Game of Thrones

Okay, I need to rant angrily for a moment.

We just finished the most recent episode of Game of Thrones. Without giving away too much, it was revolting beyond what they even do normally. It just ended and I'm still disturbed like someone drove a motorboat through the quiet lake that connects my me with everything else.

I don't know if they have different people write the scripts each week, but this time the writing was fucked in the head and it almost seems like they must have done it during some sick high on what they were delivering. I guess this was by design. It wasn't any specific section of the script, but really the whole episode was made to disturb you the whole way through, including a climax of it. It was just such a huge dose, and it felt so wrapped in like, this weird underlying dark humor. Like the music at the end. It didn't make the shock of what was going on feel bad, but it made the audience cringe, like listening to hate-speech does. You know what I mean?

I'm not hating on Game of Thrones. I'm just... fuck. I am sure that the audience just got split down the middle, with everyone who isn't fully invested totally abandoning the series now. That's how bad this episode was. I don't know if what I'm feeling was the intended emotion they were conveying. It feels so cheap and absurd. If anyone argues to me about it's realism they are fucking kidding themselves. Game of Thrones isn't about realism, the book never was. I don't think serious themes like these should be explored by rednecks who don't understand the subtly of experience that actually makes them, in real life, brutal and terrifying.

I mean, that's a little extreme to say, but I'm just making a point. The use of brutal, grotesque scenes about these subjects isn't needless because we should shelter ourselves from them, it is because they are heinously simplified. Just jerked out spunk that explores nothing and makes you feel nothing, understand nothing about it. The only people it effects are deviants who are already turned on by it. Film makers or whatever are allowed to make things that spook us out of our safe comfort zones, but I makes me sick when they do it as if to desensitize us, because after the scene is done we don't reflect on it. We usually just repress it. We decide it was gross and made you want to watch something else instead, but we tune it out from our real lives, because naturally it sucks to keep thinking about and it happened for no reason.

I'm going to sound a lot less hopefully and progressively optimistic than I usually am, but I'm still bothered after the episode >_> I'm shook up.

I'm going to watch Mad Men until I relax.

Yeah this week's episode was a bit split down the middle really between serious and dark humour. Overall I enjoyed the episode (especially the Jamie/Brienne scene) but I really didn't like was the ending song which was so out of place not only by GoT's standards but what happened with the climax of the episode as well.

Some of the scenes not from the books like the Pod scene was good and while scenes that have been changed for the TV adaption have been generally been good if not better than what’s happened in the book IMO, Theon's saga has been changed a lot a bit poorly, but if they stayed with what happen with the books, it would be straight up torture porn.

It seems that your main issues was with the ending, and I don't know if you've read the books are not, but that scene happens exactly as it did in the book, and personally I think it was handled perfectly.

But the ending song completely ruined it.

At least it's good to see another GoT fan out there ^^