Why Game of Thrones does exactly what it always did…
and people are going nuts over it.
I watch GOT. I love it. I didn’t used to watch it, cause the first season seemed boring. But after season 7 I did. Why? Because there was a love story.
To me GOT was always a dude’s show. Fire, blood, violence and titties. No real depth in characters, no vulnerability was ever really captured. I had to think really hard to understand that Cercei’s motives were in fact fear. Oh she was cruel, but in the end, she was shipped to marry, ignored in her marriage, slapped around, humiliated, her kids died and was passed over when it came to responsibilities, and shipped to marry another guy when suitable. But we did not feel that vulnerability in her, and how she only had Jamie, in fact, to hold her and tell her it’s going to be alright. (We saw it in the end and I was very glad they captured that moment. BTW, Did anyone else notice the parallel, of TWINS, going down in Rubles?)
So, knowing that this was a fairy tale for bloodthirsty nerds, with very little undertones of vulnerability, affection, I was not surprised at the awkward love scenes between Arya and Gentry and Jamie and Brienne. This is a show with dragons, blood, beheading, stabbings, titties and big, very big swords. Big. The hero is borderline autistic ( at least in the beginning) and non threatening. The women are seen naked at least once for the male audience viewing pleasure. If GOT was a sex act, it would be fast, hard, and without foreplay, obviously.
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And now we come at the end, and the viewers are attached to the characters, and as they feel it ends, they need…more. More scenes with verbal conflict, with depth,with reactions to revelations, suspense , but GOT is doing what it does best. Puts people on fire, destroys shit, sprays blood and gore. And throw a surprise bomb. And people lose their shit, because there was no climax, no buildup leading to the gore, the sprayed blood and the fire. Or the surprise.
But neither did the Red wedding, or any other scene. Except maybe the one where Arya kills the Night king. There was a build up and the surprise was true to character and plot. But Daneerys’ loneliness, being shuned by her man’s family, the rejection, where she feels she lost friends, lover, subjects, throne, was not portrayed. We only saw ego, anger, without the layers underneath. We saw the dude’s approach, the dude’s view, as usual. A crazy chick, without explanation as to why she lost her shit. No insight.
And people lose their shit. Why? When was GOT any different? It was not, it is us who changed.
To me, it’s a little like we are the John, visiting a hooker, a gorgeous creature we dont fuss over. She is here to meet our needs with spectacular poses and breaking all taboos, and when after a while and multiple visits, she is ready to retire, go home or get married, we feel betrayed she leaves without giving us even a hug.
Snap out of it.
