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How Game of Thrones has got it in for people of colour
UK Guardian ^ | May 6, 2019 | Hanna Flint

Posted on 05/08/2019 3:34:10 AM PDT by C19fan

When you’re a pop culture-loving person of colour you learn to take the character wins where you can, but on Game of Thrones the losses just keep piling up. There is barely a brown person left alive in the long-running fantasy series – and after the broadcast of season eight, episode four, yet another of the few minority ethnic characters became an expendable casualty of the writers’ room. “So,” director Ava DuVernay tweeted in response to the death of Missandei (Nathalie Emmanuel). “The one and only sister on the whole epic, years-long series? That’s what you wanna do? Okay.”

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KEYWORDS: gameofthrones; got; race
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To: Vaquero
He found it because of the amulet. They would have gotten the amulet

They might have, they might not have. The point is, the Nazi's had 1/2 of the amulet and got the location wrong. It would have taken them far longer and quite possibly never found the location. Fact is, Indy found it. Although, the calculations were wrong for the height of the staff Indy used anyway...

41 posted on 05/08/2019 5:36:41 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: Vaquero

If the explanation for things that make no sense at all even within the story world itself is “it’s not real”, that’s pretty much the definition of a poorly written story. Suspension of disbelief is fundamental to audience enjoyment of any form of fictional creative work.


42 posted on 05/08/2019 6:01:07 AM PDT by thoughtomator (The Clinton Coup attempt was a worse attack on the USA than was 9/11)
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To: Vaquero

> Indiana Jones was irrelevant to what happened in Raiders of the Lost Arc.

The trope subversion in this case was part of what made the film such a standout production. He doesn’t have to be relevant to how the larger story unfolds; he just has to be at the locations where the story is told. The story itself is compelling enough on its own without needing the protagonist to affect it; and that the protagonist can’t affect it, for all his efforts, builds towards the sense of divine power and inevitability that is personified (objectified) by the Ark itself. So rather than a conflict or a reason not to suspend disbelief, this use of the protagonist as basically a roving camera to the story locations works quite coherently with the overall theme of the movie.

Contrast to introducing hyperdrive weapons to SW. All of a sudden, everything else that has happened in the entire series is subject to the question of why hyperdrive weapons aren’t being utilized, and why their existence hasn’t shaped the battlefield.


43 posted on 05/08/2019 6:09:11 AM PDT by thoughtomator (The Clinton Coup attempt was a worse attack on the USA than was 9/11)
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To: Vaquero

Amy was wrong also. If Jones hadn’t blown up the plane, the ark would have gone to Germany, not, to an island in the Aegean Sea.

Hitler might have died had Jones not stolen the ark.

The Sub ride to the island was AFTER the fact of Jones intervention.

Take that Amy Farrah Fowler


44 posted on 05/08/2019 6:20:41 AM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: winner3000

Indeed. If one’s worldview is view through the prism of race; everything that happens is about race. It’s nonsense of course but they are not able to see otherwise due to those bolted on blinders racists always wear.


45 posted on 05/08/2019 6:22:41 AM PDT by Boomer (One can be an American or a Democrat but never both; not since Zero was elected anyway.)
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To: sphinx

It’s already been done. “Black Panther” Perhaps the most racist movie I’ve ever seen.


46 posted on 05/08/2019 6:24:43 AM PDT by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: thoughtomator
If the explanation for things that make no sense at all even within the story world itself is “it’s not real”, that’s pretty much the definition of a poorly written story. Suspension of disbelief is fundamental to audience enjoyment of any form of fictional creative work.

Exactly. This is what I've taken to calling "the law of magical integrity." The same point goes for science fiction. It all boils down to internal consistency and characters acting rationally in terms of the magical/sci fi elements, which are known and reasonably predictable in the fictional world.

47 posted on 05/08/2019 7:42:10 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: NativeSon
Hey, race-hate mongers! Spoiler alert - everyone dies in game of thrones.

Exactly! The most infamous episode, The Rains of Castemere contained The Red Wedding; and, I believe everyone who died there, horribly, were "white" people.

Missandei was murdered because Cersei is a vindictive b***h. Skin color was not even thought of when Cersei decided to do this.

Also, Missandei, I think, was a popular character. She was portrayed as a sweet girl who was dedicated to her Queen. I was quite sad to see Missandei go -- and her skin color had nothing to do with it. She was a very likable character.

48 posted on 05/08/2019 8:07:03 AM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: Craftmore

I would enjoy WD more if they killed off all the gay characters.


49 posted on 05/08/2019 11:32:57 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Sam Gamgee
I would enjoy WD more if they killed off all the gay characters.

The fans did that for American Idol.

50 posted on 05/08/2019 11:36:06 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro

awesome, though I never watch that show.


51 posted on 05/08/2019 11:44:02 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: C19fan

“I went to go see a movie called ‘Logan’s Run’ set in the future, ain’t no n_____s in it, I said, ‘White folks ain’t planning for us to be here.’” - Richard Pryor


52 posted on 05/08/2019 11:47:47 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: simpson96
"Liberals are the most miserable people on the planet. Even FICTION triggers them."

Yet half the country wants to give them total control of every aspect of our lives. Ughhhhh...

53 posted on 05/08/2019 11:57:38 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. D)
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To: FLT-bird

At least they didn’t kill Ned Stark, right? I mean, he was the main guy in the first episode, so we know he’s going to last the entire series.

Oh wait...


54 posted on 05/08/2019 1:17:48 PM PDT by Two Kids' Dad (((( Wake me when a prominent democrat gets prosecuted. ))))
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To: thoughtomator

Good points; at this point they’re just throwing sh!t on the wall and seeing if it sticks. I do believe it was to correct that earlier oversight, though; all the problems in the galaxy are caused by old white men with that correction, and most of the otherized creatures - and ALL of the otherized humans - are arrayed against them (and win).

Goofy PC BS...


55 posted on 05/08/2019 1:51:35 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: sphinx

A girl needs diversity....


56 posted on 05/12/2019 6:04:47 PM PDT by Salamander (Death makes angels of us all, and give us wings where we once had shoulders, smooth as ravens' claws)
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To: Salamander
A girl needs diversity....

What a girl needs at this point is a pretty good question. Arya just got complicated. The revenge monkey was marching into the Red Keep to kill Cersei; Sandor broke through at the last moment, made her realize that Cersei was doomed whether Arya killed her or not, and basically told Arya to choose life. Then she stumbled around the wreck of King's Landing long enough to break out of her silo, recognize that the suffering of so many innocents was fully the equal of her own, and discover compassion. Arya, compassion. Does not compute. A new character has been born.

She may end up with Gendry after all.

57 posted on 05/13/2019 3:21:26 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: sphinx

Though it won’t happen, I want Arya on the Iron Throne, with Nymeria at her side.

:D

/A girl loves her dog


58 posted on 05/13/2019 12:38:23 PM PDT by Salamander (Death makes angels of us all, and give us wings where we once had shoulders, smooth as ravens' claws)
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