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GAME OF THRONES 4.01, Two Swords
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i kknow like literally winter apocalypse is coming but im swinging my feet begging goerge to let jon and sansa flirt a little bit.....they are both...so fucking funny...please 'do you dance often at the wall?' 'whenever we have a wedding.' CUNTTTTTT 'What will you name the babe?' she asked. 'Cinnamon if she's a girl? Cloves if he's a boy?' That almost made him stumble.' bitccchhhh <3 i think winds should just be jon and sansa murmuring little side commentaries to each other laughing into their cups to disguise the fact they are having so much fun disclosing their inner most thoughts to someone after 5 books of keeping their cutting judgmental barbs all to themselves
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I see posts go by periodically about how modern audiences are impatient or unwilling to trust the creator. And I agree that that's true. What the posts almost never mention, though, is that this didn't happen in a vacuum. Audiences have had their patience and trust beaten out of them by the popular media of the past few decades.
J J Abrams is famous for making stories that raise questions he never figures out how to answer. He's also the guy with some weird story about a present he never opened and how that's better than presents you open--failing to see that there's a difference between choosing not to open a present and being forbidden from opening one.
You've got lengthy media franchises where installments undo character development or satisfying resolutions from previous installments. Worse, there are media franchises with "trilogies" that are weird slap fights between the makers of each installment.
You've got wildly popular TV shows that end so poorly and unsatisfyingly that no one speaks of them again.
On top of that, a lot of the media actively punishes people for engaging thoughtfully with it. Creators panic and change their stories if the audience properly reacts to foreshadowing. Emotional parts of storytelling are trampled by jokes. Shocking the audience has become the go to, rather than providing a solid story.
Of course audiences have gotten cynical and untrusting! Of course they're unwilling to form their own expectations of what's coming! Of course they make the worst assumptions based on what's in front of them! The media they've been consuming has trained them well.
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i dont think you get it. 1980 was twenty years ago. 1990 was 10 years ago. 2000 was 10 years ago. 2016 was two years ago. 2018 was also two years ago. 2017 was last year. 2014 was four years ago. do you understand me now?????
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Winter Rose: A Stark Maiden
There is a misconception that the blue winter rose is a symbol solely for Lyanna and Jon's parentage.
"North or south, singers always find a ready welcome, so Bael ate at Lord Stark's own table, and played for the lord in his high seat until half the night was gone. The old songs he played, and new ones he'd made himself, and he played and sang so well that when he was done, the lord offered to let him name his own reward. 'All I ask is a flower,' Bael answered, 'the fairest flower that blooms in the gardens o' Winterfell.' Now as it happened the winter roses had only then come into bloom, and no flower is so rare nor precious. So the Stark sent to his glass gardens and commanded that the most beautiful o' the winter roses be plucked for the singer's payment. And so it was done. But when morning come, the singer had vanished . . . and so had Lord Brandon's maiden daughter. Her bed they found empty, but for the pale blue rose that Bael had left on the pillow where her head had lain." (Jon VI, ACOK)
The "winter rose" is symbolic of the Stark maiden, not the child of the Stark maiden and Bael the Bard. Lyanna is the winter rose of the previous generation, but the winter rose is symbolic of the Stark maiden of every generation. As @julibf has noted, the chapter that Sansa gets her first "flowering" follows the chapter where Ygritte tells Jon about the song of the Rose of Winterfell.
"The blood is the seal of your womanhood. Lady Catelyn might have prepared you. You've had your first flowering, no more." [...] "So now you are a woman. Do you have the least idea of what that means?" "It means that I am now fit to be wedded and bedded," said Sansa, "and to bear children for the king." (Sansa IV, ACOK)
Like many things in ASOIAF, symbols extend beyond one thing. The (winter) rose of Winterfell is (any) Lord Stark's maiden daughter.
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Fun Fact! If your audience has successfully figured out your twists and ending, congratulations!!! That means your content makes sense.
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When the direwolves are depicted as just a little bit bigger than regular wolves I always feel bamboozled.
What do you mean you aren’t making them as big as a horse, you coward?