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Re: The Official Game of Thrones [A Song of Ice and Fire] Thread
http://thefederalist.com/2014/04/22/game-of-thrones-are-you-not-entertained/#disqus_thread
I wanted to link to that. It's a critic of the show.
I'm always fine with people having differing views. Television, movies, books, art..they are all subjective. Something that appeals to one person won't appeal to another. Obvious enough.
But i've never understood those who criticize fictional works as not telling a "realistic" story. I mean I get it if the story protrays itself as some sort of truthful event and then doesn't follow the script of what really happened. But these people who, when watching fiction, are looking for a story that they find believable...I don't get it. So here is this guy, and his essential complaint is this: "Game Of Thrones paints a world that is full of darkness and evil and only bad things happen. The little bit of good is always stamped out. That's not realistic. Humans are good, so this story isn't being true to how the world really is."
Forget for a moment whether or not you buy the premise that the world, where good people do good things, and more good things are done than bad things, is more interesting. Never mind. I do not understand why every story must portray that? Why that I, as a conservative, need to justify my liking of the show/story from some conservative standpoint.
It's fiction. It's not real. I don't need the show to portray my viewpoint of society, and more specifically, man's inner nature, in order to enjoy it. Do I believe the world is dark and only bad things happen? No. Does it make any fucking difference in whether or not I can enjoy Game of Thrones? No, of course not. But it does for this guy. He simply can't comprehend how someone who is a conservative/libertarian can justify the worldview of the show, and in turn enjoy the show. It seems for him that unless you can justify the shows view of man as something similar to reality then you can't enjoy the show. Thus, everyone who enjoys the show must somehow find that its portrayal of man is accurate, at least in the eyes of the people enjoying it.
It never crosses his mind that I don't need to be able to justify the worldview of the show in order to enjoy it and find it entertaining. I can separate what happens there, from what I think happens here. The entertainment value I get from the show is not dependent on whether or not I'm able to match that show's view of the world to my own. I don't care.
So, after that rant, I wanted to ask if this is the same for everyone else? Do you guys that enjoy the show inherently believe it's depiction of man and society as somewhat accurate? Or are you like me, in that you could care less if the show correctly portrays man and society as you see it?
http://thefederalist.com/2014/04/22/game-of-thrones-are-you-not-entertained/#disqus_thread
I wanted to link to that. It's a critic of the show.
I'm always fine with people having differing views. Television, movies, books, art..they are all subjective. Something that appeals to one person won't appeal to another. Obvious enough.
But i've never understood those who criticize fictional works as not telling a "realistic" story. I mean I get it if the story protrays itself as some sort of truthful event and then doesn't follow the script of what really happened. But these people who, when watching fiction, are looking for a story that they find believable...I don't get it. So here is this guy, and his essential complaint is this: "Game Of Thrones paints a world that is full of darkness and evil and only bad things happen. The little bit of good is always stamped out. That's not realistic. Humans are good, so this story isn't being true to how the world really is."
Forget for a moment whether or not you buy the premise that the world, where good people do good things, and more good things are done than bad things, is more interesting. Never mind. I do not understand why every story must portray that? Why that I, as a conservative, need to justify my liking of the show/story from some conservative standpoint.
It's fiction. It's not real. I don't need the show to portray my viewpoint of society, and more specifically, man's inner nature, in order to enjoy it. Do I believe the world is dark and only bad things happen? No. Does it make any fucking difference in whether or not I can enjoy Game of Thrones? No, of course not. But it does for this guy. He simply can't comprehend how someone who is a conservative/libertarian can justify the worldview of the show, and in turn enjoy the show. It seems for him that unless you can justify the shows view of man as something similar to reality then you can't enjoy the show. Thus, everyone who enjoys the show must somehow find that its portrayal of man is accurate, at least in the eyes of the people enjoying it.
It never crosses his mind that I don't need to be able to justify the worldview of the show in order to enjoy it and find it entertaining. I can separate what happens there, from what I think happens here. The entertainment value I get from the show is not dependent on whether or not I'm able to match that show's view of the world to my own. I don't care.
So, after that rant, I wanted to ask if this is the same for everyone else? Do you guys that enjoy the show inherently believe it's depiction of man and society as somewhat accurate? Or are you like me, in that you could care less if the show correctly portrays man and society as you see it?