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shareHistory of our world has had its share of ambitious royal women and so does the fictional history of the world of Westeros.
Besides, the main character is more frustrated that her father doesn't value her rather than about being barred from ruling.
There's been nothing "woke" in the show so far.
I mean, the showrunners went out of their way to mention they made sure to include black Valyrians in it because they didn't want, and I quote, "another bunch of white people on the screen."
So yeah, I guess that just goes without saying.
Well, back in the USSR one had to invoke Marx or Lenin in just about any creative work to have it accepted.
It's not impossible that the US culture is at the stage when content creators feel they need to tick a box or two otherwise the critics will hate it and the web activists will throw tantrums.
The pilot wasn't "woke". Let's see how the story develops.
I think the simple fact of your analogy seeming on point speaks of something profoundly, disturbingly wrong with the current cultural landscape in the US.
As far as the story goes... meh, as I said elsewhere, I'm honestly past caring. I was invested in a story called A Song of Ice and Fire, until GoT season 8 happened and Martin made it all but explicit he'd rather keep raking in all that sweet TV money than actually finishing said story.
I don't care, and never have, about sourcebooks of irrelevant backstory that, as far as I'm concerned, he's just wasting his and everybody else's time on so he doesn't have to actually write The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring.
Oh, I gave up on him years ago.
share"The pilot wasn't "woke". "
lol, casting the black buy with the blonde braids wasn't woke?
lmao
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Well you may have a point there... A black guy with blonde hair playing a member of that dragon, bleach-white family? Come on guys...
shareI'm against woke shit but there was barely anything here, nothing that made me roll my eyes or disconnect from the story. Random black Valyrian guy did not bother me in the slightest, as long as they don't start drawing attention to his skin color and making it a plot point.
shareWhich, if their world is a deeply racist as America, would be valid.
Just because a c*nt like the vile John Marion Morrison Wayne is dead (happily), whiny little p*ssies think everything is ''woke''. It isn't, just not like them.
The guy has more presence than all the other councilors but one.
shareIndeed. I just wish he would had been introduced as a different character, not one from an albino family.
shareIt's hard to judge from a single episode, but I have a suspicion they ticked a couple of boxes just to get the crazies off their back.
I mean, this is where we are now...
yeah, i agree. unfortunately it's severely affecting my suspension of disbelief, because it's wholly incongruent with the world dynamics they showed me in the first series.
and it's patronizing we, the viewers.
smh
did you roll your eyes yet now that there's slut shaming and forced abortions in this story too? it's going full woke.
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