Hear me out, it's same reason why "if there was time travel, should you kill baby Hitler" is neither an important question nor a real dilemma. It may seem like a stretch from fantasy dragons to history, but it's not. The implicit structure with which we tell our stories matters.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted codyb
I resisted making the title “Why Game of Thrones Explains Baby Hitler.”
Barely. But that is what it’s about! Also Facebook.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Aaron Hertzmann
That is indeed true, and why all this matters. Our most popular storytelling is, for the most part, confined to a very narrow lane—fiction or nonfiction, dragons or Facebook. Game of Thrones broke out for a while, before sinking back into the limited genre.https://twitter.com/AaronHertzmann/status/1129404350139326464 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Randall Harp
Thank you! Yep, this lack of sociological imagination in storytelling is a bigger problem than one show. That's why it's worth discussing even if you don't care about this one genre—the storytelling method dominates everywhere from journalism to fiction.https://twitter.com/reharp/status/1129431954405953538 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Laura E. Hall
Yep, it was. Until they ran ahead of the novels and turned back to the more common storytelling structures which leave a lot of analysis on the table. (Also, they apparently suck at that form, too, but I digress).https://twitter.com/lauraehall/status/1129465570833788928 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Onur Altındağ
That’s my thesis right there.https://twitter.com/quoting_marx/status/1129516967247962113 …
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Onur Altındağ @ronuraltindagIf your all time favorite show is The Wire, you never liked the Hollywood productions but were surprised how much you initially enjoyed watching The#GoT and now you are really disappointed yet can't quite figure out why: let@zeynep take your hand. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-real-reason-fans-hate-the-last-season-of-game-of-thrones/?redirect=1# …Show this thread2 replies 16 retweets 132 likesShow this thread -
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Yeah, I actually wanted to write about why we are getting the technological transition/critique story mostly wrong. Not that the individuals don't matter, but there is so much more than them to this moment. https://twitter.com/atschrag/status/1129731154821701634 …
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So I will watch the
#GOT finale but haha it will be hilarious if there is some deep sociological current that is explained only in the final episode that ties everything together in brilliant fashion. Keyser Söze seeing dead people, something something very sociological haha.3 replies 5 retweets 88 likesShow this thread -
In case anyone is missing the soooo very subtle point of Daenerys and her troops.
#gameofthrones Very subtle.pic.twitter.com/zMks6puyvs
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But, but dragon fire can't melt iron thrones. (aka
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TBH the blackbody color temperature of dragonfire does not match its thermal effects. It was an inside job!
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