[ SECRET POST #2766 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2766 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Rent]


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03.
[Attack on Titan]


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04.
[Game of Thrones]


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05.
[Jeff the Killer/creepypasta]


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06.
[the last airbender/ lok]


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07.
[Steven Universe]


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08.
[Michael Ballack]


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09.
[Transformers]


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Notes:

Staying late at work again. Sorry. :(

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Comments

[kallanda_lee]

Honestly, I think a lot of scenes in Game of Thrones ARE supposed to make you uncomfortable or well, think about them. Especially in the last season we've seen a lot of problems with actually ruling for Dany. I'm not sure this scene was intended that way, however I do think the whole adoration thing was totally a set-up for her as she is now, with her dragons going out of control and her seeing abolishing slavery isn't quite so easy (and comes at a cost).

[darkmanifest]

Yeah, I don't have the highest opinion of GoT, but I really think the unfortunate implications of this moment were intentional, if a little anvilicious. She's riding high off assimilating into and gaining power over various "savage" cultures and forcefully changing them for the better (in her head)...only for all her foreign white savior ambition to blow up in her face. Not that Dany is wrong that slavery needs to stop, but the issue with all savior narratives is the hero trying to be Superman in a situation that requires a more complex approach than simply punching evil away.

[visp]

This. I feel that it's mainly show-fans who don't like the scene, and the book fans are like"just wait." Because they completely deconstruct the White Saviour concept and show how it doesn't work and that for all her good intentions, she didn't quite understand what she was doing, and that the problems these people faced were a bit more complicated than something you could fix with "tah-dah," now you're free.

[darkmanifest]

I agree it's a case of people taking the scene at face value without knowing what happens next, but you'd think all fans would know by now that no character is safe from realistic consequences to their shortsighted actions, no matter how seemingly idealistic and heroic. How many dead Drogos and Red Weddings will it take for people to get that?

[(Anonymous)]

All of this. Btw. I'm a show fan. (I don't like the books all that much because of GRRMs wiriting style)
I cringed at the scene at first, but the "fail" just seemed too inconsistent with their usuall really good management of motifs, so I decided to wait it out and, voila!
I think it's just that people don't get that while the show is bound to be more "objective" than the POV-Style of the books, there is still a way to narrate peoples POVs by aesthetic choices and other techniques than POV-shots. And I think this is Danys POV. "Look at me, I'm the Fairy Queen saving all of you poor brown dirty children."