5 for writing quality and character design, because this story gets those two things right, 1 star for story development and world background. The story plays out like a wall street financers wet dream, Robb randomly invents the printing press with no previous required technology in a medieval world, creates like 3 new business models out of nowhere, some guy from Braavos gives comes to him and gives him the method for double-book accounting, a random Maester under him discovers crop rotation and it TRIPLES production. The most plot armoured wishful thinking I've ever seen. Don't even get me started on the Maesters. He takes away dozens of Maesters from the citadel and no one does anything about it, is this even Game of Thrones anymore?
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