If soaps had swords and dragons and lots of blood.It's about the extreme emotions the story puts you through, then you walk away, but you can't stay away...
Like I said. Soap.
If soaps had swords and dragons and lots of blood.It's about the extreme emotions the story puts you through, then you walk away, but you can't stay away...
Like I said. Soap.
Slipped my mind, bein' a hetero female, but I do remember that Tyrion Lannister is the god of tits and wine.And Tits. Don't forget the tits.
If soaps had swords and dragons and lots of blood.It's about the extreme emotions the story puts you through, then you walk away, but you can't stay away...
Like I said. Soap.
Oh yeah, I forgot about Dark Shadows. I notice a distinct lack of dragons and swords, so still kind of lame compared to GoT, though.If soaps had swords and dragons and lots of blood.It's about the extreme emotions the story puts you through, then you walk away, but you can't stay away...
Like I said. Soap.
Why not? Dark Shadows was about a vampire, it also had werewolves, zombies, witches, warlocks, etc. Pretty much the kind of characters.
This is not a spoiler rather an opinion. It appears to me that Dany is a Mary Sue in literary terms. I don't think Martin is a hack and is writing a Mary Sue to please people or himself. I suspect she is in for a huge downfall from him as he destroys that troup. I wonder how the show will handle her.Dany's story has been absolutely amazing this season so far.
I'm actually expecting worse. Just wait until some of the former oppressed start burning their own livestock hoping to get three times the value by blaming the dragons. Once she realizes most people are greedy treacherous scumbags I think she is going to snap.It seems like
trying to actually rule Mereen on a day-to-day basis
might turn out to be that situation.
The books tell you that they are not sequential. The events of Storm of Swords and A feast For Crows occur in the same time frame. Hopefully he will finish within the next couple of years and not follow his habit of long gaps between books. I also have confidence the Series can end it for us if he does not finish them.I am glad HBO has deviated firmly from that monstrous crap that was the books. I was suspicious on the third book, and downright pissed on the 4th, and my suspicions were confirmed in the 5th. Martin himself is lost in this crap.
The last episode gave me hope that there will eventually be a resolution in the TV series, and probably before the final book gets written, about 15 years from now.
This is not a spoiler rather an opinion. It appears to me that Dany is a Mary Sue in literary terms. I don't think Martin is a hack and is writing a Mary Sue to please people or himself. I suspect she is in for a huge downfall from him as he destroys that troup. I wonder how the show will handle her.Dany's story has been absolutely amazing this season so far.
Dany's story has made me cringe from the beginning. Every decision she made seemed like a setup for a comeuppance. But she kept succeeding in spite of logic, and I got used to it. I figured sooner or later she'd run into a situation that couldn't be resolved by slaughtering unsympathetic characters, or helping innocents, or making a big, dramatic speech, or by a character with much needed wisdom/skills/resources inexplicably swearing fealty to her at exactly the right moment.
It seems like
trying to actually rule Mereen on a day-to-day basis
might turn out to be that situation.
You see, that would hurt the audience less.
Its all about hurting the audience.
Myth is by definition fiction. And even if it was non-fiction, it still wouldn't be binding upon other works of fiction. Or do you mean the mythology of the ASOIAF setting? Are dragons in this setting wise, canonically? As depicted in the TV series so far, dragons appear to be nothing more than animals that happen to have supernatural abilities, like the direwolves.Since taking her vengeance on the witch she has come unto her own. Her dragons are in their teenage years and will give her problems as we already see. However, they are her children and even though capricious in nature, myth tells us dragons are loyal and wise.
Yeah, I had a thought along those lines this morning. I can understand that Martin wants to do something a little different with his storytelling, something out of the mould of the 'good guys' facing adversity, sometimes tragedy, but ultimately things work out pretty well for them. I respect that, I really do - there is so much same same pap bullshit coming out of the entertainment industry these days that it's refreshing to see it from an author and a production house like HBO.
Though now it almost feels like he is taking it a little too far, only inconsequential things really go right for the good guys, setbacks are similarly trivial for the bad ones. Your hopes are maintained by these trivial victories while the best characters, after sufficient development and screen-time for genuine appreciation to set in, are killed off ruthlessly.
Mike Cavalier said:You might find certain people, like Tyrion Lannister or Jimmy McNulty, more likable than others, but this is not about them; this is not their story, nor is it their hero’s journey. If anything, it’s the world itself — Westeros or West Baltimore — that serves in place of the central character. The citizens are merely collateral damage, and the villain is The System itself (be it the Iron Throne or the city’s bureaucracy), with its countless instances of corruption, dysfunction, and dehumanizing indifference to suffering.
These are shows that are ultimately about power: the structures that organize it, and competing strategies to seize it. The different clans, cultures, religions, ideologies, professions, and social classes are forever locked in dialogical struggle, jockeying for dominance with a significant degree of futility. Both are bleak, fatalistic Greek tragedies, where hubris and naïveté inevitably destroy everyone involved, and no one is spared.