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Post by Turtleneck 2016-06-29, 14:12

But despite a sixth season where the showrunners had to hold certain characters in stasis until their stories could start again, and in which the violence on the show made its periodic flirtation with the unwatchable, this is the year that “Game of Thrones” most fully realized its ambitions to explore what it means to survive rape, forced marriage and other aspects of patriarchy and slavery. From Sansa Stark’s (Sophie Turner) bloody victory in the Battle of the Bastards to Cersei Lannister’s (Lena Headey) bombing of the Great Sept of Baelor, women rose to power on “Game of Thrones,” but at a great and terrible cost that illustrated how little power individuals have over the systems that forge and deform them.

This year, ‘Game of Thrones’ finally fulfilled its dark feminist promise
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2016/06/29/this-year-game-of-thrones-finally-fulfilled-its-dark-feminist-promise/
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Post by Turtleneck 2016-06-29, 14:14

Game of Thrones is secretely about climate change
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Post by Other Teams Pursuing That 2016-06-29, 14:17

Stop trying to ruin the best show ever turtleneck. Murderer.
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Post by Turtleneck 2016-06-29, 14:21

Sorry if you have to think.
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Post by Other Teams Pursuing That 2016-06-29, 14:46

Turtleneck wrote:Sorry if you have to think.

It's not about thinking it's about having things not related to this political mud that has filled this miserable fucking country.
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Post by Turtleneck 2016-06-29, 15:13

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:
Turtleneck wrote:Sorry if you have to think.

It's not about thinking it's about having things not related to this political mud that has filled this miserable fucking country.

This isn't about electoral politics. It's about social issues identified in the books and show.

OTPT, name one thing not related to politics? Exactly. Politics is inherent to our existence and political decisions make the rules we live by. People who say they do not care about politics are either naive or dumb. Probably a mix of the two.
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Post by Turtleneck 2017-07-26, 10:45

WASHINGTON — Wicked siblings willing to do anything for power. Secret deals with sworn enemies. The shock of a dead body. A Wall. Foreign bawds, guns for hire, and snakes. Back-stabbing, betrayal and charges of treason. Little birds spying and tattling. A maniacal mad king and his court of scheming, self-absorbed princesses and princelings, swathed in the finest silk and the most brazen immorality, ruling with total disregard for the good of their people.

The night in Washington is dark and full of terrors. The Game of Trump has brought a pagan lawlessness never before seen in the capital.

So far in life, Donald Trump has survived and thrived on the same philosophy espoused by Littlefinger in “Game of Thrones”: “Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/15/opinion/sunday/game-of-trump.html
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Post by Turtleneck 2017-08-28, 13:41

What if Fox & Friends covered Game of Thrones?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/08/28/lion-and-friends-in-westeros/?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.2466dae6e551
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Post by tGreenWay 2017-08-28, 14:38

Someday, I expect I'll watch GoT, just not soon. Guess I'll bide my time with politics.
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Post by Turtleneck 2017-08-28, 14:41

tGreenWay wrote:Someday, I expect I'll watch GoT, just not soon. Guess I'll bide my time with politics.

Did you ever upgrade from a radio to a television? I only ask because you are crazy old.
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Post by Turtleneck 2017-08-28, 14:49

How Game of Thrones’ Arya and Sansa played the game of gender politics and won
https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/8/28/16199838/game-of-thrones-season-7-arya-sansa-littlefinger-finale
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Post by tGreenWay 2017-08-28, 15:51

Turtleneck wrote:
tGreenWay wrote:Someday, I expect I'll watch GoT, just not soon. Guess I'll bide my time with politics.

Did you ever upgrade from a radio to a television? I only ask because you are crazy old.

I couldn't find one with a hand crank start, so no.
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Post by Turtleneck 2017-08-28, 16:39

Sorry about calling you old. You are a Gen Xer for goodness sake. That is not old. It's not like you are a boomer. Boomers are so old. Many people say they are oldest...and the worst.
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Post by InTenSity 2017-08-30, 09:02

Turtleneck wrote:What if Fox & Friends covered Game of Thrones?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/08/28/lion-and-friends-in-westeros/?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.2466dae6e551
Fuck that site. blocks me from reading the article, tells me to unblock the site, I do so, but not before the fucking site blocks me from reading how to unblock sites from adblocker. Can you just copy and paste most of it?
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