TMC
11-06-2017, 01:29 AM
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2017/08/23/as_it_nears_its_climax_game_of_thrones_is_falling_apart.html
Jacob Brogan says the show's recent issues — such as the incoherent relationship between time and place — speak to GoT’s (https://www.tvtattle.com/topic/Game-of-Thrones-Q9Ef8M) larger problem: “its inability to find a balance between its complex political maneuverings and the more familiar framework of heroic fantasy. In its early years, the series used the former to undermine the latter’s familiar progression—as it did when it killed off honorable patriarch Ned Stark—but those same tropes now threaten to overwhelm everything that once made the show compelling.”
Jacob Brogan says the show's recent issues — such as the incoherent relationship between time and place — speak to GoT’s (https://www.tvtattle.com/topic/Game-of-Thrones-Q9Ef8M) larger problem: “its inability to find a balance between its complex political maneuverings and the more familiar framework of heroic fantasy. In its early years, the series used the former to undermine the latter’s familiar progression—as it did when it killed off honorable patriarch Ned Stark—but those same tropes now threaten to overwhelm everything that once made the show compelling.”