Brief Thoughts on the Game of Thrones Conclusion

[caitri]

(such as it was)

I've meant to write this all week, but I've been tired/ busy. So it's not a full meta.

I think I'm one of the few people who was okay with the ending. (NB That said I don't think that's the ending we'll get in the books, assuming we ever do get said books.) I admire the literary symmetry of it, and the homage to The Scouring of the Shire.

It didn't match up with my headcanons, which I consider superior, but I would, because I am a fangirl, but that's another thing. And also what fic is for. 

And now to be overly honest, and kind of a dick:

The best part of GoT being over is all the people who have never read a goddamn bit of genre in their lives will go. the fuck. away. and stop giving their hot takes on genre elevation/transcendence/whatever. Is GRRM a good writer? Yes. Do I enjoy his books? Sometimes more than others (the problematic sex needs to fucking stop, jesus). Is GoT/ASoIaF superior to all other fantasy novels? NOPE NOPE NOPE. Does gritty make genre better? Not necessarily.

So fuckin' tired of those arguments from the past 8 years, jfc. /rant

Comments

[minoanmiss]

Oh God yes may "grim = realistic" and "rape everywhere = realistic" have reached their high-water marks and EBB AWAY.

[caitri]

I knoooooooooooooow! It's EXHAUSTING. The recurrent argument of "that's just the way it was back then." You mean the way it was in this FICTIONAL PLACE THAT DOESN'T EXIST AND IS THEREFORE WITHIN FULL AUTHORIAL CONTROL?

My personal "fave" was explaining how the writing of women was problematic, eg. a scene in A Game of Thrones where Danerys is thinking about her small breasts moving under her vest AS YA DO.
Dudebro: It's just showing her internalized objectification.
Me: ALTERNATIVELY, George wanted to think about boobies.