(June 12, 2015 at 12:23 am)Yeauxleaux Wrote: Not sure though, because Dany has had her ruthless moments too. Whether she's a hero or a villain at this point depends, on whether you're a former slave or whether you're the Lannisters and the Baratheons, it's all perspective. That's another thing about Thrones, there are so many central characters and narratives, who are at conflict with eachother, that pretty much everyone is both a hero and a villain at the same time. It's almost impossible not to be both in their world. It's more complex than "us vs them", it's every man for himself (and maybe a couple close friends, but can't trust anyone too much), and everyone has enemies. It's dynamic as well, people who were friends before have become enemies and vice versa.
I think in this sense it's so realistic, because real life is rarely the simplified "us vs them" "good vs evil" trope that dominates popular culture
I agree,
I've even seen good argument made for why the white walker are, in some way, good guys. Everyone and everything is ambiguous.
I hope I live to see how he intends for it to end, because I doubt it will have a traditional holywood happy ending. or even a traditional hollywood sad ending. It's got to break tradition somehow to stay true to the way the stories have been so far.
If he ever finishes the books of course. The TV show might be the only way we ever find the end, and they might whitewash it (I hope not).
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
