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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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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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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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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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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That’s my thesis right there.https://twitter.com/quoting_marx/status/1129516967247962113 …
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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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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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Another Emmy to Dinklage. Maybe the whole cast? (Except the one who stares into the distance all the time! Maybe he's a great actor, too, but who knows? No role till the end.) Breathtaking visuals. Stunning use of music. Someone tell me why they had a Night King at all? ktxbye.
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Groan to realizing that they left all the young Stark stories open for endless sequels. First botch the final season because they are in a rush to ruin whatever can still be ruined for Star Wars, and then will give CSI:GenericTown feels onto whatever interesting came before.
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I've been getting this question a lot. I do have some suggestions but thinking of crowdsourcing this. What's your favorite novel/film/drama/fiction that does a good job telling the sociological story? Rich characters but situated in their time and place.https://twitter.com/jbishdope/status/1131358808553295872 …
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