Does anyone else remember last season when Dany was totally opposed to anything that could hurt even a single person in King's Landing and would do everything in her power to not just swoop in and murder death kill Cersei because it might hurt innocents? And how that was used as an excuse for her pointlessly dividing her forces so that Euron Sparrow could kill them of piecemeal?
Come this episode her previous reasoning is forgotten and she's suddenly ready to become genocidal and kill everyone to get her birthright. All so that there can be some drama about whether she's fit to rule or not. There's no seeding here, from one season to the next she goes from "breaker of the wheel and killer of tyrants" to "MY IRON THRONE! CERSEI IS A MEANIE AND I HATE HER!".
What infuriates me the most though is that this episode had not one, but two separate scenes where we are reminded that Sansa grew and became a capable woman because Ramsay raped her. The tone deafness of repeatedly saying that Sansa was formed by men abusing her is extreme and shows that, try as they might to pose as feminists, the show runners still buys into the old dichotomy that men do while women are done to. Because heaven forbid that Sansa had the agency to actually learn on her own.
Hawki said:
bartholen said:
Fuck Benioff and Weiss. I hope they never get to write anything ever again.
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Untitled_Star_Wars_film_series
D&D are terrible at writing details first drama, but their flair for "unexpected" and "cool" could actually lend them really well to a Star Wars script. Star Wars is less about nuanced characters playing their motivations and desire off of each other and more about epic conflicts between black and white, so D&D are a natural fit.
I am much, much more worried about Confederate. A show about alternate history where the Confederate States of America fought to a stalemate and the US in modern time is split into two? With a lot of focus on slavery as a modern institution? Penned by D&D? Themes like slavery are not something you should ever entrust to the men who think Rape is Drama, that castration is funny and that dropping the words cock and **** into every scene is a sign of maturity.
