Post by Leo of Red Keep on Aug 13, 2017 9:27:25 GMT
Preston Jacobs makes a few critical observations on the glorifying of violence in his latest video about The Spoils Of War.
He seems to think the writers are not close enough to the pacifist message of the book series:
While I do not disagree, it is still too early to expect all characters to have reached the consequences of their journey.
This is especially true of Daenerys and Arya.
The show, very much like the books, mixes points of view and glorifies violence when characters who do take action. When Daenerys turns up on Drogon, you hear that elating, glorifying music because that's what's on her mind at that moment. Then the focus moves to Bronn scrambling in the middle of burning or fighting people and the mood changes at once because it's his point of view the show is presenting. Daenerys and her crew think she's right, so they make them feel right when she's wreaking havoc on her chosen targets or murdering emissaries under a flag of truce as in S6E09. Tyrion's mood has changed upon witnessing the battle. We understand he has started to turn.
Arya is still happy about murdering people because she hasn’t come to see the price of it, so this is the tone her scenes have when she’s doing it. It doesn’t mean it won’t catch up with her by the end of the series. We’re not there yet.
This duality of views is intended. Viewers still have to sort it out themselves and it is actually quite smart. Better than hitting them on the head with a monotone message, the show still allows them to err on all sides.
He seems to think the writers are not close enough to the pacifist message of the book series:
While I do not disagree, it is still too early to expect all characters to have reached the consequences of their journey.
This is especially true of Daenerys and Arya.
The show, very much like the books, mixes points of view and glorifies violence when characters who do take action. When Daenerys turns up on Drogon, you hear that elating, glorifying music because that's what's on her mind at that moment. Then the focus moves to Bronn scrambling in the middle of burning or fighting people and the mood changes at once because it's his point of view the show is presenting. Daenerys and her crew think she's right, so they make them feel right when she's wreaking havoc on her chosen targets or murdering emissaries under a flag of truce as in S6E09. Tyrion's mood has changed upon witnessing the battle. We understand he has started to turn.
Arya is still happy about murdering people because she hasn’t come to see the price of it, so this is the tone her scenes have when she’s doing it. It doesn’t mean it won’t catch up with her by the end of the series. We’re not there yet.
This duality of views is intended. Viewers still have to sort it out themselves and it is actually quite smart. Better than hitting them on the head with a monotone message, the show still allows them to err on all sides.
