Yeah, I stopped caring about anything up north once Jon Snow was done with his Full Metal Jacket training crap. Pretty much everything after that is just "what the fuck ever" to me. It never gets interesting and never gains a point.
It's so sad and fucked up that the show responses to criticism of there being too much sexualized violence against women by putting in Theon and Gendry scenes, both because they don't actually make anything better and because the violence Gendry and Theon are subjected to is still so, so different from the violence the women endure. First of all, they're not nameless or unimportant characters, their torture has context and narrative, second all of it is so much "fear of damage to the penis" instead of "being penetrated without your consent" - it has entirely different connotations, imo. It's like saying it's OK that women are half naked in comics because men are half naked too. Yes but LOOK AT THE NATURE OF THAT NUDITY and at how their bodies are drawn. In the same way - yes it's (somewhat) sexualized violence with Theon and Gendry but it's SO DIFFERENT than what we see with women.
I was also shocked at how much I liked Davos. In the books I skipped 90% of his chapters because he was so boring.
I'm really happy Jaime and Cersei are reuntied but... I'm very O_o at the show doing it so early. Jaime and Cersei reuniting is actually one of my favorite scenes from the books, because it happens right after Joffrey is killed and Cersei is standing by his grave after the funeral, and then Jaime kind of comes along out of nowhere and they're so happy to see each other, and both so in need of comfort, that they fuck right there, on their son's grave, while Cersei is on her period. IT'S JUST. Such a perfect encapsulation of Martin's writing, lol.
So, first I'm disappointed that we're robbed of that scene (IDK they might still do it? Would give them an excuse to slip it though) and plus it kind of fucks up their entire dynamic to me! Like, Cersei great drama was that Joffrey was killed when Jaime was away. There's no one to support her, no one to avenge Joffrey, just, she's still missing half her own person and there are consequences to that (it also impacts her attitude towards Brienne). And now he's going to be there for Joffrey's death? Buh? And also the whole point with Brienne is that she's in King's Landing to take Sansa back to Catelyn, and in the books by the time she and Jaime show up Joffrey's been dead a while, Tyrion's been accused of his murder (and how is that going to play out exactly? Cersei and Tyrion have an entirely different dynamic once Jaime's in the mix) and Sansa's been given to Littlefinger and taken to the Vale or whatever. So, Brienne's like "sup Cersei I brought your brother back now give me Sansa" and Cerise's like "lol sorry". Whereas if Brienne's already in King's Landing now... how's that going to play out? O_o IDK IDK it's just all very weird.
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Fri, Jun. 28th, 2013 10:19 pm (UTC)It's so sad and fucked up that the show responses to criticism of there being too much sexualized violence against women by putting in Theon and Gendry scenes, both because they don't actually make anything better and because the violence Gendry and Theon are subjected to is still so, so different from the violence the women endure. First of all, they're not nameless or unimportant characters, their torture has context and narrative, second all of it is so much "fear of damage to the penis" instead of "being penetrated without your consent" - it has entirely different connotations, imo. It's like saying it's OK that women are half naked in comics because men are half naked too. Yes but LOOK AT THE NATURE OF THAT NUDITY and at how their bodies are drawn. In the same way - yes it's (somewhat) sexualized violence with Theon and Gendry but it's SO DIFFERENT than what we see with women.
I was also shocked at how much I liked Davos. In the books I skipped 90% of his chapters because he was so boring.
I'm really happy Jaime and Cersei are reuntied but... I'm very O_o at the show doing it so early. Jaime and Cersei reuniting is actually one of my favorite scenes from the books, because it happens right after Joffrey is killed and Cersei is standing by his grave after the funeral, and then Jaime kind of comes along out of nowhere and they're so happy to see each other, and both so in need of comfort, that they fuck right there, on their son's grave, while Cersei is on her period. IT'S JUST. Such a perfect encapsulation of Martin's writing, lol.
So, first I'm disappointed that we're robbed of that scene (IDK they might still do it? Would give them an excuse to slip it though) and plus it kind of fucks up their entire dynamic to me! Like, Cersei great drama was that Joffrey was killed when Jaime was away. There's no one to support her, no one to avenge Joffrey, just, she's still missing half her own person and there are consequences to that (it also impacts her attitude towards Brienne). And now he's going to be there for Joffrey's death? Buh? And also the whole point with Brienne is that she's in King's Landing to take Sansa back to Catelyn, and in the books by the time she and Jaime show up Joffrey's been dead a while, Tyrion's been accused of his murder (and how is that going to play out exactly? Cersei and Tyrion have an entirely different dynamic once Jaime's in the mix) and Sansa's been given to Littlefinger and taken to the Vale or whatever. So, Brienne's like "sup Cersei I brought your brother back now give me Sansa" and Cerise's like "lol sorry". Whereas if Brienne's already in King's Landing now... how's that going to play out? O_o IDK IDK it's just all very weird.