I like her idea.
You go grrl.
Posted on 04/30/2019 7:17:30 AM PDT by EdnaMode
On last night's Game of Thrones, the priestess Melisandre saunters in at the last possible minute to light up the Arakhs of the Dothraki in flames. It both offers the assembled forces of Winterfell and the audience at home a brief glimmer of hope before the next sixty or so minutes of horror film-meets-battle scene tension, and results in a clever cinematic trick.
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Narratively however, it also also literally represents the end of what was left of Daenerys' 100,000+ Dorthraki horde. Assumedly, sure, there's the woman and children and possibly a few rogue hoards of Dothraki still left in Essos, but lest the show pulls a trick of "Oh, we actually have some more Dothraki over here, you just couldn't see them! It was dark!" this may have been their sendoff on the show. It was an abrupt end to an entire group who we were introduced to in the very first episode, and a people we've spent more time with and understand better than many of the populations of the actual seven kingdoms (What, exactly, is even happening in, say, The Reach, lately?) And it points to a worrying problem.
Where once it seemed like Game of Thrones had something to say about the topic of immigration and the introduction of new populations to the staid old continent of Westeros, I'm no longer sure it's interested in such heady ideas anymore. It continues to burn up entire ethnicities like kindling in the fire of expensive battle scenes, revealing that it only introduced them in the first place to populate its numerous bloodbaths. Entire peoples with proud, interesting histories have been given the send off of a random red shirt cadet in Star Trek.
(Excerpt) Read more at wmagazine.com ...
In troducing characters just to kill them is the basic theme of the show.
They’re afraid of this driving a real-world debate, I guess. Politics downstream of culture etc.
They’re just political power pawns, anyway, just like in real life. What’s the problem?
I like her idea.
You go grrl.
I had to break up watching the show into a couple of segments.
The intensity got to be too much.
I don’t know when I became such a wimp.
All those intensive video games ... and for what? LOL
Is this the old Women’s wear Daily?
I don’t think so. Remember Sonny Corleone chiding Michael “this is business and he’s taking it personal”.
This author definitely seems to be taking it personally.
It does seem to me, though, that after 7 years of buildup that they are rushing to a close. The easiest way to do that is to kill everyone off. They’ve started on that.
Is this the Onion?
Not only that but aren’t they following the books? I only watched first season and never read the books. But I heard they were based on the books. If it was so unacceptable by this idiot, you’d think it would have been discussed during the printing.
holy moley
So this writer thinks the Dothraki are metaphors for Europe’s Muslims and our illegals from Central America? Well ... a conquering horde with nothing but contempt for the people they are overrurning ... Yeah, I take the point. And since all cultures are equal, Dothraki pillagers just add to the diversity we should embrace.
Make up your mind.
“It was created in 1972 by the publisher of sister magazine Women’s Wear Daily” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W_(magazine)
I thought it was going to be a funny facetious article, but this chucklehead is actually serious! He does really consider this fictional plot a serious problem. Who has time to worry about such nonsense?
There is no such thing as fiction anymore. To a vast number of people perception has replaced reality. Everything they experience and learn comes from a screen.
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