> Your new leader knows all, see all and is smarter than you > Scheming, sacrificing people like pawns, letting a tyrant genocide a whole city before stopping her is A-OK to make sure you'll get into power > The best leaders are supernatural, muh divine rights, etc... > Pretends to be servants of the people, end up doing fucking nothing (looking for Drogon ? Really ?) while giving the real power to the same old noble houses. > No heir, will end up create civil wars after his death. It's the generation of the now, me me, fuck the children.
>I'm mad >Mad about a TV show epic duder, now get mad about the fact that the sky is blue and water exists.
Noah Lewis
>"Stories" are actually meant to be "Propaganda" Yes, that was my interpretation too.
Kayden Bennett
Well, Macbeth it's a quite good propaganda piece. So is Richard the III and every non-comedic Shakespeare work ever.
Michael White
>ALL HAIL THE ROLLING THRONE ALL HAIL THE ROLLING THRONE >ALL HAIL THE ROLLING THRONE ALL HAIL THE ROLLING THRONE >ALL HAIL THE ROLLING THRONE ALL HAIL THE ROLLING THRONE >ALL HAIL THE ROLLING THRONE ALL HAIL THE ROLLING THRONE
Jason Jackson
don't forget Antigone
Luke Allen
So, just like the gifted technocrats "managing" things now.
The dumbest part of Game of Thrones is how it traded its realistic scheming and power dynamics for a retarded, generic, liberal democracy wankfest. Sure they won't go direct democracy, but we're left with a hopeful message of baby steps towards it.
When the actual problem plaguing the Seven Kingdoms wasn't hereditary monarchy but a weak and ineffectual monarchy. More government, not less, is the solution to its problems.
It's a writer vs hacks scenario. As soon as they ran out of material to copy, quality went down fast. Hit rock bottom with the final season.
Thomas Flores
There were 19 years of peace under Robert and Tywin. The entire problem was Varrys deciding that was not good enough.
Carter King
>The entire problem was Varrys Littlefinger started all this. Varrys scheme was a vague long term bet and he was actually willing to get rid of it
Thomas Taylor
he could have told theon to run away and live but instead let him run off to die
John Wood
There is nothing wrong with any of this.
All his heirs will simply accept the 3ER mind into their bodies and live with the immortal god-emperor as an eternal fixture of the kingdom. He might even let the other kingdoms become 'independent' just to give them a sense of freedom until he needs them for something.