I don't watch Game of Thrones. The one time I tried reading GRRM I found it tedious. But it is a huge part of pop culture and it takes a strong sense of ethics to take this step.
http://www.themarysue.com/we-will-no-longer-be-promoting-hbos-game-of-thrones/
Cab't say I really disagree; GoT (in my view, anyway) resorted to torture porn way too often. I watched til Geoffrey got his and called it a day after that.
ReplyDeleteGoT is falling down my watchlist. It's gone from a show I watch as soon as it's on to one we catch up with later in the week. The next step after that is "whenever."
ReplyDeleteI don't know how much the torture and rape porn have to do with it.
Nope. Not a fan either for many of the reasons mentioned in the piece.
ReplyDeleteThe more they diverge from the original story, the more dissatisfied people get, even when they haven't read the books. GRRM's writing is the foundation of the series, and apparently the show's writers are filling it with substandard material.
ReplyDeleteI felt this way in season one. After the season two premier, I'd had it. The show has gotten away with pretending to be high minded for too long.
ReplyDeleteNever watched it ... from the descriptions ... sounds like I'm not missing much.
ReplyDeleteGreat show when it sticks to material that was previously written. When they decide to use their own story lines it's usually pretty horrible.
ReplyDeleteFine. But if you ever touch penny deadful or supernatural your dead.
ReplyDeleteWell I didn't read ur stuff anyway. The only reason ur on my feed is because u mentioned GoT.
ReplyDeleteYou'd have to believe that Game of Thrones was exploitive and lacked ethics. It is ethical in spades. A very humanistic work.
ReplyDeleteAs much as GoT is a fictional story, I feel it depicts very well the ancient times of earth. No, not dragons and fantastical creatures (that is reserved for myths such as the bible), but the cruel ways in which people treated each other. Compared to the history of humans the story of GoT is modest in its violence and cruelty. I feel that the show serves as a wonderful metaphor of the inhumanity of mankind in the past and shows how far we have come as a species. Yes, I agree that it is gritty, but it is honest about the nature of man. For that I praise it.
ReplyDeleteWhen you kill good character good or bad the show starts to go down hill. I don't know if it going to make it to season 6.
ReplyDeleteIv read the books and I watch the show ... It was never about the sex and violence, that's just part of life. Its a realistic story and the fact that good guys don't win all the time that I like about the show.
ReplyDeleteI don't like the Kardashian's TV show, but I don't bitch about it, I just don't watch it.
Just to be clear, I'm not commenting on GoT, I'm commenting on the Mary Sue decision.
ReplyDeleteJonathan Tardieu Yes, I also appreciate the realness of the plot, in that the antagonists and protagonists both suffer losses.
ReplyDeleteDusitn Morrison The show is inspired by the War of the Roses.
ReplyDeleteThe Mary Sue decision is snobbery at its finest. Pathetic at best... Grrm is a screenwriter, his books are not well written but his story is great. The screenwriters working in GoT are making it much better than the books were. Thank you to HBO for a fantastic production of a very visceral tv show.
ReplyDeleteBrendan McNerney Martin is a book writer. He's written quite a bit more than GoT, much of it critically acclaimed. Any screenwriting he does is on his own established work.
ReplyDeleteCoyoty Wright That is interesting. That gives me inspiration for reading material. :) I often feel like the inspiration for the the Valyrians is based ancient Egypt. Egyptians also kept royalty in the same bloodline (incest) and they were also technologically advanced for their time.
ReplyDeleteCoyoty Wright ok but his GoT series reads like a screenplay to me and I didn't think anything of his writing but that it wasn't very good. His story is fab but writing? Not so much.
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ReplyDeleteUsing a woman's rape as a catalyst for someone guys' story is lazy story telling (which GRRM apparently doesn't do). The last time the show writers did this they had a big faux ethical conundrum. I guess the writers figured it out their stance and The Mary Sue has taken theirs.
ReplyDeleteSince people REALLY DON'T GET that I'm surprised The Mary Sue which covers geek culture, is boycotting such a prominent show, I'm closing this thread. I will also say that GRRM may not be my taste but from what I read he is a good writer.
ReplyDeleteI am NOT surprised by the use of a woman's rape as a tool for a man's development.