In case anyone thought the Game of Thrones spinoffs were going to be anything but woke garbage
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Everyone agrees that Game of Thrones became a dumpster fire, and people correctly blamed the writers for the severe dropoff.
Almost no one, however, dared to recognize how the writers ruined the show: by systematically destroying virtually every male character while hastily and unrealistically elevating virtually every female character. The show went from hardcore medieval patriarchy to retarded feminist power fantasy. Everyone hated it, but they couldn't admit why.
And in the case of Cat she literally did it all!
Taking Tyrion hostage with no actual basis. Causes the War of the 5 Kings
Lets Jaime go free in direct opposition to her son who is the King in the North. This ends up killing both of them and everyone else who was following her son.
See the Tyrion part again. Lies about why she's arresting him and then tries to organize a sham trial at her sister's place which backfires because her sister is literally batshit insane.
Also the Jaime thing. Literally takes action against her son the King because she wanted her daughters back. In the end both get away for completely unrelated reasons. In the books Joffrey is already dead and Sansa is already gone by the time Jaime makes it back to KL while Arya wasn't in KL since the first book.
Also some other notes: One of the issues that leads to Rob having to treat with the Frey's is failing to capture the Mountain because Cat's brother was far more successful engaging him than thought. Because Cat thinks he's an idiot and tells Rob this so he too thinks his uncle is an idiot and didn't expect him to actually win the fight that happened.
Literally everything that goes wrong on the mainland in GoT is Cat's fault.
To be fair, the ending crushed the feminist power fantasies.
Eh, I wouldn't go that far. Yeah, Daenaerys fully devolved into a psychopathic tyrant (in a manner much more rushed & less organic than the buildup to that in the books, which will never be finished...) and was killed for it, but the show's other feminist superwhamen got off just fine.
Sansa, the queen bitch whose idea of being a good leader includes talking down to the (male) help and her uncle (who's sacrificed everything & became a Lannister prisoner for their family) on the regular, betraying Jon's secret immediately and antagonizing Dany the dragon-rider who has obliterated entire armies on the occasion that she and her dragons actually participate: becomes Queen of the North with no apparent repercussions and despite having done nothing to deserve that crown.
Arya, the show's most obvious female Mary Sue to such an extreme that even the defenders of the later seasons have conceded there's no defending the bullshit she gets up to before whacking the Night King, like that time she swam in an open sewer after being gut-stabbed half a dozen times and was just peachy: lives to the end and sails into the sunset, at peace with her family after not having to choose between them or her revenge at all (unlike what has been foreshadowed in the books).
Brienne, who the show turned into a totally un-feminine brutish thug shorn of all the kindness & self-doubts she had in the books and allowed to also get her revenge on Stannis without any moral conflict or consequence: lives to the end, becomes a Kingsguard and writes positively about Jaime in the White Book despite his own complete betrayal of his eight-season character arc.
And so on. Other than Dany, I think the only major female characters to get screwed over were Ellaria and the Sand Snakes, and that was because they had become way too hated by the audience for even D&D and the late-season GoT writing staff to get away with giving them anything resembling a happy ending.
Well, the finale made feminists cry on Twitter for it to be rewritten so it must have done something right.
My guess is that they invested too much & saw themselves in Dany, whose show version was an unironic 'enlightened white progressive female savior of the world's oppressed' type until literally the second-to-last episode. A lot of her shadier actions and blatant atrocities, like having a little girl tortured to compel a confession from her (almost certainly innocent) parents in Book 5, are downplayed or simply don't happen at all on the show, so her progression to Girl Hitler felt way less organic and more 'unfair' on-screen.
Did it?
Arya usurped Jon's story.
Sansa is queen of Winterfell.
Yara leads the Ironborn.
Brienne commands the Kingsguard.
And before the retarded finale killed them, Cersei and Dany were the most powerful characters in the series... because male characters were sidelined to make way for them.
Fair point, I never really paid full attention to the show. I watched a few episodes over the run, then the finale. I'm basing my conclusions off the copious feminist tears from the finale, which honestly made my life, especially the people who named their daughters after female Hitler herself.
Dragon Bitch going crazy and just killing people is still a feminist power fantasy, even if she lost it all for that. I know, I got to hear all about it.