Yeah, I know, mate. I got the sarcasm. It's a lazy joke, and I'm fucking sick of it.

Lulz period jokes are so transgressive gosh wow

This is the most satisfying observation I've read, and one that actually improves the first two books for me significantly. Also, given how thoughtful Bryke are, I'm absolutely sure that was planned.

Yeah, she tells her when they're leaving King's Landing, which happens after Ned tells Cersei about his plan. So, her action leads to her being kept in King's Landing, since Ned was sending Arya, Sansa, and his household away without him. But it's Ned's inherent mercy that causes his death (and Robert's), since he…

Nope nope nope—Ned gets himself killed by telling Cersei what he's going to do. Also, if you hate an 11yo girl in a series with fucking Gregor Clegane and Ramsay Bolton, you've got your priorities mixed up.

A kind of silly example of this is Sailor Moon—the main character, if she were the lone female character, would absolutely be a negative female stereotype—clumsy, flighty, thinks about boys and shopping and other trivial things all the time. But because she's surrounded by other female characters with different…

Dude, just pay attention to the world. Basically any female writer on the internet has received at least one rape threat, especially if they're in any way critical of any male-dominated subculture (comics is a big one, but sport and video games are even worse). And most of those writers will talk about it frankly.…

It's absolutely my favorite movie, and probably the movie I've watched more than any other.

Ok, there are lots of different responses. The first is the visceral anti-rape one, which I'm sure many people have to the gore as well. The second is a characterization one—since this was changed from the source material, it fucks up the characterization for Jaime and Cersei in big ways that betray a fundamental lack…

Woohoo!

Yeah, I'm sure I have! I just…I don't understand what the showrunners find compelling in the least in characters like Robb. He's a perfectly nice person who tries to do his best. But on a narrative level, he holds little interest for me. And of course, I really dislike it because the showrunners sacrifice Catelyn's…

Yeah, he said stuff about both Pate and Varamyr's appearances being indicators that Martin doesn't know what story he's telling anymore. Which, to me, is frankly incorrect—Varamyr in particular sets up a great deal of thematic content in ADWD, specifically about magic and the loss of humanity, as well as all the…

I would write that essay, but also I want someone else to!

Yeah, this is mystifying to me—why return Jaime and Brienne to KL a couple weeks early just so they can delay the altar sex, have both Jaime and Brienne see Sansa and do jack shit about it, and generally serve no purpose? It's like they didn't know how to stretch out the buddy comedy road trip for another couple…

Yeah, agreed. I don't think I'll ever really understand that narrative either.

No, I definitely don't want to say that he's secretly sexist. In general, when talking about this kind of stuff, I find it very unhelpful to call directors actually sexist or racist, etc. But I do think that it can be indicative of a thoughtlessness that ends up being harmful—because when the show treats what comes…

Cannibalism separate from murder, or murder for the sake of cannibalism? Because in the latter case, I just generally think of rape and murder being of the same category of crimes. Versus actually just eating dead people…meh.

It can definitely be both! Especially because bad filmmaking can be indicative of a really harmful perspective—since directing is literally showing you what to look at. And like, I definitely understand the perspective that the director just didn't communicate what he thought he was communicating, but that mistake is…

Yeah, what people don't understand about the conversation regarding gendered nudity is that direction matters more than quantity. The camera literally forces the viewer to consider the women's bodies as sexual objects, while male nudity is really almost never filmed the same way.

Yeah, I honestly think it's part of a larger writing problem within GOT—that they don't really understand the tropes as well as Martin does, and so where he fleshes them out, they just represent them without a whole lot of thought. Catelyn's arc (or lack thereof) was the best example of this—that they couldn't…