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@raphael_baeyens @AriochIV @fandompulse Different book series, though from what I recall despite how happy that series is, it still has the best Targ prince getting his head caved in as a reward for doing the right thing and helping Dunk. Ohh George just couldn’t help himself.

@sifth1 @AriochIV @fandompulse so you really believe grrm is nihilistic and doesnt want good characters to succeed? have you read the tales of Duncan the Tall ? it's a story about a hedge knight becoming a kingsguard. it's a pretty classic feel good story. doesnt it contradict your theory about grrm ?

George R.R. Martin explains how his Game of Thrones characters wielding power badly is his answer to Tolkien: "Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord of the Rings had a very medieval philosophy: that if the king was a good man, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it’s not that simple. Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the question: What was Aragorn’s tax policy? Did he maintain a standing army? What did he do in times of flood and famine? And what about all these orcs? By the end of the war, Sauron is gone but all of the orcs aren’t gone – they’re in the mountains. Did Aragorn pursue a policy of systematic genocide and kill them? Even the little baby orcs, in their little orc cradles? Real-life kings had real-life problems to deal with. Just being a good guy was not the answer. You had to make hard, hard decisions. Sometimes what seemed to be a good decision turned around and bit you in the ass; it was the law of unintended consequences. I’ve tried to get at some of these in my books. My people who are trying to rule don’t have an easy time of it. Just having good intentions doesn’t make you a wise king." What do you think Tolkien would have thought about such comments?

@raphael_baeyens @AriochIV @fandompulse I'll make it simple, a hero defeating a villain and it not coming back to bite them in the ass, 500 pages later. In the few times when George gives a hero a win, it usually ends up being a bad thing down the line.

@sifth1 @AriochIV @fandompulse how would you define a win in the context of the books ?

@raphael_baeyens @AriochIV @fandompulse George doesn't believe in good defeating evil, he only seems to believe in worse evil defeating evil, which is very nihilistic.

@sifth1 @AriochIV @fandompulse what is your point ? good characters always get punished ? i've shown you how bad characters also get punished. you said it didnt matter because they got killed by also bad people... so it would only be valid if they were killed by good characters ? your logic doesnt make sense

@raphael_baeyens @AriochIV @fandompulse Read all of these books like 5 times; in my 20's these were like my favorite novels in the world. Now that I'm a bit older I've realized that George truly seems to hate good people.

@raphael_baeyens @AriochIV @fandompulse Tyrion is a rapist; he’s a horrible person. A grey character possibly, but certainly not a good one. Oberyn dies and still fails to kill Gregor because he comes back stronger than ever. Joff is killed by Littlefinger. I think you missed my point and only proved me right.

@sifth1 @AriochIV @fandompulse tywin dies by the hands of tyrion, who is a morally good character. the mountain died because of oberyn's poison. joffrey was collectively hated by the entire realm because of his actions. i think you're missing the point here. it's not good vs evil, it's just human nature.

@raphael_baeyens @AriochIV @fandompulse Every character you mentioned dies by the hands or actions of another villain. The only exception being Gregor and even he manages to kill Oberyn so it’s very much not a case of good wining over evil. As I said before George does not like giving morally good people wins.

@sifth1 @AriochIV @fandompulse joffrey dies because of his wanton cruelty . tywin died as a result for the hatred towards his son. the mountain actually became a zombie after sessions of excruciating pain. the man who chopped off jaime's hand got tortured and died. it's not limited to good characters.

@MiaForTrump The one who deported one of my students. Screw that guy.

Who do you think was the worst U.S. president? A. Bill Clinton B. Barack Obama C. Joe Biden D. Donald Trump Vote below 👇

@raphael_baeyens @AriochIV @fandompulse Rather funny how most of the bad guys almost never make these so called bad choices. In fact more often than not Gorge’s villains are killed by other villains. The man is so nihilistic he refuses to give his hero’s major wins, unless it bites them in ass down the line.

@sifth1 @AriochIV @fandompulse if anything, it's more about cause and effect. choices and consequences. good characters often die because they dont understand/care about political reality (ned stark for example), yet others who are more well informed (and good) survive and navigate through it, like tyrion.

@kmbsolo When you only have 50 people in your species left you can’t afford to be a bigot.

Le fait que les viltrumites soient de véritables pourritures mais qu’il y ai zéro racisme chez eux c’est fort

@raphael_baeyens @AriochIV @fandompulse Yet he has a track record for punishing the good characters and rewarding the horrible ones. He apparently views good as being dumb, at least in the first 5 books.

@AriochIV @fandompulse i dont think that's an accurate statement. his planned last 2 novels are meant to end the series. I dont think grrm is nihilistic, since there are actual good characters in his novels (ned stark is the closest equivalent to aragorn for example).

@fandompulse Yet the economy in Gorge’s word makes no sense as well. The Hound was just able to travel around with 40,000 pieces of gold, wtf

@nocontextnvncbl Translation “We have too many guys on the show”.

Robert Kirkman explains why he gender swaps Tech Jacket in the INVINCIBLE series: "When it came time to introduce Tech Jacket, I realized that if we had brought him straight to comics, he’d be very similar to Mark. We decided early on that it would be interesting to gender swap this character. We started thinking about who Zoe would be instead of Zach. There are some exciting things that come up when you change that character. The vibrancy of that character and the energy that she brings is so much more affecting coming from Zoey Deutch. She’s just a really, really cool character that we’re having a ton of fun with."

@trucker_st5734 @MykhailoRohoza No

Arnold Schwarzenegger sharply criticized the President of the United States, Donald Trump, calling him a “failed leader” and predicting that history will judge his presidency negatively. In a blunt statement, Schwarzenegger said that Trump would be remembered as the worst president in U.S. history and suggested that his legacy would quickly fade. “You are a failed leader. History will record that you are the worst president in the history of America. But the good thing is that you will soon be forgotten, like an old tweet,” Schwarzenegger said.

@smellymittens @fandompulse I rather no Star Trek than bad Star Trek.

@fandompulse Except that now, because of all the whinny little star trek, man-babies, there will be no new trek in production. No movies, no tv shows, No nothing. Maybe everyone will begin to appreciate what they have while they still have it.

Project Hail Mary writer Andy Weir savages modern Star Trek after they rejected his pitch: “I pitched a Star Trek show to Paramount and I was in Zoom with the showrunners with all the shows and spent a lot of time talking to [executive producer Alex Kurtzman]. I don’t like a lot of the new Trek. He, as a person, is a really nice guy. But at the same time, those shows are shit. He is a nice guy. But they didn’t accept my pitch so, you know, fuck ’em.” Should they have hired him instead of green lighting Starfleet Academy?

@CaptainJackYT @fandompulse I heard the interview, and he’s right.

@fandompulse Source for this comment? Closest I can find for Weir talking about trek was 2017…?

Project Hail Mary Writer Andy Weir on Modern Star Trek: "All modern science fiction tv shows and movies have been heavily influenced by the original Star Trek... except for the current batch of Star Trek shows." Do you agree with him?

@vincius_aguiar @dbabyadams You act like people on your side of the fence don't do the exact same thing. I don't see a whole lot of white people in Black Panther or Sinners. The token ones you do, are either evil or idiots, lol

@dbabyadams Parem de encher o saco, esses livros têm representatividade quase ausente porque a escritora é uma puta de uma transfóbica. A HBO está adaptando pra ter um pouco de diversidade, já que a transfóbica quase esqueceu de incluir negros na obra original.

POLÊMICA 🚨 D'Baby Adams, a titã fundadora do teatro britânico NÃO POUPA seu inglês e DETONA escalação de Paapa Essiedu como Severus Snape: — “A escalação de Essiedu é um exercício fascinante de anacronismo visual. Snape não é apenas um personagem; é uma paleta de cores. Sua essência reside na palidez cadavérica, no contraste doentio com o preto absoluto, uma estética quase gótica de privação e sombra. Tentar emular essa 'aura de morcego' em um homem negro não é inclusão, é preguiça intelectual da HBO. Eles sacrificam a precisão do cânone visual em prol de uma virtude performática que, no fim, anula a própria mística do personagem. Snape precisava de um rosto que parecesse nunca ter visto o sol; dar a ele o brilho e a melanina de Paapa é como tentar pintar um quadro de Caravaggio usando luz de neon. É tecnicamente incoerente.”

@westerosies Why, Aegon’s Conquest was very one sided in the book.

Two rival versions of ‘AEGON’S CONQUEST’ are in the works at Warner Bros., and HBO. • Dune-sized feature film from Beau Willimon (Andor, House of Cards) • TV series from Mattson Tomlin (The Batman II, Terminator: Zero) (source: hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-n…)

@DiscussingFilm Notice how no one is calling this review bombing.

‘SCREAM 7’ is now the lowest rated film in the franchise on Rotten Tomatoes with 43%.

@cloudscloudnine So you’re evil?

this is how i treat my boyfriend