It's funny though bc @DouthatNYT's weird project-y take on GoT gets one major thing right about the show (or at least the book series)...
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It DOES deliberately stoke our longing for certainty, and the power that establishes certainty.
A power that is explicitly embodied in trueborn male heirs, most importantly Nedd and Robb Stark.
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But because of the stature of the work of art that it is, rather than merely demolish the old order and make us long for its return...
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it instead REPRESENTS what it's like in a world where all the old certainties have died off. It glorifies (and should at the end kill off)
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