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I have been reading the collective works of Shakespeare, its quite a thrilling ride so far. This war of the roses. The political intrigue is off the charts here, but why is everyone basically so retarded? Lancaster vs York basically battle it out and basically almost everyone dies, and yet they still want the throne dont they. They could go "well, pretty much most of my kin has died and this kinda seems silly, some of us even declare war on one another on nearly stupid and trivial things (like warwick switching asides when he king married a thot instead of a french lass that he was sent to fetch), maybe we should just be content with being a duke and I dont know, not just all out go on a murder fest for almost no reason.
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This is why despite the fact that GRR Martin is a part-Jew (surprise!), I still enjoy the deconstruction of the fantasy literary genre in Game of Thrones. As a dilettante historian, I love reading tales like Lord of the Rings but the truth is closer to how you put it: two warlords gather their men to fight each other and everyone loses. The 'dialectic' of history is such that conflict is rarely rational and often mindless.
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Yea, the war of roses is the inspiration of the game of thrones… but comparing both to each-other. I kinda prefer the "vanilla" plot. The curses of Margaret, at the endish of the murder spree. By god. The whole dynamic between the murderers, upcomings and those on the sidelines, and those also getting murdered. I have not seen such things on tv at all.
More people should be really required to read books, movies as such garbage really. There is just so much novel content inside of books.
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[–] 16215355? ago
I have been reading the collective works of Shakespeare, its quite a thrilling ride so far. This war of the roses. The political intrigue is off the charts here, but why is everyone basically so retarded? Lancaster vs York basically battle it out and basically almost everyone dies, and yet they still want the throne dont they. They could go "well, pretty much most of my kin has died and this kinda seems silly, some of us even declare war on one another on nearly stupid and trivial things (like warwick switching asides when he king married a thot instead of a french lass that he was sent to fetch), maybe we should just be content with being a duke and I dont know, not just all out go on a murder fest for almost no reason.
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This is why despite the fact that GRR Martin is a part-Jew (surprise!), I still enjoy the deconstruction of the fantasy literary genre in Game of Thrones. As a dilettante historian, I love reading tales like Lord of the Rings but the truth is closer to how you put it: two warlords gather their men to fight each other and everyone loses. The 'dialectic' of history is such that conflict is rarely rational and often mindless.
[–] 16215370? ago
Yea, the war of roses is the inspiration of the game of thrones… but comparing both to each-other. I kinda prefer the "vanilla" plot. The curses of Margaret, at the endish of the murder spree. By god. The whole dynamic between the murderers, upcomings and those on the sidelines, and those also getting murdered. I have not seen such things on tv at all.
More people should be really required to read books, movies as such garbage really. There is just so much novel content inside of books.