Game of Thrones
Hmmmmmm. Yet another unpopular fannish opinion from moi. None of the contained-herein opinions are meant as offense to anyone (of the many millions!) who loves this show. Carry on! Be well in your fannishness! I am happy for you. But just can't agree
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Dany is compelling in the tv series! Dany was the site of some of the worst misogyny in the books so I was pleased with some adjustments there. In that way I can appreciate the television decision making. However, Cersei's the opposite ... see it's amazing you describe her as having 'some backbone'. In the books, she really IS queen of everything!! At least she carries herself as if she is. And frankly it's far more powerful. She is unlikeable but I'm a fan of writers allowing their characters to BE unlikeable sometimes. Her power was really tangible in the books and it's so diluted here, I hate it :(.
Oh Jon ... well you have a sympathetic audience in me here. Because I hate the actor so much. And yes, the tv version REALLY emphasised the son-killing as the worst bit. In the books it's more subtle. We get Jon's internal perspective when he first finds out about the women, and he's uncomfortable from the very start. Then when he's there he observes it all at close hand and it's more like it all boils up in him to to the point where even though he *knows* they're supposed to turn a blind eye to it all, he can't, and the baby is just the tipping point. But here the tv series first of all wrote a clunky script around it and then handed it to that TERRIBLE actor, who couldn't convey shit, let alone subtleties of reaction. So it definitely skewed it more misogynisitcly than the original.
But I know how it is. People are passionate about what they love and it can be very challenging to have someone with a critical view of that character. I've shied away myself from posting about GoT for the same reason--I think my feelings could hit other people's nerves, and I probably wouldn't comment in someone else's journal post about it for that reason. But I just got to the point where I had to at least put my own feelings on record. :( Because it does get a LOT of adulation! And my own feelings are at odds...
It's always kind of a shock when something like that happens online, because in an ideal world we'd all be able to tolerate some criticism without taking it personally. But I know myself I'm sensitive around my very favourite characters, we're all human. Sometimes we don't know all the reasons why something is particularly special or important to someone--I try to remember that. Even when sometimes I'm all 'you like THEM???? SRSLY????!!!' ;p
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