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 Originally Posted by JKDS
This debate is silly. Slippery slopes are logical fallacies, and the characters have been in two episodes already (there have only been two so far).
"Important" is a relative term anyway, and the whole idea of arguing over someone saying that is funny. I mean, werent all named characters in season 1 important to some extent? All you're doing by arguing about this is alienating book readers from talking about the show.
"slippery slope" is not a logical fallacy. It can be a logical fallacy, but it depends on how it is employed.
Creating an atmosphere where book readers feel free to say things like "I can't wait for you guys to see how X develops" or "X is important!", when from the viewpoint of a show watcher there is no overwhelming reason to believe X is any more important than Y, is to create an atmosphere where spoilers will be posted. baudib's use of "X is important" is fairly innocuous, but if it goes unchecked it serves to create this atmosphere. Hence, a slippery slope. There is no fallacy here.
Jory is a s01 named character. He was not really in anyway important. Hodor is a named character.
With regards to book readers being alienated... what in the fuck are you talking about? Please, if you are a book reader, join in... talk about the show, talk about the books in spoiler tags, talk about how the show relates/compares to the books in spoiler tags, but don't do the latter two in open posts. How is that complicated? How does that alienate anyone? How is having a thread that views hints and cues from book readers not alienating to non book readers? How can you not see that you have this completely backwards?
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