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As I went to sleep last night I felt more and more impressed by the spectacle, which is how genre communicates emotion, and disappointed in myself for caring at all about smart-mark bullshit like wishing more characters I enjoy watching had died, which in itself means nothing.
"It was sometimes too dark" is some real Christmas Vacation "The little lights are not twinkling"-wave shit
"So-called 'plot armor' is just another way of saying 'these are the characters the writers are telling a story about.' It’s a valid choice creators have been making since Homer’s heroes attacked Troy. (You wanna talk about plot armor? Read the Odyssey.)" rollingstone.com/tv/tv-recaps/g…
Why does it matter. Like seriously, why does that matter. I'm at a loss. Frodo, Sam, Merry, Pippin, Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas, Éowyn, Éomer, Faramir, Treebeard, Arwen, Elrond, Galadriel, and Bilbo all survived The Lord of the Rings. Gandalf came back from the dead. Is that bad
Ned, the Red Wedding, the Red Viper, I know. But eventually the show was going to decide what the plot actually *is*, and after that, the plot requires protection. Like, Under the Skin wouldn't work if some Scotsman ran over Scarlett Johansson with a van at the 40-minute mark
If you've read me on Game of Thrones at all you know I think "humanity kills itself as existential threat to humanity looms" is the central metaphor. That's what I'm struggling with now, not TV Tropes fun treated like a rulebook or complaining I couldn't see like Grandpa Simpson.
I enjoy crying really hard over art so I might have liked to see more beloved characters die in that respect, but that has nothing to do with living up to some goofball internet concept.
I read the books a year or two before the show debuted. A well-meaning friend accidentally spoiled Ned, but Bran going out the window floored me, and the Red Wedding upset me so viscerally I re-read it bc I was *convinced* I'd misunderstood. I literally couldn't sleep afterwards.
Those moments made me fall in love with those books because they were moving, not because they were badass. Otherwise we're just back in the territory of "Who got whacked???" Sopranos fandom from 20 years ago.
