that thorn dress is really cool-looking in detail and everything [god knows how it will read on screen, given their track record] but it really reinforces to me how much of a different narrative the show is telling and what the nature of that difference is? the costumer was going on about how margaery is dangerous so the dress should look dangerous and, like, okay, fair, but:
The bride was lovely in ivory silk and Myrish lace, her skirts decorated with floral patterns picked out in seed pearls. As Renly’s widow, she might have worn the Baratheon colors, gold and black, yet she came to them a Tyrell, in a maiden’s cloak made of a hundred cloth-of-gold roses sewn to green velvet.
i will always feel like the danger of margaery’s character is in her deliberate display of softness and delicacy and the show’s refusal to embrace the contradictions in her self-presentation is. so frustrating to me. and symptomatic of the oversimplification of the narrative’s moral scheme in general. u don’t impress me, show.
#yes yes yes thank you #like it’s good show that you have the basic reading comprehension #to have figured out that margaery is a super dangerous player between all the lines of others’ povs of her #but like #to not include that very performative deceit that you’re so proud of yourself for spotting #in the show itself #is doing the viewers a massive disservice #natalie dormer does brilliantly in showing how margaery can be so charming and beguiling #but the whole; ‘let’s dress her really revealingly to show how she uses her feminine wiles’ #is so wrong #margaery actively preserves and performs her virginity and softness because those are her tools #she doesn’t flaunt her threat-level #that’s the exact opposite of what she does #and that’s why she’s so dangerous #and why cersei hates her so much; because she encompasses and *uses* the westeros ideal of femininity #that cersei has rebelled against and clawed through to get to power #where margaery floats across the top of it all and somehow ends up in the same level of power #so naturally cersei suspects/is sure there’s more there #*but nobody else does* #and that’s why cersei gets more and more paranoid and frustrated about it (okayophelia)
