Five out of six episodes in the books. Thus far? Virtually every major character is both white and male. No gay shit. No girl boss shit. Positive portrayals of men and masculinity. Minimal or no millennial writing. The show appears to be unapologetically targeting the traditional male audience. It's a complete 180 from the last decade of feminized DEI trash.
How did this get approved??
More seriously: yes, this is undoubtedly the "reconciliation" phase of the leftist takeover. We're expected to come crawling back to Hollywood because they've been magnanimous enough to offer us a few scraps of quality targeted entertainment.
But look at the bright side: imagine how miserable these woke executives and producers must have been reading scripts and watching dailies that featured almost no women, minorities, or gays lol
Forgot to add: the show is universally beloved online. Gee, I wonder why...
An abusive spouse has some good days. A studio needs to make something at least halfway decent once in a while so you come crawling back. After all, if you really left them, who would they beat?
Eh, while I agree with you that it's much, much less woke than House of the Dragon (which, to my shame, I also watched), there is some woke stuff in there. The title character is in love with two (mulatto) black girls, one of which wasn't black or even a girl in the book (I'm told, never read), and I don't know about the other one.
Also not a fan of the vulgarity - there is no reason to show the guy's ass (which they did three times in the first episode) or his bowel problems.
Let's not lower our standards because the stuff has been so off-the-charts terrible in the past few years.
But still I find it enjoyable. While obviously not faithful to the medieval era, it does a good job of being more realistic than normal. I like the writing, and people who read the books say that a lot of it is straight from the books.
Yeah, showing him projectile shitting was really unnecessary. Just as showing a full frontal of the old guy pissing with that comically large prosthetic penis in the second episode.
Between the 28 Years Later comically large member and this, and I'm dure there are others, there seems to be a recent trend of showing big ol dongs in media. I really can't think of a reason why, but I've noticed a bit of a glut of showing big penises.
That might be the wokest part of the show (though I do not think it's woke overall).
As dumb as this sounds, part of me thinks it's to make men jealous and raise expectations of penis size for women, which may reinforce making men feel bad.
There's a running joke in Future Man that one of the characters has a massive dong. They show it a couple of times.
You didn’t like the part where he discussed fisting with a ten year old boy?
I thought it was bad enough that they were singing about it. And then they just piled on that. I would have minded it less if it were historically accurate, but I'm pretty sure men in the middle ages weren't singing about girls sticking their ...
Childhood friend is race/sex swapped because only niggers can be sexual interest to a giant Irishman, adult sexual interest is another nigger.
I've been enjoying the show, but it's still 35% faggotry. Much better than it's been, but only enough to sneak it in since we haven't had any steak to eat in YEARS and fuck it we'll settle for select grade chuck.
Adult interest was non-white in the books too.
Whenever I read these rave reviews about something not being woke, I always end up disappointed.
The Witcher was supposedly also not woke in season 1. (Laughable.)
People's standards for "not woke" are incredibly low because they're desperate for something. I hear you. I've thought the same too. "Not woke" nowadays is like woke from the early 00s. Hardly based.
Call me when they've got a new series where the main character is a White male who slaps women's asses in public, backhands his girlfriend if she speaks out of line, uses retarded, faggot and nigger is casual conversation and the storyline is about how he saves the world from marxists.
At this point, people will take heavy-handed allegory and call it not-woke, just because it is, at least, still allegory and not just direct smashing to the face. Thumbscrews still firmly attached, but loosened a bit, and there was much rejoicing.
Its a rope-a-dope.
See Reacher.
One good season to get you to tolerate it so you'll consume the next, which is where the propaganda will be in full force.
watched something called The Eagle. it was 99% male cast and light skin complexion.takes place in 200 AD rome and britain. literally only females that spoke were servants/slaves in the background. and not a dark skin complexion in sight lol. but.. came out in 2011.
It's a trap. For non-leftoids, watching modern western TV is like being Charle Brown trying to kick a football. Every time you see a fun looking trailer, TV watchers come running in the hopes that maybe this time they won't yank away the fun entertainment and replace it with homosexual propaganda. And like clockwork, every time, the second season is gay and badass male characters devolve into doormats for girlbosses,if they didn't already do so towards the end of the first season.
The studios abuse their audience like a battered spouse, who keeps taking hits and coming back for more. You'd be better off watching something old or foreign.
No reconciliation with evil people.
All the subversive writers are too busy on Spartacus : The house of Ashur
I watched the first five episodes last night with a friend, it was better than I expected, but it still carried the taint of modern writing. The love interests both being brown, the crowd shots all having a sprinkling of diversity, and every episode has had one explicit shitting/pissing/vomiting scene.
And the worst thing is this too is adapted from a book series GRRM hasn't finished yet, so if the series outpaces the published material, I'm sure it's going to crater as hard as Game of Thrones did.
There were some YouTubers who made some videos about how masculine this show is, but I did not watch the videos.
My rule of thumb is: wait for the second season.
We should know by now how Hollyweird and streaming services operate.
This isn't to be blackpilled, but to use discernment.
If they can manage to make the second season decent without any DEI, then it might be a safe bit of content to consume.
Joker 2 incoming.
The chuds enjoyed the show so it will be 100% obliterated soon.
I am torn on it because it's been a breath of fresh air but at the same time they make light of masculine issues and make a mockery of traditional male power fantasies.
Dunks "has honor left westeros?" speech had me almost driven to tears, only to have it jump cut to like a dude farting and instantly take me out of it.
Yes, I know those are the subversive jokes GRRM likes. Still the Prince coming in to ride with Dunk saved the moment
I remember the casting call for Dunc called for any race of actor so I was worried but I'm enjoying it. Of course the two love interests are halfbreeds and there's random black people around which they never used to do. But considering the state of modern entertainment this show is a breath of fresh air
That is a pleasant surprise. I want to get the books. I do have a bit of nerd pettiness and really don’t want to support GRRM since he refuses to finish Ice and Fire
Dunk & Egg is a series of 3 self-contained short stories. They released a book that contains all 3. They're actually good, and I would recommend them.
Apparently, GRRM said that he had ideas for 10 more novellas, but those will probably never see the light of day, because he's a fat, lazy communist.
And he has the nerve to criticize Tolkien
Dance of Dragons is at least finished so when House of the Dragon resumes it can at least work towards a known end point. Not that the audience will enjoy it because it ends with a fan favourite being gruesomely eaten alive by a dragon, although whether they go full 6 bites or just a single chomp remains to be seen.
Amusingly, House of the Dragon still has problems because the showrunner is rejecting Martin's notes. The second season had some really saggy subplots as a result. Not really sure why he would do that.
That's the ASoIaF series, though. Dunk & Egg are stories that happen roughly 80 years before that. Although I really enjoyed ASoIaF when I read the 5 books 15 years ago, the fact that GRRM will never finish the series means that I wouldn't recommend them to people just discovering the franchise, unless they were massive fans of the tv series for some odd reason. The Dunk & Egg novellas are self-contained enough that you don't need to read any other books by GRRM to enjoy them.
The story of Dunk and Egg isn't fully written, that's the point. While their eventually demise is known, there are still meant to be several more stories GRRM claims he will start before getting to Summerhall.
In a recent interview with the actors who play Duncan and Aegon, they insinuated that Duncan may have survived Summerhall. So no, we don't actually know what happened there, or whether they both died there. GRRM constantly relies on unreliable narrators to spread rumours and build intrigue. Of course, he could also have simply changed his mind over the years and only decided to make Dunk survive recently.
But again, I doubt that we'll ever see him release that in a book. He's too lazy for that.
This isn't adresssed enough, imo. Cat and Sansa are two of the worst culprits of this and most of the reasons things go so wrong in the main story.
Cat tries to get Tyrion run through a sham trial but fucks it up.
She tries to groom Rob as some genius general except all her intel is wrong.
Even her thoughts on her own brother are wrong when he nearly defeats the Mountain rather than let Rob capture him as planned, because neither told Cat's brother the actual plan as they didn't think he was that good.
With Sansa being her daughter it's no surprise she's just as retarded and lying in almost every PoV chapter she has.
They'll do it in the second season
I've only watched the first 3 episodes, and I've enjoyed them. I did read the Dunk and Egg books, year ago, and I don't really remember much about them.
I know it's HBO and violence and sex is kind of their thing, but I wish it would be toned down a little. I think my wife would enjoy watching the show, but she was out the second Dunk started spraying diarrhea in the first episode.
I found the giant dong pretty funny, not going to lie. Apparently the producers said they felt like they had kind of shit all over Ser Arlen and wanted to give the guy SOMETHING good in his life!
My other complaint is rather minor, but still. You're going for realism in this series, right? So there's a tournament that starts at night? There's no way they would be jousting in the dark. LITERALLY UNWATCHABLE.
Is it actually non subversive or is it just entertaining bread and circuses?
IDK, I’m kind of mixed on it. All the stuff from the short story is great, everything they added is absolute dogshit. It’s like eating ice cream with broken glass in it.