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Originally Posted by IliketoPuck
Re: Timeline for a raven to fly from point A to point B.
Meh.
Every Sunday I suspend my grasp on reality to watch a fantasy show based around dragons, magic, and zombies. The particulars of the physics required for a raven to fly from point A to B are pretty irrelevant in that context.
Willing suspension of disbelief. It's great. You should try it!
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That's your prerogative but it raises the question of why the show was popular in the first place. Game of Thrones was built on its gritty and realistic storytelling. We all understand not everything will be 100% real, but introducing the whole "but there's zombies and dragons therefore nothing needs to make any sense" argument starts to seem like a cop out. Not to mention the fact that taking some liberties with explaining things (that could be easily explained) is fine, but being sloppy when it comes to the storytelling is another. They've definitely sacrificed good story with character motivations and actions that make sense for the sake of cool action scenes and "wow" moments.
In some of the early seasons, they went out of their way to tease big events and then only show us people talking about them after they happened (just like the books did). Literally the exact opposite of what we're getting now. They showed us the character reactions, their plotting, their motivations and their scheming instead of showing us big budget battles.
If you don't care at all for any integrity in the story telling, then you're basically saying that nothing could ever bother you. Or you're saying you have a line, it is just a lot further than ours, which makes you a bit of a hypocrite.
Think about it. What if they decided to just say screw it? Have Jon use his Shinning ability to get Dany's attention and have her jump into a star trek teleporter and beam herself to the Wall or maybe they introduce the idea that Drogon has afterburners and can do mach 2. Then later a dragon eats Thoros' body but he lives inside the dragon like Jonah from the bible. Later when Jon kills the dragon they find Thoros living happily in his belly drinking wine. Maybe they should've shown Melisandre whipping out a defibrillator to resuscitate Jon after he was dead. The Sand Snakes could have been written off the show Poochie style where they just get sucked off screen to get on their spaceship and fly back to their home planet.
But I guess none of that matters because magic, dragons and zombies! All that matters is that it is exciting.
I like this show as much as the next person, but it is hard for me to pretend that they aren't pushing the limits of what I'll reasonably ignore when it comes to poor explanations, weird character motivations for the sake of action and sloppy storytelling.
It is hard not to be reminded of the Mel Gibson/Michael Bay parts of the South Park Imaginationland episodes. "Say what you want about Mel Gibson, but the son of a bitch knows story structure."