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sumi - May 01, 2011 5:09:03 pm PDT #3406 of 7329
Art Crawl!!!
erikaj - May 02, 2011 4:48:54 am PDT #3407 of 7329
Always Anti-fascist!
Treme: I felt like that could/should have been the opener. Last week, the tone seemed off...although Simon himself wrote this one. Being the creator, it'd make sense he'd have the most dominant vision.
sumi - May 02, 2011 5:29:51 am PDT #3408 of 7329
Art Crawl!!!
Ah, that does make sense.
Who was the actor playing the father of the murdered man who went to Toni for answers? He looked so familiar.
erikaj - May 02, 2011 5:37:47 am PDT #3409 of 7329
Always Anti-fascist!
I had the same thought, but I couldn't place him. I will probably watch it again, though, so I can blog about it(obsession is srs business) Poor Toni...off on another body hunt. She may come to look upon getting Davis out of scrapes rather fondly. Did not know Mrs. Antoine 2.0 taught school.
sumi - May 02, 2011 6:00:20 am PDT #3410 of 7329
Art Crawl!!!
Neither did I!
But that is another good POV to have about the recovery.
erikaj - May 02, 2011 6:28:50 am PDT #3411 of 7329
Always Anti-fascist!
There are so many people, and actively introducing them seems to bring on hives over at Blown Deadline, that I'm not sure if they ever told us that before, and I forgot, or if Simon's pissed about public employees getting screwed and gave us a schoolteacher. Yeah, I think it's a good development.ETA: I am so arrogant...telling writers worth ten of me where to start their shit. I was in a magazine once, you know. But the opener *was* heavier than usual.
sumi - May 02, 2011 6:45:22 am PDT #3412 of 7329
Art Crawl!!!
GoT - back to the Winter is Coming conversation:
"the Starks are always right eventually"
§ ita § - May 02, 2011 6:31:17 pm PDT #3413 of 7329
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Dany's marriage night on the show--definite rape. In the books, do you think GRRM meant to convey consent issues?
erin_obscure - May 02, 2011 9:30:57 pm PDT #3414 of 7329
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
In the book she wasn't unwilling...just scared. And the willingness was a matter of expectation - she always knew that her primary role in life was to bear royal children. To whoever her brother married her to (or to him, as per their family history.) So "consent" is fuzzy in an environment where girls are property, married off for political reasons, and expected to bear their husbands children as quickly and frequently as possible. Dunno if it was in the TV show, but in the books Viserys makes some comment to her about how he could give her to every male in the kalasar if he felt like it, she should be glad she was only being sold to the Khal himself. I don't imagine a woman raised with those sort of expectations would ever consider refusing.
eta: perhaps also worth noting that in the book she is 13 when married, so everything that happens to her is rape in our sense. The actress looks young and innocent, but not THAT young.
Theodosia - May 03, 2011 1:48:34 am PDT #3415 of 7329
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
What erin said. And the line about giving her to every male in the khalasar and their horses was in the show, too. In the mindsets of both Daenerys and Drogo, what happened wasn't rape. Doesn't mean we shouldn't be repelled....
Loved the Tyrion and Jon Snow Show, and kind of wish we got the kind of story where they have wacky adventures together. (Notes to self that the slogan is Winter is Coming, not Wackiness Ensues.)