thread: 2011-06-19 : Previously on Game of Thrones
On 2011-06-21, David Berg wrote:
I kinda like the Weight of Expectation issues in the GoT show. Everyone becomes a trope because of overwhelming pressure (culture, family, survival, brainwashing) to do exactly that. Tyrion should be a playwright or something, but the only reason he's alive is because of his noble privileges, which he only gets to keep if he acts the part of a noble as defined by his asshole dad.
By not running off to write plays, he's constantly making the big choice of "conform & survive" over "self-actualize and die". Which is refreshingly candid in one way and gratingly anticlimactic and defeatist in another.
Which is kinda the whole show, for me. I was loving it when I thought it was going somewhere, but now I'm no longer sure it is.
I do like intrigue plots and scarce-but-major magic, though, so they've probably got me for another season as long as the script/acting/shot quality remains.
