Ironborn stuff is great because it's basically vikings. You all have shitty taste in entertainment.
Name "cool attributes" about vikings.
Apply said "cool attributes" to the iron born.
Do the iron born do any of these things-other than paying the "iron price"? pretty much nope.
Anything "cool", or "interesting" about the iron born is all implied, who cares about implied shit when you're reading about them?
"Fuck yeah, i love <that iron born guy> he was so badass in those battles we know absolutely minimal about! What a cool bad ass dude! yeah!"
The only remotely interesting iron born POV is Victarion, and even then it's not even about him, it's more "who the fuck, or what the fuck is going to happen with this charred bodied red priest" etc.
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I do see potential in TWOW for Victarion, by then he'll be in mereen, and shit will start to go down. It's the same kind of thing as Bran, theres a lot of potential, but it's not there yet imo.