Great sci-fi is not about the future, but about the present, showing us facets of our society from different angles. Writers that focus to hard on  "hard science fiction" nearly always read as dated later on. Predicting the future is hard, using the future to talk about today is easier

Great sci-fi is not about the future, but about the present, showing us facets of our society from different angles. Writers that focus to hard on  "hard science fiction" nearly always read as dated later on. Predicting the future is hard, using the future to talk about today is easier

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K. Thrace: As I recall, it was Ned who refused Renly. Renly approaced Ned and offered his support in seizing Jofferey and the Throne. But Ned refused him, because it would not be honorable and he distrusted Renly's ambition.

Valar Dohaeris.

Just like True Blood is written by and cast with real vampires, so a show about the broke and struggeling should be made by actually broke and struggeling people.
This is why the creators of Gossip Girls are paid enough to actually live in luxury on the Upper East Side while the creators of Girls clearly should not be…

Exactly…I had the same problem last year. Why complain that a show about an amoral family trying to survive on the brink of abject poverty has a main plot centered around people doing amoral things and being rather unlikeable?
Yes, Frank is an bastard. That is the point! Yes, Karen is unstable and promiscuous, also…

The sexism is clearly mostly on the writer side, as you say they are writing these women as very one sided characters and use them as an obstacle for their male main characters to overcome. All these characters fail the most fundamental tests of well rounded characters.

Sexism. Pretty certain of it. It only happens to female characters, mostly when they are written as the voice of (boring) reason or as overly passive compared to the crazy (male) main characters.

Ah, I think I see your problem…