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Why We Love
Game Of Thronesby Faith Swick
It’s the best “world-building” there is
• Adult audience: it is meant to
keep you on your toes to follow
all the plot lines and innuendos
• The show is complex meaning
it engages you cognitively
• Wether you like it or not you are
emotionally invested in what
happens next
It’s ridiculously smart: Your brain
has no choice but to stay engaged
• It is arguably superior to all
other shows in both plot and
language
• So smart, that it can be hard to
follow
• Basically it works our brains,
and your brain likes that
Other organs get a workout too…
• There’s sex, violence, jack-in-
the-box moments, and gushing
internal organs
• sexposition has become a
hallmark for the show. Basically
this supposedly forces people
to pay attention to essential plot
explanation through the
nakedness.
You can’t bank on what’s to come
• The simultaneously best and
worst part about the show is
that just when you think you
see a thread, the show proves
you wrong.
• Central characters are killed,
psychopaths claim power, and
weddings become bloodbaths
• These twists and turns give us
awesome dopamine rushes
that keep us coming back for
more
The concept of “good” and
“bad" become blurred
• Except for a handful of truly wicked
people -Joffrey Baratheon- even
the best characters are flawed and
even the worst have something
redeeming
• the characters’ actions can be so
unpredictable that it forces us to
give up trying to decide who’s a
good guy and who’s a bad guy
• These grey, unknowable
characters are maybe more
accurate representations of the
world today
Archetypes used wisely
• conniving queens, ruthless
kings, valiant knights…
• the show sets up a number of
classic archetypes, and plays
with them in extremely clever
ways
• Called “The Imp” or “The Half
Man,” Tyrion is supremely
intelligent and possessing of a
quick, biting wit. He is very much
an embodiment of the Trickster
archetype seen in mythic
storytelling throughout history
around the world.
The Women
• Female characters might be
even more diverse than the
male characters
• They must all learn to use their
wits to maneuver and
manipulate the more powerful
men around them
• the tomboy, the spoiled
princess, the conniving queen,
the loving mother, the witch, the
warrior, prostitutes, and lots of
others
The show uses “medieval” fantasy
to point out modern-day reality
• One of the best examples of
modern-day metaphor in the show is
the Wall
• It’s designed to keep out others. It’s
an effective metaphor for the United
States’ own undocumented
immigrant issue. Just like Westeros,
the U.S. is debating whether its
southern borders should be sealed
by larger and ever more restrictive
walls as more and more foreigners
are attempting to breach it
• This is just one of many modern day
connections
Works Cited
• http://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2014/07/08/dee
per-than-swords-10-reasons-were-so-addicted-to-game-
of-thrones/
• images from google
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9Bo89m2f6g