Ah, I remember Jaime discussing the guards but I missed him mentioning Loras. Isn’t it against the rules for a member of the King’s guard to be engaged? I thought they all had to pledge chastity.
Maybe he just wanted to put anyone showing friendship or loyalty to Snow in harms way.
Image from Mhysa. And another. In fact if you read the Wikipedia entry you’ll see other people talked about this. I don’t think anyone was being prejudiced, but it was really hard to overlook.
I was talking about the finale from last season, but I did notice that the Meereen slaves had lighter complexions. Ultimately they’re just filming wherever they need to and hiring extras from there, but as we saw last week, sometimes TV shows end up giving impressions that weren’t intended.
Loras isn’t in the Kingsguard. Boros Blount was guarding the door.
I felt the same as Marley23 about the end of Mhysa. Rewatch the scene (relevant bit starts at 3:25) and judge for yourself. It’s the whitest girl in the world being worshipped by a sea of brown. Which is maybe no big deal in Essos, but as a viewer in the real world it felt uncomfortable to me.
I don’t get it. Why would that make someone uncomfortable?
I thought we already went into that. The word Wikipedia used is colonialist, and if you had to describe it in one word, that would probably do the job. The problem is the image of this mass of dark-skinned people worshipping a white person and exalting her like a god. Now, what could they have done about it? It’s tough. Emilia Clarke is awesome and George R.R. Martin is the one who decided the character looks that way. And they did put some money into the local economy; bringing in craploads of extras to Morocco wouldn’t have done that and would have been impractical. The moment is pretty powerful, too. But they probably could have toned down the worship aspect some.
It was completely realistic to me. She’s not *from *there. It’s a different continent with a hot desert climate, so of course the people would be swarthier. And wouldn’t any one of us worship the person who freed us from slavery?
That’s not the point. Depicting dark-skinned people worshipping a light-skinned person as their savior is problematic for us in the real world.
Right. I’m talking about the implied racial politics, which is why I didn’t say anything about realism.
I guess that’s a possibility, but I’m still pretty convinced my suspicions are correct. It all fits, anyway. And I know it’s not conclusive, but the subtle “glance” was what really convinced me.
I’m guessing Maergery will very slowly work her visits up to anything else. I’m not sure exactly how hold Tommen is supposed to, but judging by his reactions just talking to Maergery seems like’s it’s enough for him to have to change nightgowns.
No, it was just displayed with his corpse for aesthetic effect during the funeral. It’s Tommen’s now; just like everything else of Joffrey’s now.
Except it’s been firmly established that English is a stand-in for Andalish (aka the Common Tongue of Westeros); everything thing is conlang created just for the show.
I’m going to assume that “White Walker babies” can still grow up into adult White Walkers, otherwise it’s hard to see the point of them.
I don’t think the bride & groom actually consummate the marriage in front of witnesses; they just get delivered naked into the marital bed by them. And it’s an optional part of the wedding.
During the Middle Ages on Earth is wasn’t unheard of for royal couples to consummate the marriage with courtiers just outside the door or behind a curtain; this the sheets being publically displayed the following morning (as proof of both consummation and the bride’s virginity).
I’m confident that the Hound would consider Brienne a cunt, not related to her gender. Even moreso because she named her sword.
To go super-nerdy, she’s Lawful Good. I’m sure the Hound considers everyone Lawful Good to be cunts.
In an utterly irrelevant data point likely of interest only to me, the Hound reminds me of Bruiser Brody more than a little.
Nice to see Hodor artistically stretched.
Oathkeeper? Oathkeeper? bit of a cringe.
Wot, no brothel lineup?
It’s not a documentary of a fictional world. It’s a story. Unless someone makes a point of saying that the graffiti was in Westerosi, then all we know is that we’re meant to understand what it says.
Hang on, a white woman is releasing “dark-skinned” people from their slavery to other white people.
I haven’t seen in GoT a depiction of that resulting in “worshipping”, blondie keeps talking about “freedom” though, with the implication of choice.
Unless you mean ‘worshipping’ in a Napoleonic sense, or something …
Maybe you meant another word.
Continuity problem… the slave freeing scene, they speak Valarean but the word “Kill the Masters” is in English :smack:
While I understand that the message needed to be conveyed to the audience, how about subtitles or having some visual effect of the words changing for our benefit on screen.
Also, Littlefinger just needed to twirl his mustache to be even more cliche in his “evil plans”.
That all being said, loved the show 
Arnold’s main nemesis in the Last Action Hero. Hated by critics but I did not think it was THAT bad (although that kid actor sucked big time).
This is series set in a universe that has ZERO ties to our own. The connection and subsequent burden is your own drawn from your own personal feelings. And while it is certainly your choice to add that bewildering context to a fantasy show, it is not the creators or producers job to give it even a second of thought.