A Song of POTUS And Game of Thrones: US Presidents Placed in the Great Houses of Westeros
Game of Thrones and the presidents of the United States are different in so many ways, but they’re connected by the desire for power.
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Game of Thrones: The Subversiveness of Liking Sansa Stark
April 17 being the 10th anniversary of Game of Thrones, I’ll seize this opportunity to write about my favorite character ever, Sansa Stark.
Game of Thrones: GRRM, Fan Fiction, and the Pearls of Irritated Oysters
In my eyes, Game of Thrones & George RR Martin have done but one unforgivable thing, and that unforgivable thing is dissing fan fiction
Game of Thrones: Everyone in Westeros is Gonna Die
The Night King may be gone, the war may be over, but the forces of death have only just begun to stalk Westeros.
Game of Thrones: Ready, Willing, and Ableism
The eyeroller disdainfully says “Game of Thrones is just show!” But problematic beliefs like ableism are like belly buttons, we all got em.
Game of Thrones: The Awesomization of Sam Tarly
Samwell Tarly is an intelligent, kind, but cowardly and physically inept young man…until his TV Game of Thrones awesomization
Game of Thrones: Bad Romance
Game of Thrones has lots of coitus and very little of what leads into it, except when it’s rapey, in which case we see it in exacting detail
Game of Thrones Rewatch: Redemption Song
I decided to look at the concept of fictional redemption arcs in Game of Thrones. In the GoT TV show, there are three main redemptive arcs.
Arya Sue: Is Game of Thrones’ Youngest Stark a Mary Sue?
I agree, book Arya is not a Mary Sue (yet). But Game Of Thrones Show Arya? That is not such an easy call for me to make.
Game of Thrones: Little People, Big World
Quit ignoring The Scope Problem or we’ll end up with more Game of Thrones that start off amazing and end with a disappointed “meh”.
Game of Thrones: Murder Your Darlings
George RR Martin kills off his characters right. Those deaths mattered. The TV version of Game of Thrones? Not so much…
Game of Thrones: The Cool is Not Enough
There were several fascinating arcs of both plot and character the writers of Game of Thrones sacrificed at the altar of The Rule of Cool.
Winter is Here
Game of Thrones IS the quintessential program for 2020. No toilet paper at all. Only the burning rage of a million irritated a-holes
Tenshot: I, Claudius
I, Claudius has everything Game of Thrones had. Granted, there’s a few more British actors and not quite as many dragons. But it all happened in real life.
A Song of Tolling Bells and War Crimes
So Your Favorite Character Is A Nuremburg Defendant: Game of Thrones Season 8 and Command Responsibility
So, Can We Talk About This?
A FAQ about that last episode. Totally rot13’d. For the post is dark, and full of spoilers.
Game of Thrones: Nasty, Brutish, and Short
I can tell you what Game of Thrones is good at but not why we seem to like it so much.
Linky Friday #57
Burt Likko fills in for Will Truman for this week’s aggregation of dozens of links to themed web randomness!
