Why Is No One In The Game Of Thrones Fandom Talking About The Fact That Alfie Allen Named His Daughter

Why is no one in the Game of Thrones fandom talking about the fact that Alfie Allen named his daughter Arrow?

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Last week was my grandmothers funeral (we knew for a while she was going to die and didn’t even know who we were anymore). The day after I watched endgame. Yesterday I watched the Gotham finale. Today I had to watch my favourite GoT Character die (also knowing he still would not get an emmy for his amazing role, because he never got one for the last few seasons, where he had a lot more scenes) and I finished reading a book that has an open ending and no second book, because it was supposed to be a stand alone.

Does anybody have a suggestion on what I could read/watch that is happy and joyful and finished, in order to fill this hole that is getting bigger everyday, because I need something happy right now in order to compensate. Preferably with a lot of fanwork for it!

Okay I have read quite some articles about Apu getting written out of the Simpsons and a few saying he wasn’t going to be, but in any kind of way:

If the solution with the problem of having a stereotypical character is to

a) ignore all other sterotypical characters in the show that aren’t of color

and

b) write him out entirely,

then the problem is not that the character is a sterotype.

The problem is that producers these days think they have to listen to people who whine on the Internet, instead of what their actual watchers care about.

The Simpons is from a different time, so they probably wouldn’t make a chacter like him anymore today.

But the would have absoltly no problem with making a character like Willy, or Cleatus again. Because this isn’t about stereotypes in general. It’s about sterotypes of people of color being offensive, while sterotypes of white people aren’t.

I am from Germany and you know what? A good sterotype-joke is something I laugh about. And we get made a lot of stereotype-jokes (not all of them good, but Simpsons did some funny ones).

Besides the fact that whenever something like this comes up, apperently only white people seem to be offended.

I saw Indian people defendiving Apu.

And they are the only ones with the right to be upset about this.

It takes away what they have to say.

So intead of focusing if actually someone who the issue would affect is offended they focus on people who have nothing to do with it.

I read a lot about just bad sequels coming out and in all kinds of arts, like books, games, movies and television series.

But the thing is, it’s not that good stuff doesn’t come out anymore, but it doesn’t get as much advertisement anymore.

I have to search so much to find something good (that’s not fanfiction, because there is so much amazing stuff that is so easy to find, especially easy to look for what I want to read in the moment and how long it is aswell). There is still so much amazing stuff, but because big companies like Disney just overflow everything with their advertisment it’s hard to find the good stuff.

Over the Garden Wall came out 2014 and the only reason I knew about it, was because amazon prime had it in the “only available for a short period” section, so I watched it in one go and it was wonderful.

But I would have never seen it, if it wasn’t for that lucky moment. Because there is no advertisment at all.

My favourite author is in nearly no bookstore, even if his books get translated in over 20 languages, because it’s not your average everyday thriller.

So the problem isn’t that there isn’t good content, the problem is finding said good content.

Because the big companies don’t care about good storys, but only about making money, which is why bad sequels or remakes are coming more often, because it’s cheaper to copy than to write new.

This. Is. EVERYTHING.

i have finally figured out my personal problem with GoT Season 8.

And yes, it’s the writing.

For the last 5 episodes I though it was not even in any way GRRM plan, like nothing of it.

And then I startet noticing the overall plotpoints itself.

So:

The others/Night King kill Viserion. Dany notices she is not as welcome in Westeros as she had hoped. Dany finds out, that Jon has better claim to the Iron Throne. Ser Jorah dies in battle, protecting Dany. Dany notices the people love Jon, but not her. Euron kills Rhegal (most likely with dragonbinder in the books). Cersei kills Missandei. Jon turns Dany down, because she is his aunt. Dany slowly decends to madness and succumbs to her “with fire and blood - I will take it” -part, ignoring everything else out of pure rage and despair. Like all of that makes sense. But stuffing all of that in 5 episodes doesn’t. Aerys madness took years before he started burning people. And Danys just took a couple of weeks. The pacing is off. That is the issue.

And that all characters are getting more and more supperficial instead of more complex every season. I can see Jamie wanting to be with Cersei when she dies, there is so much of “we came into this world together and we are going to leave it together” going on with them, that I can see him going back to her, when he knows she is going to die. What I can’t see is him saying he didn’t care for King’s Landing. Because he didn’t kill Aerys for Cersei. He did it because it was the necessairy thing to do.

And taking that away undermines his redemption ark completly.

And I still don’t know why Sansa would be so indiplomatic in Danys face. When they gave her Jeyne Poole’s storyline in Season 5 she smiled in Roose Boltons face. You can’t tell me that she couldn’t be nice enough to Dany and voice her concern later to Jon in private. She lied in Joffreys face all the time, acting as if she loved him for years. She can fake being okay with Dany.

Sansa in the books is smart enough to lie to Tyrion at 13 in the books and he doesn’t realise it. And then show Sansa goes on and is so open about not liking Dany, while she still needs her help. Afterwards maybe, but not before, not while she still needs Dany.

And I can’t see any foreshaddowing in the books about Arya killing the Night King. I can see some in the show. (What do we say to the god of death? and blue eyes) both of of those instences were show only. And the forshaddowing at the show was minimum at best. 

I am also not sure if book Theon would ever be able to fight again. Because his condition of both his mind and his body are way worse in the books. But I can absolutly see him going back to Winterfell to die like he since Rmsay and the Red Wedding thought he should have. Fighting for a Stark.

I could go on with this, but my point is, that the pacing this season is way to fast and the bad writing (seriously, most of the dialog this season was really bad, not just that everybody has plot armor during the battle - I love Sam, but in the books he would haven been dead) and that makes the actual plot feel like it can’t be GRRM intention. But I think the overall plot points could work really well in the books, just that they would be way better written.