GoT and SW were ruined by different things.
I disagree.
Diversity and gender politics can ruin a movie/series in two different ways:
(1) Movies are used to enjoy some spare time, to have a break. However, you must keep being watchful about underlying content, since you're watching some piece that it's trying to indoctrinate you. That harms the enjoyment.
(2) Writers that prioritize political/religious indoctrination pay less attention to the story. Characters become puppets that serve a purpose. And the story itself becomes secondary.
The most common consequence is how easy the suspension of disbelief AKA the immersion gets broken. This can be noticed both in Christian and Diversitarian movies and series.
Both ways are present, though one of them could easier to spot. In the Diversitarian movie The Last Jedi, both elements were clearly noticeable. In the last two seasons of GoT, the ones that went under full control of D&D (who are Diversitarian), the second element is far clearer, but that doesn't mean it's the only one. Both are present.
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papamihel (1574)
5 years ago
You might be right but I think it's the other way around. We only notice all this stuff when writing is poor.
There's nothing wrong with social relevance per se - after all this is one of the things the art is for: examining and re-examining issues that are important to us. But it only works when art is good.
I am not the biggest fan of Martin's but he is a solid craftsman and can create good characters. So the source material made sure that "strong female characters" (TM) were important to the story not because they were women but because they were complex, interesting and engaging. Same goes for "racial casting". Unlike the upcoming Witcher series in GoT it was always consistent with the logic of the fictional universe.
But once they got past the books the quality of the material had changed. Some of it might have been an executive decision: you know, to get ready to wrap it up, so they simplified storytelling drastically and basically killed one of the most important aspects of the show\books. And in general... I mean, I wouldn't have noticed that most of the political figures in season 6 were female if I wasn't losing interest in the whole thing.
Same goes for Star Wars. Why would I care for space Asians or socialite starfleet admirals if The Last Jedi wasn't so incredibly, mind-killingly boring?
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