Omg this is has to be the best show defense I’ve seen yet.
Like yeah, honeypotters are wildly more intelligent and creative than D&D and it’s great that they have an enjoyable outlet (though amazingly people find ways of being engaged with actually well-written pieces of media). That’s awesome.
But this is kind of like praising a bakery that gives you only stale bread because it really encourages customers to make great soups that can mask it. I’m very happy for all those soup makers but the BAKERY IS GIVING YOU STALE BREAD. It’s not magically this wonderful bakery because my brother’s matzo ball soup came out well. (He’s a honeypotter extraordinaire).
D&D do purposely leave things vague, for sure, because they can’t be bothered sorting out the details, mostly because there’s no logical details to bring something to fruition. Let’s just let people assume Carol and Batfinger had an important off-screen meeting with High Grandpa to set up a perjury trap! How would a scene like that have actually worked? Oh yeah, it wouldn’t.
But yes, I suppose it’s a silver lining that D&D’s incompetence has allowed others to flex their creative muscles. However to pretend this is really intentional or why the show needs to be defended is ridiculous. Come to the LoK fandom. Somehow we manage to have in-depth analysis, a plethora of transformative fanworks, and even people trying to fill in gaps for certain details there too (like Kuvira’s rise to power). That show is delicious challah. You can still make soup that pairs, but you also have the option of making French toast or just eating it plain. Have I tortured this analogy long enough? Kay.
I can handle some vague things and plot holes, but at this point Game of Thrones has way too much of that. AND there’s plenty of contradictions, sudden personality changes, and other paradoxical events (like, I doubt any amount of details about Batfinger’s or Varys’ Teleporting Travels could make them logical)
…that’s like the bakery giving you stale bread but it’s not just stale!
It has salami, nutella, olives and strawberry jam on it!
“But for all its apparently genuine efforts, the show is still clinging
to the idea of ‘feminism’ it’s had for many seasons, where strength and
badassness mean callousness, cruelty, and killing without guilt or
mercy.”– Rhiannon Thomas, Feminist Fiction
We here at Fandom Following are rather staunch Game of Thrones (GoT)…er…detractors. We know this might come as a shock.
However, we’re not disinterested in
the genre, nor are we the types of people who object to the depiction of
upsetting material, and therefore write off media that does so. Case
and point, we are huge, huge fans of A Song of Ice and Fire (aSoIaF),
the books this show is “based on.” Sadly for us, the showrunners David
Benioff and Dan Weiss (D&D) seem to be bigger fans of their own,
Bold™ ideas than the ones George R.R. Martin put on paper, to the point
where we came to realize how the show has absolutely nothing to do with the books, so #StopTheConflation.
There’s many ways you can join in on
this totally official campaign, such as yelling incoherently at social
gatherings when GoT inevitably comes up, or wearing a t-shirt with the
text of Septon Meribald’s “broken man speech” printed on the front in
size 6 font (or one of our book snob-approved shirts ).
But we have another way to set the right tone for fandom dialogue—that
is, a tone where aSoIaF could absolutely never be confused with its
sorry excuse for an adaptation—and that’s by coining certain terms and
character names.
Welcome, Lords and Ladies, to the Second Annual Carol Awards!
This prestigious ceremony is to honor the joy and entertainment that Game of Thrones Season 6 brought us. Each Golden Carol is a symbol of peer recognition for pure, unabashed book snobbery, from 1884 voters.
We don’t like to think that there are “winners” and “losers” at the Carols. Just being nominated is an honor in and of itself. And the stiff competition in most categories is a testament to how nuanced adaptational butchery can be.
This year, the Carol Awards are being held to honor the life, and the works, of Good Queen Carol. Though she was tragically taken from us when the Evil Cheryl stole her skin, will we always remember her relatable desire to protect her children from clear danger, and we will never forget how wisely she ruled and took on the patriarchy. Also how she always had the orange slices prepared.
can you believe game of thrones took doran martell’s iconic “vengeance, justice, fire and blood” speech and gave it to ellaria (who murdered him for literally no reason) and varys
and they took arianne’s “what is our heart’s desire?” line and gave it to olenna
so basically they wanted to adapt doran’s book plot, just not with him in it. instead they replaced him with the character who murdered him and a white man and replaced arianne with a white woman, because that’s totally not racist
lmao Doran’s line is about getting justice for Elia and her children and they gave it to a fucking child murderer. And they gave Arianne’s line to a racist twat who called Ellaria “The Serpent’s Whore.”
So, something that really baffles me is how people (following season 6) are calling Game of Thrones a “feminist” show. Um, no. It’s not a feminist show when literally no female character is portrayed positively other than tomboyish little girls. What I got from the last season of GOT is that women in power are all vengeful, sadistic psychopaths, prone to irrational behavior. That’s not feminist. That’s actually textbook misogyny.
And it’s not feminist when all the female characters react pretty much the same way( smirk at violent acts, just kill people, don’t believe in anything but power through violence, and bloody revenge) with no dimensionality to their personalities or motivations. They become vengeful women tropes instead of complex characters.
Or the people that think GoT is great lgb representation even though Yara raped a sex slave, Loras had all of his book characterization taken away to be reduced to gay stereotypes and was pointlessly tortured before dying, and Oberyn and Ellaria were over sexualized.
It is a parody of feminism. It’s like “Game of Thrones” is one giant Onion article that everyone thought was real.
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