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l but dramatically the show is oddballish bordering on bipolar game of thrones is quite literally two shows in one there is the mature adult drama which takes its witches wizards dragons monsters and knights seriously a show that has an actual story to tell and means to progress that story logically and sensibly through use of character development and exciting action in other words the story to be found in the books themselves the second game of thrones almost invisible in season one but obtruding more and more as the seasons progress is the show we see now this show is the one which appeals to what i imagine television executives think is their primary demographic flesh craving licentious drama addicts easily titillated by penile or vaginal endeavours shocked by guts and gore like a caveman seeing fire for the first time and one too stupid to keep track of more than five characters or plotlines at a time which isn t to say that it s easy to keep track of so many story arcs and people try reading the books but that brings me to another point if so much time wasn t spent on gratuitous and egregious insertions of patronising audience titillation i suspect there would be more than enough to show the numerous plotlines and characters memorably no unforgettably i m not surprised so many people who watch the show can t remember who s who and who is doing what why because most of the time they aren t doing anything we can afford ten minutes here and there to witness so much gay sex because sexual egalitarianism keeps the rowdy feminists quiet or embarrassing attempts to justify full frontal nudity but daenerys s prophetic dreams in the house of the undying noooo why drop hints or foreshadow the truth of jon snow s parentage when we can have petyr baelish expound his inner motivations and ambitions over lesbian soft core porn who is the knight of the laughing tree what about the kind of man rhaegar targaryen really was what did ned promise lyanna before she died who killed pate who is the third head of the dragon what are the as yet unrealised betrayals daenerys will experience what of quaithe s other thrilling prophecies who is the prince that was promised who is azor ahai the glass candles are burning don t tell me we don t have time for any of this when so much precious time is wasted by lewd bilge and the sex misses the point anyway to take one example in one of catelyn s earliest chapters we join the story as she and ned have finished love making in cat s head we hear her describe how her loins ache sorely but sweetly from ned s eager and rapid thrusts into her she can feel his seed still present and hopes it will give them another baby before they both get too old we discover that although their marriage wasn t born of love they did fall in love this is what a love scene should be about an intimate look into the private lives of our characters we learn something about them and if we can experience their sexuality vicariously as audience members so much the better this is the sort of love scene that could be shown respectfully and erotically on screen that would appeal to an understanding and adult audience but come from the story advance the story enliven the characters but no we are obviously too dumb to appreciate the emotional nuances of consensual caring copulation and besides how would we know the characters actually had sex unless we all but saw the act of penetration itself the only exception to this i can think of is robb s love scene with a forbidden young girl through which he violates a marriage oath and causes his own downfall this scene was handled well precisely because it encapsulated the passion of two young frustrated lovers i daresay we did feel something for these two characters as a result ironically this love story was substantially different from the books and that s just on the matter on how condescending and intellectually insulting the show s use of pornography is that aside the complete abandonment of crucial and exciting stories and character developments is completely baffling even when you know what s coming game of thrones can deliver emotion and impact when it tries but even more flabbergasting is waiting for a momentous and shocking reveal and it not coming because entire plot points have apparently been removed i won t spoil anything by elucidating this point but one might suggest only a heart of stone is required to neglect certain rather pivotal story elements as i alluded to earlier prophecy and portents are a huge aspect of the written story i know it is much harder to get away with the sort of foreshadowing on tv for example for the red wedding as was done in the books but the psychological and dramatic reaction of seeing the eventuality of so many clues pay off is a priceless joy it is one of the great pleasures in asoiaf it is rewarding and stupefying and leaves you kicking yourself when you finally realise that you should have realised it all along such is the art of great plot twists of great pay offs to long running arcs it was obvious all along in hindsight not only that the anticipation of unresolved mysteries and prophecies leads to so much fan speculation which in itself is an inestimable component of the fun most of this is absent from hbo s game of thrones don t kid yourself that so much time has been spent with so many characters they are doing their best to get through such a colossal adaptation that notion would have more substance if it weren t for the omission of so much good the inclusion of so much padding and in my opinion so much unnecessary deviation from source for just one example i have to ask why the incredibly minor characters of grey worm and missendei are shoe horned into a boring and distracting side plot don t the writers have enough material to be getting on with without making up plotlines of their own which cannot be anything other than irrelevancies in the grand scheme of things why should we care about this instead of confecting a flimsy pretext to see missendei naked which i am by no means opposed to under the right circumstances might there not be other things that time could be better spent on say for example the other fifty characters and their stories i find myself in the odd situation of seeing a show that is simultaneously dragging out affected scenes and inconsequential characters yet rushing through the source material and skipping the sight seeing i ve no doubt the destination of the asoiaf saga will be stupendous but the journey must be every bit enjoyable and jaw dropping the creators of got have all the time in the world why don t they use it i m not saying that game of thrones must stick religiously to its source material as someone who considers peter jackson s the lord of the rings not only great adaptations film masterpieces and significant improvements on the books i know that changing key story elements is not only necessary but actually desirable for the transition from script to screen what i cannot understand is how a story as complex clever interwoven interrelated intricate and delicate as a song of ice and fire can possibly be improved by the removal of so much of what made the books great i simply cannot see how mammoth changes to certain characters deaths and destinations which must necessitate the most unlikeliest contrivance of story telling or their complete abandonment make the story better or at the very least something remarkable and different and i think that is what makes me so angry and disappointed with game of thrones the fact that i do have expectations of it i wanted to see this wonderful and exciting story on screen but after a magnificent first few seasons that doesn t look like it s what i m going to get it would have been better to have read the books or watched the show but not both if it seems that one has failed the other i know which one i d point the finger at for all that i can pretend i m watching a stand alone tv show i can try to see game of thrones as exciting dramatic and addictive yes we want to tune in every week to see what happens next but when the shock and awe die down what will we really be left with is this a show that people will re watch time and again i m nowhere near as sure of that as i was after its first season i thought game of thrones would change the television landscape not just because of the story content but in its approach and style it has changed television it has so much of the world talking it could be the most famous tv show in the world right now it s almost certainly the most expensive but what price has it paid for such roaring success how much has it abandoned its understated clever and often patience testing literary sires in exchange for appealing to the masses in decades to come a song of ice and fire will still be read and loved by millions and perhaps it will have had as big an impact of written high fantasy as tolkien did so many years ago what will game of thrones s cultural impact be after so many years what will its legacy be a ground breaking drama renowned for its acting storytelling emotional realism and capturing the hearts and minds of a generation or that show that was like spartacus only with dragons when i first saw game of thrones i felt sure i knew what type of show it would be now i just don t know it s not even that game of thrones is bad it s not bad it s good it s very good but i don t think it s special and it could have been it should have been and the saddest irony or perhaps l have too much faith in my fellow primates is that i don t think the mainstream tv audience is as titillated with tits awed by asses bloodthirsty or cynical as studio executives think they are maybe tv consumers can appreciate good stories and can understand political intrigue prophecies and portent character struggle internal conflicts and huge armies of supernatural power without having them wrapped in the obligatory sexposition scene every episode seven hells maybe a show with dragons can be taken seriously for its own sake posted in uncategorized leave a comment why i will vote ukip 1 may 2015 evanescent i believe in immigration and gay marriage and i m voting ukip i believe in national sovereignty and individual responsibility and i m voting ukip i care about the economy the rich the poor and the helpless and i m voting ukip but when some people ask me why there is no little surprise in their tone personally i m astonished by their astonishment how can anyone who s experienced such a soulless sea of liars hypocrites cravens traitors and ultimately useless leaders we seem to have had forever not find this small dedicated party that genuinely believes in something and doesn t attempt to shy away from its beliefs the most refreshing event in politics for a generation well given the quite despicable and shamelessly biased coverage ukip has received by the mainstream establishment media i guess quite a few people are less than enamoured by the only libertarian and truly conservative party we ve seen in decades i wouldn t wish the mistruths and misinformation ignorance and ignominy disregard and disrespect that ukip has had to endure these past few years on anyone even my political enemies so much for the british predilection to route for the underdog even if you don t agree with ukip s policies and ideology you are compelled to concede that they are about more than playing the vote grabbing game and to call them simply populist is languorous and callow it is undeniable that they have forced extremely relevant and important matters into everyday political discussions who was talking about radical islam immigration foreign aid taxation the nhs and political correctness ten years ago no one topics for those too pusillanimous to raise or confront which do concern the people of britain are now being talked about by our leaders because ukip forced the issue for the second consecutive election and only the third since 1929 we will have a hung parliament next week can anyone claim this has nothing to do with ukip clearly they are doing something right and that is raising salient and sensitive topics trying to represent the people of britain and act in the best national self interest of our country in other words fulfilling their obligations as prospective politicians qua politician say what you will about ukip and many people have said many things many of which are nonsense but in my opinion i see the only practical common sense real world manifesto out there if you want open door immigration to give more power to the eu more progressive taxation multiculturalism political correctness and misanthropic futile green politics they aren t for you they will never be for you they won t change this fact to get votes but i suspect that more and more people have become as sick to death of these insipid trite and regurgitated bromides as i have guess what i m proud to be british proud of freedom proud of capitalism proud of individual responsibility i do believe the undeniable and painfully obvious fact that some cultures are better than others i believe that religion is dangerous i believe that radical islam is one of the greatest threats to our planet today i believe that whilst an elite cadre of politically motivated scientists and celebrities cry wolf over climate change that iran north korean and isis are the real enemies at the gate and because of this climate of fear over what we say and do nowadays i have to follow such a statement with and i m not a racist and i care about the environment and the poor in case anyone thinks i m a neo nazi because i don t buy the guardian and i don t watch the bbc and i don t think the nhs is great britain s cultural apex here i limited myself to a triumvirate of topics with which i hope to best espouse ukip one disclaimer i represent no one but myself i am not an apologist for anyone this is my opinion and whilst i know i appear recalcitrant when i say i genuinely don t care if you agree with me or not the truth is i hope this does strike a chord with the honest undecided i am pro gay marriage i believe that the state should recognise the lawful union of two human beings regardless of gender i believe this because the state has no right to oppose those private choices of citizens which do not impinge on the freedom of others note i am not saying that getting married is itself a fundamental right rather the state has no power to deny marriage to gay people because in a free society everyone is equal in the eyes of the law private citizens may choose to associate or not associate with other private citizens but the government has no such freedom it must be fair and impartial to all citizens with respect to the law the government cannot choose to not associate with its citizens however because i won t claim a contradiction i can t force private citizens to enter into discussion negotiation business or contractual arrangement with other 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