Sometimes the fandom is very predictable
Apparently, Dany/Drogo is a huge ship in the Game of Thrones show fandom.
Huh? Huh???? On one level I can understand it - both Jason Momoa and Emilia Clarke are gorgeous, have chemistry and finding canon ships is kinda thin on the ground in GoT - so I can see latching onto a canon ship with chemistry and hot people. A lot of stuff is even something I'd normally go for (height difference, rough guy/sheltered girl, tragedy) BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT.
BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT.
She was sold to him by her scummy brother and he raped her on their wedding night in a particularly brutal fashion (not that any rape is good, but that was particularly gross - just because she didn't shove him off didn't make it any less rape. WTF with the dragging a sheltered young woman to a freaking wilderness, lifting up her clothes and taking her from behind without any preliminaries or talking. Ugh. That was the most disturbing scene in the first ep). Ummmm. How on earth can one just overlook it and go into shipper territory? I am a lot more OK with questionable stuff in fictional romantic pairings than many of my flisties but this is a whole other level of insanity. WTF?????? I do not get. I thought that stuff went out with 1980s romance novels. Guess not.
To make clear, I have no problem with Dany developing feelings for the guy - she is stuck in that life and with the morals of that world, and might as well make the best of it. But we are not Dany. So WTF????
The shippers do make pretty vids.
Yeah, v.v. shippable. Except for the RAPE!!!!
Anyway, am about halfway through the first season. The show continues not to be my thing, to be honest - I don't care for any of the characters, nor do I find them particularly interesting. Plus, I read wiki spoilers and what a nasty nasty world did GRRM create. I've read things that were pretty grim (nonfiction about Rwandan genocide or Warsaw ghetto uprising, etc etc) so I am no wuss but to have that sort of unrelenting misery for everyone forever in a fictional world seems to make no sense especially since it's no as if GRRM has some deep message to convey (e.g. Zamyatin's "We" may be grim but it actually gives me things to think about). I am not sure I'll continue.
Huh? Huh???? On one level I can understand it - both Jason Momoa and Emilia Clarke are gorgeous, have chemistry and finding canon ships is kinda thin on the ground in GoT - so I can see latching onto a canon ship with chemistry and hot people. A lot of stuff is even something I'd normally go for (height difference, rough guy/sheltered girl, tragedy) BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT.
BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT.
She was sold to him by her scummy brother and he raped her on their wedding night in a particularly brutal fashion (not that any rape is good, but that was particularly gross - just because she didn't shove him off didn't make it any less rape. WTF with the dragging a sheltered young woman to a freaking wilderness, lifting up her clothes and taking her from behind without any preliminaries or talking. Ugh. That was the most disturbing scene in the first ep). Ummmm. How on earth can one just overlook it and go into shipper territory? I am a lot more OK with questionable stuff in fictional romantic pairings than many of my flisties but this is a whole other level of insanity. WTF?????? I do not get. I thought that stuff went out with 1980s romance novels. Guess not.
To make clear, I have no problem with Dany developing feelings for the guy - she is stuck in that life and with the morals of that world, and might as well make the best of it. But we are not Dany. So WTF????
The shippers do make pretty vids.
Click to viewYeah, v.v. shippable. Except for the RAPE!!!!
Anyway, am about halfway through the first season. The show continues not to be my thing, to be honest - I don't care for any of the characters, nor do I find them particularly interesting. Plus, I read wiki spoilers and what a nasty nasty world did GRRM create. I've read things that were pretty grim (nonfiction about Rwandan genocide or Warsaw ghetto uprising, etc etc) so I am no wuss but to have that sort of unrelenting misery for everyone forever in a fictional world seems to make no sense especially since it's no as if GRRM has some deep message to convey (e.g. Zamyatin's "We" may be grim but it actually gives me things to think about). I am not sure I'll continue.