June 5, 2013
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The Game of Thrones
Or … Why doesn’t George R.R. Martin use twitter? Because he killed all 140 characters.
If you have been reading my site a long time then you know I love this series of books. I first wrote about them on xanga in 2009 Link And the HBO version is going very well I watching every one and looking forward to the next. But what is attractive about George R.R. Martin books?
He give us senseless violence, amorality, and lots of sex, in his brutish world of shifting political alliances and lust filled couplings. But porn has more sex and anti heroes are nothing new. Why would I find a world were no one is good, religion while common is meaningless at best “The gods have no mercy. That’s why they’re gods,” that sums up the loveless faiths in the world that George R.R. Martin has created for us to “enjoy”. But Mostly religion does not effect anyone much in his worlds. Outside of some curses and bit of magic that never seem to work out well, this is not a world of deep faith of any sort.
Faith in anything seems fatal, a mans promise, a woman’s love, human morality, karma, all of it fails you in George R.R. Martin world of ambition for power, greed, and lust. When anyone shows any real nobility in this story, it does not work out well for them.
The Game of Thrones shows us a world that does not even give lip service to our Judeo-Christian sense of morality. Its as if the old Norse pagan gods held supreme on earth. Cruel as they were, they won the competition of ideas and this is their world. Its a dark world, a world we are very happy does not exist. Or does it? I think we often fear that while we constrain ourselves and try to act based on what we see as right and wrong. Others do not and just maybe they are winning.
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Comments (15)
From a review online: “Yes, I fear even those who’ve read the books and knew this was coming could never be fully prepared to see it all transpire on screen.”
I’ll have to keep in mind from now on that every 9th episode each season will be huge (good, bad or worse).
I have only started the first book, but the show seems to be doing well sticking to it. We had just watched the most recent episode last night, and we were BOTH disappointed. Rick kept on saying he couldn’t believe they killed the two that died.
*make that four, actually.
Christianity used to be as brutal, bloody, and corrupt as is consistent with the time period of GoT. You are comparing modern day religion in developed nations, which is apples to oranges.
@coolmonkey - its OK to be ignorant it just the fact that you believe you are not
@trunthepaige - Are you implying that Christianity never got its hands dirty?
@coolmonkey - I’m implying that more than just overstated your position. Christianity has never been what you said . Some church leaders have been corrupt and some invaders have stated that they were doing gods will. But even in these events, great effort was taken to explain why they did things that everyone agreed looked to be evil and unchristian behavior. I was talking about a fantasy world, where no one even feels the need to make excuses. The behavior in this world is not considered immoral at all, its just the way it is. You tired to say “yeah that is the way medieval Christians thought”. If you believe that is true, then you are ignorant. Your trying to rephrase what you said to just “well some did bad things at certain times’. That looks like you even know you where wrong
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@TheTheologiansCafe - I never figured that one out. But it is a complement
I have enjoyed Game of Thrones very much.