thread: 2011-06-19 : Previously on Game of Thrones
On 2011-06-20, Chris wrote:
A few years back, a noble PC in my BW tried to use his nobility to force democracy onto everyone in his land. Interesting themes occurred.
As far as GoT tropes and conventions, I mean that Martin sets up things that seem like they're going to go down a conventional fantasy path. But then they don't. I don't mean that he does something else, like subvert or defy a convention. I mean that he sets them up and then nothing happens with it.
Some shows play with this kind of stuff. Community makes its living by setting tropes, subverting them, breaking them, rearranging them etc. But GoT?
All the characters are these two-dimensional cartoons, which isn't terrible in and of itself, but they set up expectations that aren't subverted or broken, they're simply not fulfilled. It draaaaaa aa a a a a g g g g g s s s.
