tv not following the novel any more = bad story
I watched a couple seasons because someone told me it was the American Tolkien. However, the nonstop sex and violence and utter lack of any moral redeeming qualities mean it is nothing like Tolkien, an I have given up on it.
People are attracted to stories that reflect reality and put what they see or experience into some context. TV stories (especially non censored cable shows) have moved far beyond the one hour formula where a disconcerting problem begins the story at 9:00pm and by 10:00pm, the problem has been happily resolved and the characters who are meant to reflect the viewers leave content and happy. Also from an entertainment perspective sex, violence, decadence and dastardly behavior sells. When you think about it, the shows such as Game of Thrones merely reflect the modern culture and tastes it seeks to amuse.
Sansa blew it when she turned on and refused Brienne’s help. We also can’t forget how the mother of dragons turned her marital rape into a triumph.
For the life of me I can’t understand why people just don’t either:
A) turn the channel
B) don’t bother watching from the start
C) accept the fact that the show seems pretty much realistic when you read the history of the time and just accept you are going to be shocked.
To try to make this out to be some sort of attempt to shock based on today’s morality is just historically ignorant. This crap happened all the time throughout history. Religious morality is mostly based on combating what happened with regularity in certain periods of history.
And we STILL see it happening in various parts of the world we live in NOW.
I’ve never bothered to watch the show and it seems I made the wise decision. Vote with your cable remote.
Not interested in the books. Not interested in the series.
Showing the beheaded George W. Bush as a prop? And sniggering about it when they got caught?
“American Tolkien?!?”
Utter bullshite.
Well, while ‘Game of Thrones’ (GoT) is most certainly fiction, history is replete with equally horrid examples of rulers behaving badly. From ancient Ba’al infant sacrifices to Caligula & Nero to Countess Elizabeth Bathory, just to name a few. After all absolute rule tends to lead to absolute corruption (Lord Acton.)
Since I have yet to watch a single minute of GoT (I found the original books tiresome in that the hero were always killed and I am not that nihilistic), this has impact because it is visual media and this character was as close to a hero and innocent as any in the cast. My feeling is that if someone is revealed by this, why are they watching the series at all? After all, from what I know of the obvious back stories, this is going on behind the scenes everywhere!
Rapes of this violent nature are occurring right now in ISIS controlled areas.
Libtards cannot even make the obvious association.
My approach to this seeming conundrum was verified when an issue of the Tracinski letter alerted it's readers to just what was going on with the show. I have other, better, more productive and satisfying ways of utilizing my entertainment time (and dollars) than with crap like this.
The only thing Martin has in common with Tolkien is the way he presents his name (George R. R. Martin).
Other than that, there is no similarity whatsoever.
CA....
Turn off the Satanic TV in your home. Don’t lie to yourself and say it is not in large part responsible for the creation of the monsters in our society who were brought up watching depravity since they were able to sit upright. The hours spent watching evil addicts the soul to evil.
“Whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good reputation, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy…think about these things.” “ (Philippians 4:8)
Nothing was shown, only implied. It was an arranged, politically convenient marriage between two people with no real affection for each other. What’s so shocking about it?
Brutal? Maybe, but not graphic. It all takes place off camera.
for those that did not watch the episode...
the female in question consented to marry and indeed was married. the person she married is quite despised and the scene in question was held in their bed chambers on their wedding night. the man made his intentions to consummate the marriage quite roughly known to sansa. she consented and she was then ‘done in’ (which was pretty much what happened with drogo and daenerys in the first season)
this was sansa’s second marriage, but her first husband would not consummate the union unless she allowed it. she never did (before she ran off after being an unwitting accomplice in the killing of the king).
the marriage itself is invalid, as she is still wed to tyrion ... but that doesn’t seem to matter to anyone involved
