Beware the Sway
Apr. 19th, 2019 03:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceagleSomeone played the first few episodes of Game of Thrones for me today. Now, I see that they are trying to work the mood so that the audience gets to feeling like Papa Stark is a protagonist, and get us sympathetic to his character.
But don't let the changing contexts fool ya.
This guy killed that innocent wolf. And that innocent forest traveler.
Not to mention he cheated on his wife!
Makes me wonder what his next valiant deed *cough cough* will be....
And I'm not the first to point out how a screenplay can be built to try to inject sympathy, even after the most heinous deeds have been blatantly shown:
"Take off my mask, I'm repentent now"
"...but you blew up an entire planet!"
"Oh... that...."
*eye roll*
But don't let the changing contexts fool ya.
This guy killed that innocent wolf. And that innocent forest traveler.
Not to mention he cheated on his wife!
Makes me wonder what his next valiant deed *cough cough* will be....
And I'm not the first to point out how a screenplay can be built to try to inject sympathy, even after the most heinous deeds have been blatantly shown:
"Take off my mask, I'm repentent now"
"...but you blew up an entire planet!"
"Oh... that...."
*eye roll*
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Date: 2019-04-20 06:30 am (UTC)heh, yeah.. I just had to write that analysis once I realized how the path was going, and how the way it was manipulating the audience wasn't too typical ;)
Admittedly I'm a little trepidatious to venture into ten full years ahead.. but I have to admit the content is intriguing, and I can see why it got to be popular...
...and I still haven't gotten to the cool dragons yet! :D