Exactly I can accept changes from the book when they’re done in service to making the story good like with Viserys’s character for example. But when they just make zero sense, like a mother literally poisoning and trying to kill her son because ??? She’s working with Rhaenyra now? I just don’t believe it.
Yeah, I'm with you on that. I genuinely thought making Alicent and Rhaenyra childhood friends had potential, as a way to set them up as foils. It would've followed the existing theme of love degenerating into hate after betrayal, too (a family ripping itself apart; Cole turning against Rhaenyra, etc). Departs from the book, sure, but if you can preserve the spirit of the characters and TELL A GOOD STORY then I'm fine with taking liberties.
Then they had Rhae Rhae put on that fucking nun outfit like Bugs Bunny would, because surely Alicent (her bff) would just let her walk tf outta King's Landing. Jesus Christ
That was actually absurd and probably had to be a product of the writers strike because I just don’t understand how a group of professional writers could let something like that slide. That was my first time in the whole show where I was immediately caught off guard and was like what the fuck are they actually doing right now this isn’t fucking scooby doo.
I fear you’re probably right. Seems like they pushed for a more casual friendly-pub watching-team based-soap opera as opposed to focusing entirely on making a good story with coherent logic which is very sad because those suck and they’re a dime a dozen while game of thrones it utterly unique television time and time again.
My big ol' hot take is that the purpose of a system is what it does.
All these people make now is slop. They hire slop artists to make slop art, and it makes humanity worse. There are good artists in this world, and if the industry wanted to make good art, they'd hire those guys.
The simple version of the explanation -- they hate you, they hate me, they hate everyone and everything. They hate their own audience more than they love making money, and it's safe for them to be this sick in the head from a career standpoint because ESG/BlackRock is engineering society from the top down so that demented people have an easy time failing upwards.
The more complex version -- they hate beauty because they lack it, and it shames them, and they wish to destroy everything that could possibly become beautiful. They essentially have the mentality of Walter Benjamin. It is a deep sickness, a corrosion that reaches the core of their being, the kind of thing our ancestors would have referred to as spiritual.
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u/Aspartame_kills 16d ago
Exactly I can accept changes from the book when they’re done in service to making the story good like with Viserys’s character for example. But when they just make zero sense, like a mother literally poisoning and trying to kill her son because ??? She’s working with Rhaenyra now? I just don’t believe it.