Tag: Game of Thrones
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Westeros is Hell
Many, not all, fantasy worlds that create substantial fandoms have, at least in some small part, an aspirational aspect that drives the identification. They build and require a sense that (regardless of the plotting), the story landscape or story rules are enviable enough that you kinda wish you could live within them. It’s what gives…
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A photo finish: was film, or TV, the narrative medium of the decade?
My best of the year and best of the decade lists for film will be on Letterboxd before the end of the year, but by the end of September I was also aware of another, marginally more unsettling feeling: that TV had eclipsed, or come very close to eclipsing, film as the storytelling art form…
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Destroy All Monsters: HBO’s WESTWORLD and the “Entertainment” of Sexual Violence
Trigger warning, sexual violence (and spoilers too, I guess, if you don’t want the first fifteen minutes of the first episode of Westworld spoiled for you): at the end of the Westworld pilot’s extended opening fake-out, a human man drags a robot female into a barn, presumably to rape her. He tells her, as he is…
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Destroy All Monsters: WARCRAFT Sucks, But Fantasy Doesn’t
New site! TwitchFilm has become ScreenAnarchy, and Destroy All Monsters continues. This week I come not to bury fantasy, but to praise it (but bury WARCRAFT tho).
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Destroy All Monsters: GAME OF THRONES Is Better On TV. Who Needs The Books?
I swear to you – I thought I was OUT of this whole thing. The last year and a half really sucked the will to Thrones right out of me. Last night’s premiere, though – the first “post-books” episode – had an intriguing sense of purpose.