienne, he's turning into a good guy, yay...oops no he raped his sister. Oh but he wants to help his brother, who everyone else is against, yay...etc etc. People aren't all bad or all good. Each person has his/her own personal desires and motivations which either contradict or compliment his/her surroundings and this determines what is good or bad. Final Fantasies in general fail in this regard, though there are exceptions. (FFVI's Celes and General Leo to an extent, Reeve Tuesti maybe a little bit, but even these are just bad guys turned good guys, as are basically every other example). There should be character ambiguities, depth of character, in both the protagonists and antagonists.
