People giving Ned Stark a pass for wanting to behead Jorah for selling poachers into slavery because “slavery is illegal in Westeros” but not giving Dany a pass for killing slavers in Slaver’s Bay because “it’s part of their culture”…
You are not anti slavery. You are just anti breaking the “law.”
That’s how all the great houses started, isn’t it? With a hard bastard who was good at killing people. Kill a few hundred people, they make you a Lord. Kill a few thousand, they make you KingQueen. —Bronn of the Blackwater, 8x04
The Iron Bank backed Cersei over Daenerys because Daenerys had freed the slaves of Slaver’s Bay.
When Cersei was giving her pitch to whats-his-face from Sherlock, and he told her that the Lannisters were in quite a lot of debt, she points out to him that Lannisters always pay their debts and asks him how debts get paid by former slaves.
The Iron Bank backed Cersei because they knew with Daenerys out of the way, the Slave Trade would return to Essos, therefore earning back the Iron Bank one of it’s main sources of profit.
And yet, we’re still supposed to see Dany’s war for the Iron Throne as a bad thing….?
That scene in Season 7 essentially told us, slavery would return to the regions Dany had worked hard for nearly her entire show arc to eradicate, if she did not win the throne. We saw yet another thing at stake if Dany were to lose.
But Dany’s the bad guy for wanting to eliminate Cersei?
D&D are truly fools. They paid 0 attention to the drivel they wrote themselves and expected us to not pay attention too.
I’m sorry, but no.
The more I think about it, the less I accept this fucking bullshit. Not that I was ever going to come to terms with the dumpster fire that was Season 8, but now, more than ever, I realize how utterly ridiculous it was for us to see Dany as the villain.
D&D: Yeah, you know, the way Dany reacts to her husband killing her abusive brother who literally just threatened to cut out her unborn child from her womb was really cold and was totally foreshadowing of her going mad later on.
Tyrion: *literally murders his own father with a crossbow after first murdering his ex lover after finding her in his father’s bed*
What if Tyrion had wanted to name Sansa Queen of the Seven Kingdoms and not Bran?
And, in such a scenario:
Do you think Sansa would have turned down the offer to remain in the North?
OR Do you think Sansa would have taken the gig, but insisted that Bran or Arya rule the North as its Sovereign because the North deserved its independence.
Or would Sansa have been fine with the idea that the North remain part of the Seven Kingdoms and under her domain?
It’s hard to imagine Sansa turning down such an offer OR accepting it but insisting the North be independent.
She tells her own uncle whom she’s never even met before, to essentially STFU and sit while he was in the middle of a speech, embarrassing and humiliating him - a man who was held captive for years because he supported her brother, the REAL Sovereign of the North who was chosen by his people, Robb. Piece of evidence #1 that Sansa wanted to be QOT7K (making one of the candidates for the job look unappealing by making him seem ridiculous and weaker than her).
She offers objection to Bran being King, saying that he can’t have children. Piece of evidence #2 that Sansa wanted to be QOT7K (making one of the candidates seem unappealing by bringing to light one of his seemingly glaring weaknesses). And, well, if Bran can’t be King, who would be next best option but his own able-bodied sister?
Sansa couldn’t take the whole cake, so she carved out a little piece and named herself the queen of it, knowing there was no way Grey Worm would allow for a scenario where Jon could return to being KITN and that Arya wouldn’t want the position anyway (she said in 7x07 that she would never make as good a Lady as Sansa), leaving herself as the only option.
Anyone who insists Sansa’s motives in S8 are pure or that she just wanted to protect her people or that she only had her people’s best interests in mind or that she really thought Dany was a tyrant, etc. etc. is lying to themselves.
One of the first things we ever hear Sansa say in the series aside from telling her sister to shut up, is that the only thing she has ever wanted was to be Queen. And the last scene we see of her is when she gets her crown and people are bowing to her.
So, yes, I’m in the midst of working on the last two episodes of my Original Final Season 7 (kinda) Meta Series.
And I was thinking about all the pieces of proof we have that S8 was all retconned and I came across this: (Granted, many people have pointed this out. But I just want to talk about it in detail)
In Season 2, we have this image from Dany’s HOTU scene:
The 7 Pointed Star is in the window behind the Iron Throne.
According to the 8x06 DVD commentary (from what I’ve read, haven’t listened to it myself), D&D claim they started thinking about Jon and Dany’s final scene together back when they were doing Season 3 or 4.
Which means they were thinking about Jon’s and Dany’s final scene together after they wrote, filmed, and released the episode which the image above is from.
So in Season 7, we get this:
This is a change only made in Season 7.
When Cersei is crowned queen at the end of Season 6, the 7 Pointed Star is still in the window, not the Lannister sigil:
So, at this point, according to D&D, when they wrote and filmed Season 7, they should have known Jon’s and Dany’s final scene. Perhaps the script for S8 wasn’t written yet. But they should have known (allegedly) that Jon would kill Dany in the throne room of the Red Keep, where the room would be a mirror of her vision back in Season 2.
But the sigil changed. Making Dany’s Season 2 vision…incorrect.
Now, if D&D knew as far back as S3 or S4 that they would have Jon kill Dany in the throne room of the Red Keep…why not tell the set dressers to leave the 7 Pointed Star as is behind the Iron Throne so that the scenes would match?
Instead, because of the change, they then had to blow out the entire back wall of the throne room so that the window dressing wasn’t an issue:
Likewise, Bran’s vision of a dragon flying over King’s Landing from Season 4:
Now, this scene was written around the time D&D were planning Jon’s and Dany’s last scene - the death scene. They likely knew they wanted the death scene to mirror Dany’s S2 vision - where there is SNOW in the throne room.
However, when we see a dragon flying over King’s Landing in Bran’s S4 vision, it’s sunny outside. The roof tops of King’s Landing are not covered in snow. It doesn’t even appear to be winter.
Now, if D&D are telling the truth in that all of this was planned years and years ago…
Why not make Bran’s vision of a dragon flying over King’s Landing be set during the winter? Why not have the city covered in snow when Dany attacks so that it will jive with the throne room scene which is most definitely set during winter due to the snow on the throne?
I’ll tell you why:
BECAUSE THEY’RE FUCKING LYING.
The throne room wall has to get blown out entirely to hide the mistake of the sigil change and King’s Landing has to go from 85 and sunny to like 20 and snowing over the course of a couple hours just to make these two “visions” jive together and make it look like they had planned this all along.
Which we know they didn’t.
So in conclusion, FUCK D&D.
(BTW Bran’s S4 vision also included a shot of the throne room and it also has the 7 Pointed Star sigil behind the Iron Throne so why were Bran and Dany both wrong about this?)
1) it was Arya Stark who sat at her father’s table to listen to him talk and discuss matters with his people, it was her whom the smallfolk affectionally knew as Arya Underfoot
2) it was Arya Stark who was canonically better at her sums and running a household
3) it was Arya Stark who went with Ned Stark to White Harbor
4) it was Arya Stark who fred the Northern prisoners from Harrenhal, who lead this tiny group of orphans into fighting and surviving
5) it was Arya Stark who suffered with the riverlands smallfolk the true hardships of war the North was fighting
6) it was Arya Stark who was betrothed to a Frey and who witnessed their crimes at the Red Wedding first hand
7) it is Arya Stark who is our link to the BWB, who are activately avenging the Red Wedding and keeping the reanimated Catelyn Stark as their leader
8) it is Arya Stark who has a direwolf army waiting for her to use (cause she’s a goddamn warg)
9) it is Arya Stark whom Ramsay falsely married to lay claim to Winterfell and the North
10) it is Arya Stark who the North is secretly plotting to get back, to rescue valiant Ned precious little girl
11) it is Arya Stark for whom Jon Snow is willing to bend the rules to rescue, letting a known Night’s Watch deserter and wildling chief go to Winterfell as well as giving sound political advice to Stannis
12) it is Arya Stark that Stannis is planning on rescueing and finding a good match for
13) it is Arya Stark who is a polyglot, who is learning to spy and detect lies
Arya Stark has always had political weight in ASOIAF, always. She was never an isolationist who avoided celebrations or lurked in shadows and never shared a word with her people or the bannermen. She was and is a leader of a pack, with a strong and powerful name; strong and powerful connections; strong and powerful abilities. Never forget that, the show did not adapt it because they were unable to adapt her sister correctly so they had to give her this weird mashed up plot, but it was always ARYA STARK , whobelonged in the North leading the wolves.
TWOW will prove me right, next year or in 7 more, I don’t c a r e.
you know that scene in the office where andy talks about how he was named walter jr until he was six and his brother was born and his parents felt his brother better exemplified the walter jr name? because that’s literally all i can think about with this spare aegon mess
Few days ago I was on Facebook, I saw a Star Trek page posting an article about Dumb & Dumber doing a new series. I thought for one second that it was something related to Star Trek and my heart stopped.
Seriously guys. Star Trek is my favorite story ever. It’s part of me. I went to Star Trek Cons and I even have a Starfleet Uniform in my wardrobe. Just thinking for one second that these two assholes could put their hands on it made me sweat with fear.
Thanks heavens it wasn’t about Star Trek. But you have no idea of the moments of despair I had before I realized it.
(PS: I love the comments LMAO)
After that, I started imagining how Star Trek (and particularly Deep Space Nine since it’s my favorite Star Trek series) would have ended if they wrote it.
First of all, after Sisko gone, the new captain of the station would be Morn. You all thought Kira Nerys would become captain, someone who already had a lot of experience in commanding and who was the captain of the station when Sisko couldn’t do it as his First Officer, but who the fuck cares, right? Let’s make Morn, someone who knows absolutely nothing about commanding since he spent all the series being in a bar drinking without saying a word, Captain of Deep Space Nine, because who has a better story than Morn?
Odo will never learn anything. He will betray again the only people who truly loved him and cared about him to be with someone who manipulated and used him everytime they met and he will choose his species above his friends because “They are hateful and so am I”.
Oh and obviously all his romantic relationship with Kira was a one night stand, and not a slow burn who started as a friendship and became something else during the story. You truly thought he would evolve to become a better person and realize he is own person? Ah, you wish! And remember all the years he spent living for his job because he cared about justice and that time he had a big weight inside because he felt guilty knowing few people died and it was his fault? Forget about it! The truth is he never cared about innocents.
Julian Bashir being a good man and a good doctor for all the series who cared about others doing everything he could to save them even if they were enemies? He is gonna get crazy in the finale without a reason and he’ll start to kill innocent people because he was genetically modified when he was a kid and since Khan was genetically modified too and he was a villain, he has to be a villain too because your genetics determine your future more than your actions and the person you are.
Garak being smart for all the series will obviously end killed like an asshole without being able to do anything because apparently transform smart characters and making them idiots with a dumb death is a big plot twist.
Dukat, the main villain of the series, a selfish bastard who always used his power in the worst way, killed innocents and oppressed an entire species, someone who spent his life making others suffer, will end having a peaceful and romantic death because it’s what the viewers want, you know? Seeing a monster who they always wanted to see suffer dying without suffering. Maybe dying being hitted in the head by few rocks? Poetic Cinema.
Also, if Bronn can be the Master of Coin after spending every single thing he got on brothels in all his life, I don’t see why Quark couldn’t be the Chief of Security after Odo is gone. After all, he just frauds everyone for profit. He is perfect for that role.
- Emilia Clarke commenting the last season “Best Season Ever” with the most sarcastic voice ever did by a human being
- Nikolaj Coster Waldau and Lena Headey getting paid for the last episode where they didn’t even appeared because of their suggestion (since it was them who proposed to use mannaquins for Jaime and Cersei’s bodies)
- Kit Harington answering with “Disappointing” when asked to describe the last season with a word
- Gwendoline Christie going to the Emmys in a dress with a lion eating a sapphire (House Lannister + House Tarth) regardeless of Jaime leaving Brienne for Cersei
- Nikolaj Coster Waldau getting nominated for Dumb and Dumber’s shitty episode, but then he changed his nomination to an episode written by someone else
- Actors who weren’t even in the show anymore because their characters died in the first seasons like Charles Dance and Jason Momoa clarified that they hated the last season
- Lena Headey saying she wanted a better death for Cersei
considering listening to her advisors and bending over backwards for people she shouldn’t have is what fucked her over in the end
this is some bullshit
trash
I…have no idea what they’re talking about.
She listened and listened and listened. The only person she ignored was Daario, who advised her to butcher all the masters. She listened to Tyrion despite a litany of bad advice. And….Varys was trying to poison her?
It’s like they weren’t watching the same show.
LMAO VARYS TRIED TO ASSASSINATE HER. TWICE.
Also, do the people who write this garbage know what being a leader is? It isn’t always abiding by your advisors. It’s taking your advisor’s opinions into consideration and then doing what you believe is right, regardless of whose idea it was. And that’s what Dany did. Did she ALWAYS choose the best option? No, because that’s impossible, unless you’re clairvoyant. (One could argue that Dany’s biggest strategic mistakes occured when she followed Tyrion’s advice over her own instincts tho). But to say that by not listening to an advisor Dany was “treating them like garbage” is a gross misrepresentation not just of Dany, but of the definition of leadership.
A critical analysis of Game of Thrones Season 5. Part 3 covers Trope #6: “Weaponized sexuality/nudity = empowerment” and Trope #7: “Badass women aren’t feminine.”
InPart 3 of this essay series, we covered how women with their “feminine skillz” are at a disadvantage in a man’s world, hence why they’re often damsels in distress and need of rescue. However, there exists one fun, sexist way that a woman can exert power with her womanliness: by being a seductress and using her body to manipulate men. You see, this is because women are viewed as sexual objects for men’s benefit, so their sexual autonomy is something that should be feared, especially given its capacity to control men. This is the assumption that feeds into the Madonna-Whore complex as well, a trope I shall be covering in a later section.
Because weaponizing her body is one of the only ways for a woman to gain control, nudity and overt displays of sexuality become her sources of empowerment. And this is something showrunners Benioff and Weiss (D&D) completely buy into, which was especially present in Season 5.
The most obvious example of this trope’s employ is with Tyene, in the now infamous bewb scene. Here, D&D had one of the Sand Snakes poison Bronn, then flash her boobs at him to apparently quicken his heart-rate (because it totally wasn’t elevated from the fight where he got injured), and then after he gave her a compliment, she tossed the antidote at him, rendering the scene completely pointless. This was supposedly an act of empowerment on the part of Tyene: fishing for flattery and using her exposed breasts as a weapon to torture an enemy. Because according to D&D, “badass women” require validation from men about their physical appearance, even if it’s only given by a man facing death.
