By Hank Stuever Hank Stuever TV critic Email Bio Follow TV critic April 11 at 10:00 AM It’s too big now to just be a TV show, a diversion. Every couple of decades a great story comes along and grips us more tightly than all the rest, as HBO’s “Game of Thrones” has done, reaching a level of the Harry Potter novels, the Star Wars movies or MGM’s “The Wizard of Oz.
Amid so much talk and typing and vlogging and podcasting, “Game of Thrones” will go down as the TV drama of our time , yet purists oppose any effort to contextualize a show that was conceived and launched in the early Obama years, and is based on a series of five fantasy novels , the first of which came out more than 20 years ago.
Fantasy isn’t always just a fantasy, not if the subtext is doing its job, establishing a mythology and rewriting some moral code. Those of us who watch “Game of Thrones” and sense relevance aren’t watching it wrong or trying too hard to see what isn’t there. You can get to Season 8 and have at least a passing thought that all Westeros politics is local. You can arrive at this penultimate moment and realize, hey, maybe, this is us.
Some could never watch it casually; they needed to know every last detail, down to characters, lineage, royal houses, imaginary geography. They scrutinized the dialogue for any whiff of portent or past/future reference. They corrected each other online — politely, although sometimes furiously — in the comments sections of Monday-morning recaps.
That theory will last about as long as it takes us all to find a new favorite TV show, which will probably start off small and niche-looking; before you know it, people will be tweeting about it, talking about it at work, clamping their hands over their ears at Christmas parties because they’re still a season behind on it.
Lena Headey portrays Cersei Lannister, who sits on the Iron Throne as of the end of Season 7. Late in the game, in Season 6, we see that “Game of Thrones” isn’t even really about the big characters sorting themselves into good, evil and zombie. It’s about money. We watch House Lannister go deeper into hock with the mysterious Iron Bank of Braavos, which provides gold to finance the ongoing war with those who seek to claim the throne.
'And the man breaks' I mean, the books have a strong Anti-war perspective. While the 'game' is interesting, many parts show the human price paid by the lower class for the higher class to play it. Read this excerpt, called 'The Broken Man Speech'
It was about sexy people killing each other. Done. Hot take over.
please, grow up
Maybe it speaks to people in a code
I had a philosophy teacher try to tell us that Star Wars was representative of the US Civil War so.....
bad perspective
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