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Game Of Thrones

Posted by j_IR1776wg 10 years, 7 months ago to Entertainment
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I don't own a TV but I came across an article on CNN about this HBO show called Game Of Thrones. The plot sounds like a Progressive dream. What caught my eye was that a central character is named "Daenerys Targaryen, the young sole survivor of a royal family". I'm just curious if any of you have seen it and if this connection to Atlas Shrugged is coincidental? .
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  • Posted by lrbeggs 10 years, 7 months ago
    I, too, find references to AS and its characters in various other readings. I read Henry James "Portrait of a Lady" a few months ago and found many of Dagny's attributes in the young lady, however she is broken by the end and she capitulates and succombs to societal pressures. Wondered if it were just me that sees these references.
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  • Posted by Solver 10 years, 7 months ago
    One common theme is apparent in these people who desire to rule on their iron throne. That theme is, “Might makes right,” even if is is very wrong.
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    • Posted by j_IR1776wg 10 years, 7 months ago
      Most of the governmental forms I've studied seem to be based on might makes right. America was the only one deliberately created to reverse that into rights make might.
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  • Posted by $ Mimi 10 years, 7 months ago
    I will say this --the writer of the article has a very active imagination! To take what is happening in Games of Thrones and apply it to every liberal sell-point is beyond creative. I hope the director as well as the writer of the books don’t get lead astray from the plot’s-path with this type of diatribe because it would be painfully destructive to the storytelling.
    Game of Thrones is mirrored in the War of the Roses. It is not the writer of the books contention for his work to reflect current events.
    I read an article of his recently and as far as the only message that he seems to want to put out there is that man is a complex being that is never truly good or evil. He uses President Woodrow Wilson as an example: Wilson, a man of peace, wanted to form the League of Nations and rid the world of wars and yet, at the same time, Wilson was a horrible racist who promoted the KKK. So which is he? Villain or saint? He is neither, and yet he is both. That is a point the author waned to get across.
    For me personally, I like Daenery’s character, but I am more interested in what happens to Ariel Stark or John Snow. In the books, there is a cast-of-thousands and Martin has a tendency to kill off popular characters without remorse. The show has been helpful in absorbing the size and scope of the seven kingdoms and give face to the minor characters that are hard to keep up with because there are so many and they die so quickly.
    Nope, relax, no progressive monsters lurking here.
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  • Posted by Solver 10 years, 6 months ago
    This is one of my favorite TV series. Just started on the books. I found one of my favorite quotes,

    “Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?”

    Fantasy or reality?
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    • Posted by j_IR1776wg 10 years, 6 months ago
      The Elites are trained to see life as a chess board. They are the Kings and Queens, the rooks, bishops, and knights are their cronies and the rest of us are their pawns to be moved about and sacrificed according to their whims.
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  • Posted by Maphesdus 10 years, 7 months ago
    Game of Thrones is a medieval fantasy about different family houses competing with each other for who will rule the kingdom. Some of the characters try to gain control of the throne by open combat and war, while others try to usurp the throne through political maneuvering and scheming. In other words, it's essentially just a depiction of what happens in a monarchy. It has nothing to do with Progressivism.

    As for any connection to Atlas Shrugged, I don't see one. Daenerys Targaryen is one of my favorite characters, though. She starts out as an almost pathetic little girl – weak, passive, and submissive – but over the course of the first season she slowly gains confidence in herself and her abilities, and by the conclusion of the last episode of season one, she has gone through a complete spiritual awakening and metaphorical rebirth. No longer the fragile little princess of a disgraced king, she becomes Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, Queen of the Andals and the First Men, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, Breaker of Chains, and Mother of Dragons. It's really quite incredible.

    "You have a good claim: a title, a birthright. But you have something more than that: you may cover it up and deny it, but you have a gentle heart. You would be not only respected and feared, you would be loved. Someone who can rule and should rule. Centuries come and go without a person like that coming into the world. There are times that I look at you, and I still can't believe you're real."
    ― Ser Jorah Mormont to Daenerys Targaryen

    So yeah, it's a pretty awesome show. If you've found this article interesting, you should definitely watch it.
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    • Posted by $ Mimi 10 years, 7 months ago
      Have you read the books? As long as the show stays true to the books, I’ll watch. This is HBO, though. They ruined TruBlood after the first couple of seasons by wandering too far from the original story line in the books.
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      • Posted by Maphesdus 10 years, 7 months ago
        They change a few things here and there, but for the most part they have stayed pretty true to the books, at least so far. Mostly they just cut content for the sake of fitting within the time constraints inherent in a television series, just like all book-to-screen adaptations do.
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        • Posted by $ Mimi 10 years, 7 months ago
          I don’t think they have changed that much. It’s more like they added a little here and there--maybe a character or two and lost the delving into the more drawn out history and geographical description. It’s great to see the books visually. It was hard to keep up with so many characters. I fear that HBO will ruin it before the end. They have a tendency to go political with everything. Does anybody really buy they put President Bush’s head on a spike by chance at the end of the first season?
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