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Originally Posted by Silock
Well, that's kinda the point. Whenever something pivotal is about to happen, the person gets killed.
Killing people off for the sake of "shock value" isn't inherently exciting. For some characters, it works really well. For others, it just gets to the point where it's not worth investing in the character because you know they're just going to get killed. And because many of the characters are so one dimensional, there isn't a ton of character development overall. Out of all of the characters they introduce, there are only a few who ever grow and change, but because there are so many, we get far less of their interesting story lines than we should. That's one reason everyone wants more Tyrion. Not only is Dinklage doing an amazing job with the acting, his character has actually gotten to develop. It makes the story more interesting when that happens. I'm just going to assume he's going to die at some point, and I'll be more okay with that because we've gotten to see real character growth from him. A character that is nothing more than an unchanging archetype is tedious and it's just not exciting when they die.
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Everyone's entitled to their opinions, and I wasn't going to bother arguing with you, but this take just seems so far off base to me that I decided to respond a little.
Most of GRRM's characters are anything but one dimensional, so that just seems like a bizarre criticism to me. Part of what GRRM does so well is establish a character in your mind (i.e. Jaime throwing Bran off the tower in episode 1) and then proceed to change your perception of the character over time (i.e. most people now like Jaime).
Joffrey was one of the few one dimensional characters in the show, granted, but he was hardly tedious or boring, he was really fun to hate. Just a weird take away to me I guess as I think GRRM loves to create characters that are gray rather than black or white. Even that bitch Cersei loves her kids.