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Guide to Kulchur, Episode 20
Game of Thrones Seen from the Right
The Firebombing of Dresden
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In the latest Guide to Kulchur, Fróði Midjord and John Morgan discuss the current, penultimate episode of Game of Thrones (the fifth episode of the eighth season), which saw the resolution of many of the plotlines that have been developing from the beginning of the series — as well as new questions. (Spoilers ahead!) They talk about the epic final showdown between Daenerys and her multicultural army on the one side and Cersei on the other, the deaths of many of the show’s long-running characters, and Daenerys’ transformation say about how the problem of who will be the monarch will be resolved in the series finale next week. The episode is available on both YouTube and Spreaker (see below).
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George rr Martin said we are not gonna like the ending. I bet everybody’s gonna die, like in hamlet.
Maybe someone invents a firearm distributes them to a legion and brings this world into the gunpowder age and Republics.
It maybe just me, but I cannot shake the feeling of disconnect.
For example: why was the dragon not killed? was it incompetence? no it was in the script!
This is a general thing in movie discussions, while it is fine to see draw parallels with real world events, or real world motivation, I find it creepy when the story itself is regarded as something that “really” happened. Motivations are absent in the movie itself, but they are present in the script writers!
For a decade Daenerys has been a sort of chick lit power fantasy. The number of sjw who worship the character…countless. Well, now? She’s a genocidal maniac with wmd. Perfect.
Oddly enough I thought that the scene was Berlin and suddenly all the trivial sins of Cercei were put into perspective. Daenerys jaunt through the world rustling up a mystery meat army was used to annihilate a well run civilization. The death of Cercei and and Jamie not unlike Hitler and Eva in the Bunker. The Dragon was a Lancaster or a B17.
The look on Snow’s face. “wait does this mean we are baddies?”
Oddly subversive.
Yeah, every German City was a military target. And yes, of course one had to bomb all houses of civilians as well. And of course one had to make sure with sadistic perfection that a firestorm was created. What an asshole you are!
Seems like Varis is a populist who did nothing wrong. His only crime was letting a warlock chop his dong off.
As for Daenerys, I find it very interesting that the Jew directors took this white female social justice warrior archetype and turned her into a genocidal menace. Not sure what they are trying to do here, especially since they are always trying to DO something. Are they simply trying to mock the dumb shiksa who pushes their agenda but is not one of them? Without meaning to, they are showing what happens when you let women in power through both Cersei and Daenerys. You get self-serving, emotion-driven mayhem where countless innocents suffer to feed an ego.
How Jewish does GRR Martin feel?
Cause he obviously intended to have Daenerys scorch and holocaust King’s Lahndin right from the start. The writers on the show per se are there to write dialog and music en scene. They are not there to determine the fate of characters or their decisive roles.
What’s Martin’s point?
He agrees with what Daenerys did obviously. The capital had to burn down along with the inhabitants. Whitey had to be exterminated.
In the behind the scenes youtube video, the showrunners admit to using Dresden as inspiration. Wew lads.
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