Game of Thrones & GOT Spinoffs

That battle was on some serious epic shit. John Snow, bitches. What!?!?

 

Seriously I wonder how much that shit cost
Best episode of series.

 

OMG, wasn't this one of the best episodes in a long time?!

 

I couldn't agree more, lol. I was cheering when Joffrey bought the farm.

Question for those who have read the book? Are the resurrected dead considered White Walkers? Or just members of their army? It didn't look like they had the same invulnerability to mortal weapons other than dragonglass and Valyrian steel.

 

No the resurrected dead are known as wights any dead person or animal touched by the cold wind accompanying the white walkers can be turned. They are attracted to warm blood and are super strong, being dead they feel no pain have no fear, even when a body part is hacked off the body part will still attack, Dragonglass cant stop them according to the lore only fire, luckily they are highly flammable. The way you can tell a wight is dead is when the blue disappears from their eyes.

 

Ah...my childhood days of Dungeons & Dragons have a use after all, or else I wouldn't know what you were talking about, lol. Thanks for the info!

 

You know you still play D&D... :smt043

 

I read the woman that was mauled by a lion in South Africa worked on the show as a special effects editor. Her name was Katherine Chappell.

 

Yes, and what she was doing with the window down on safari despite numerous signs saying not to do so is beyond me.

Don't make me get my Player's Handbook out of storage!

 

This is awesome:

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Hilariousness:

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I swear these shows make rulers look like total scumbags

Why would anyone want a monarchy

 

It's because humans have a pathological need for structure, we need orders and plans....

 

Well I'll be damned

 

Elected rulers aren't far behind.

 

I welcome our robot overlords humans just can't and will never be able to get it done. We need parents.

 

Let's hope that evolution keeps improving the species.

 

George R.R. Martin On Why There's Violence Against Women On GAME OF THRONES



Portions of an Entertainment Weekly interview.


Over the course of 5 seasons there have been several instances of sexual violence that stirred up controversy, and the most recent - the rape of Sansa stark by Ramsay Bolton - prompted many fans to claim they were "done" with the show altogether. One of the main issues stemmed from this being yet another example of the showrunners adding a rape scene that didn't occur in the books (at least, not to that particular character), and given what Sansa had already been through prior to that it just proved too much for some to take.

Of course, it's fiction - but as George R.R. Martin explains below, it is also supposed to be an accurate depiction of life in the Middle Ages... just with, y'know, dragons and stuff.

“The books reflect a patriarchal society based on the Middle Ages. The Middle Ages were not a time of sexual egalitarianism. It was very classist, dividing people into three classes. And they had strong ideas about the roles of women. One of the charges against Joan of Arc that got her burned at the stake was that she wore men’s clothing—that was not a small thing. There were, of course, some strong and competent women. It still doesn’t change the nature of the society. And if you look at the books, my heroes and viewpoint characters are all misfits. They’re outliers. They don’t fit the roles society has for them. They’re ‘cripples, bastards, and broken things‘—a dwarf, a fat guy who can’t fight, a bastard, and women who don’t fit comfortably into the roles society has for them (though there are also those who do—like Sansa and Catelyn).

“Now there are people who will say to that, ‘Well, he’s not writing history, he’s writing fantasy—he put in dragons, he should have made an egalitarian society.’ Just because you put in dragons doesn’t mean you can put in anything you want. If pigs could fly, then that’s your book. But that doesn’t mean you also want people walking on their hands instead of their feet. If you’re going to do (a fantasy element), it’s best to only do one of them, or a few. I wanted my books to be strongly grounded in history and to show what medieval society was like, and I was also reacting to a lot of fantasy fiction. Most stories depict what I call the ‘Disneyland Middle Ages’—there are princes and princesses and knights in shining armor, but they didn’t want to show what those societies meant and how they functioned.

“I have millions of women readers who love the books, who come up to me and tell me they love the female characters. Some love Arya, some love Dany, some love Sansa, some love Brienne, some love Cersei—there’s thousands of women who love Cersei despite her obvious flaws. It’s a complicated argument. To be non-sexist, does that mean you need to portray an egalitarian society? That’s not in our history; it’s something for science fiction. And 21st century America isn’t egalitarian, either. There are still barriers against women. It’s better than what it was. It’s not Mad Men any more, which was in my lifetime.

“And then there’s the whole issue of sexual violence, which I’ve been criticized for as well. I’m writing about war, which what almost all epic fantasy is about. But if you’re going to write about war, and you just want to include all the cool battles and heroes killing a lot of orcs and things like that and you don’t portray (sexual violence), then there’s something fundamentally dishonest about that. Rape, unfortunately, is still a part of war today. It’s not a strong testament to the human race, but I don’t think we should pretend it doesn’t exist.

“I want to portray struggle. Drama comes out of conflict. If you portray a utopia, then you probably wrote a pretty boring book.”

 

Interesting....give this guy a medal for standing his ground against that dreaded vocal minority