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athousanderrors) wrote2019-06-08 08:02 pm
athousanderrors) wrote2019-06-08 08:02 pm
aerialiste: foxmulders: “Nobody grows. Nobody
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aerialiste:
foxmulders:
“Nobody grows. Nobody gets better or more interesting. The story of ‘Game of Thrones’ right now is a story of regression, of spectacle over humanity. Maybe the saddest moment in all of this is when Jaime, the poster child for the redemptive character arc, the man who has earned better and earned better and earned it again, is offered happiness and hope and throws it all away because the plot demands that he has to be in King’s Landing for the next couple episodes. That’s the problem when you stop caring about characters, about humans in your stories, and only care about the denouement and not how you get there. You become cruel, and you force people to be cruel to themselves and others to get them where you need them to go, and you say that it is the story of the world.”
— Laura Hudson, “Game of Thrones” Recap: So Much for Breaking the Wheel
#look: game of thrones is the stanford prison experiment or the lord of the flies of television #the shitty white men writing this show truly believe that a story about the violent pursuit of power is a universal one #they literally can’t imagine other ways that things could happen#oh a man is stronger and has more social power than a woman? well he’ll probably rape her then #oh an army is winning and the other side surrenders? they’ll probably loot and pillage and murder everyone since nothing’s in their way #oh a character could choose *not* to put themselves first over literally everyone in a shortsighted grasping power grab? nahhh unrealistic #this is the flat assed storytelling you get when white cis patriarchal hegemony turns all your media into a mirror of themselves #i don’t object to a well-told tragedy! or a story of destiny or hubris! #but this grimdark shit where *everyone’s* heart is secretly a cauldron of pure brutal self-interest is the *dudest* of male fantasies #and i’m the opposite of about it [the genius tags of, as always,robotmango]
why must white men be so hobbesian, rousseau WON THE DEBATE Y’ALL
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aerialiste:
foxmulders:
“Nobody grows. Nobody gets better or more interesting. The story of ‘Game of Thrones’ right now is a story of regression, of spectacle over humanity. Maybe the saddest moment in all of this is when Jaime, the poster child for the redemptive character arc, the man who has earned better and earned better and earned it again, is offered happiness and hope and throws it all away because the plot demands that he has to be in King’s Landing for the next couple episodes. That’s the problem when you stop caring about characters, about humans in your stories, and only care about the denouement and not how you get there. You become cruel, and you force people to be cruel to themselves and others to get them where you need them to go, and you say that it is the story of the world.”
— Laura Hudson, “Game of Thrones” Recap: So Much for Breaking the Wheel
#look: game of thrones is the stanford prison experiment or the lord of the flies of television #the shitty white men writing this show truly believe that a story about the violent pursuit of power is a universal one #they literally can’t imagine other ways that things could happen#oh a man is stronger and has more social power than a woman? well he’ll probably rape her then #oh an army is winning and the other side surrenders? they’ll probably loot and pillage and murder everyone since nothing’s in their way #oh a character could choose *not* to put themselves first over literally everyone in a shortsighted grasping power grab? nahhh unrealistic #this is the flat assed storytelling you get when white cis patriarchal hegemony turns all your media into a mirror of themselves #i don’t object to a well-told tragedy! or a story of destiny or hubris! #but this grimdark shit where *everyone’s* heart is secretly a cauldron of pure brutal self-interest is the *dudest* of male fantasies #and i’m the opposite of about it [the genius tags of, as always,
robotmango]why must white men be so hobbesian, rousseau WON THE DEBATE Y’ALL
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