RE: Game of Thrones Season 6 Discussion [SPOILERS WITHIN]
May 23, 2016 at 8:51 am
(This post was last modified: May 23, 2016 at 8:57 am by Homeless Nutter.)
(May 23, 2016 at 7:19 am)pocaracas Wrote: [...]
- I liked skeptical Varys.... although.... having actually seen dragons... well... [...]
Even in a universe, where dragons, magic, or gods exist - there's still going to be bullsh*t, probably even more, than in our reality - precisely because many people have seen weird sh*t of some kind and are therefore more likely to trust a charlatan. And religions, as well as prophecies would seem like a pretty lucrative scam, even in a fantasy world.
It's also worth mentioning, that G.R.R.Martin is anti-war and an atheist/agnostic. Critique of both war and religion is fairly prevalent in his work. Do we really expect, that he will end his Opus Magnum with a worn cliche, like a sexy, violent messiah slaughtering "the bad guys" in a great battle of Good vs Evil, as foreseen by some religious nuts? Even if he does that - it's quite likely not going to be a happy ending. Although that's the books - who knows what TV writers are going to do...
Funnily enough - the show already seems to hint, that prophecies are bullsh*t, although that's likely just a continuity error, stemming from the fact, that many different writers work on this show and they don't necessarily always pay attention to one another's input, while they "improve" on the book.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
