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dachi-chan25 · 7 years

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Game of Thrones Season 7 Episode 5 Recap Pt. 1

I seriously need to vent about “Eastwatch so bear with me please.

WARNING: SPOILERS; not a D@€n€r¥$ fan; Jonsa shipper so yeah I’m biased af.

Before diving into the recap:

1.- This are only my opinions, humble analysis and random thoughts/musings about the episode, and I am in no form or way trying to convince people I know everything or that I’m absolutely right and whatever other reading is wrong, I actually Love that thing about fandom that everyone sees things in a different way, is fascinating

2.- I’m the literal embodiment of the Salt Throne, and I feel specially salty about this episode so if you are not comfortable with that stuff I highly recommend you not to read this. I will always stay in my lane and I am not closed off to debates as long as you extend the same politeness and respect of course.

3.- My analysis of certain ships/characters is based on what I think and feel as an audience, but in no form or way do I think people shouldn’t ship/like said ship/characters. Believe me on the fact I will always defend the right to love what you love, even my most hated NOTPS are valid and I will always support the shippers and multishippers even if we don’t interact.

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1.- Back on the lake near HG, Bronn and Jaime are fine (I already knew they weren’t going to die but I am glad they don’t even have a scratch) and golden boy is pissed cuz Bronn wasn’t delicate enough during his brave rescue, and Bronn is like yeah but why did you do such a stupid ass thing she has a dragon Jamie a dragon!!!! but our Lannister boy didn’t even cared he was willing to die to get rid of D.

OK, but that was really what a hero would do??He doesn’t know D, and the good things she has done, and we know Jaime is more than flawed, he has done awfull things, and in his mind D is the biggest threat he has ever faced (I mean he is not wrong) and still found the courage to charge at her, he just watched his man die horrible painful deaths (mind you he got PTSD from his time with Aerys right then and there) and instead of fleeing like Bronn suggested he fought and was willing to die just so he could get rid of D… That really makes you think.

Anyway Bronn is like fuck you, you can’t die before you pay me dude! but you’re totally on your own if the Dragon Woman comes to KL xoxo.

I truly love Bronn.

2.- So yeah we’re strolling through the Field of Fire with Tyrion, he looks absolutely horrified (he should) while the Dothraki take swords and weapons form the dead (yikes, can we talk about the lack of humanising of the Dothraki? We only got to know them a lil’ back on s1 and s2 and still they look like terrible people with a ruthless violent culture and no real good redeeming qualities, I mean we don’t even get a lot of depth on any Mereenese, Yunkai or Astapori beyond the ohh wondrous mysha bullshit!! and then we have Dorne, you know the PoC of Westeros, storyline absolutely butchered and thrown to shit, and this actually stinks of racism) anyway we have like what 50? 100? Soldiers and I’m supposed to pat D in the back for not killing everyone??? You kidding me right? There were 10,000 Lannister-Tarly soldiers, she killed ¾ of the army, and yet she dares to say she didn’t came to murder them or orphan their children with the same condecending tone she used for the Meerenese, Astapori and Yunkaii people???? Miss me that bullshit, she had an adavantage from 10-1 there was no FUCKING way the Lannister-Tarlys were going to win, besides if she has the noble pure righteous heart she loves to parrot about she would have given them the chance to yield before she went Dracarys on their asses (you know like Jon Snow did in the BoB telling Ramsey they should have a 1 on 1 so other people wouldn’t die) she should have taken the food, but she didn’t so it would be real nice if she stopped with all those pretty but meaningless speeches that only make her look like a hypocrite (but I totally understand why she doesn’t “if I look back I’m lost” which basically means I’m too lazy and proud to learn from my mistakes and accept my flaws) anyway it all boils down to “bend the knee or die even tho I just said I didn’t came to kill you after I had already killed most of you” and I kid you not, just 5-10 people bent immediately, only when Drogon screeches menacingly at them is that most drop to their knees absolutely terrified (*instert the “this is not freedom, this is fear” meme from Captain America) what kind of choice is this???? No choice at all, is either accept me as your newest overlord or die in the flames (yikes, I never wanted her on the IT but now more than ever).

Other thing that piqued my interest is that she uses her famous line about destroying the wheel, basically this is a medieval equivalent of communism, she says there will be no more powerfull high lords and helpless small folk, okay good, totally support this, but D you seriously need to ask yourself how are you going to manage the transition and if your replacement of this feudalistic system is all the power lies in me, my Dragons and my small council if/when I’m in the mood to actually listen then no fuck you. Communism is something we know, something we’ve seen before (Cuba, Russia, North Korea) and it has failed, even if theoretically it seems the most humanitarian and fair, in practice it has always caused an awful whiplash of tyranny, poverty and opression (history exists guys, and even if Westeros is a fantasy setting, GRRM based a lot of the stuff in ASOIAF in actual historical events) our society was not ready in any form or way for that kind of government and neither is the Westerosi society, but D is not a politician, she is a Queen and therefore she doesn’t care about future problems and consequences ‘til they hit her face and then she whines and complains about it.

Fortunately the Tarlys are having none of that overlord (overlady???) bullshit and will not kneel, is no secret I dislike Randyll Tarly cuz he is ruthless with his soldiers (flogging them for real??) and the way he treated Sam (fuck him) but he has a lot of strenght and dignity, he refuses to kneel because he already chose a side and he would stand by it even if it meant death, he is a hardass motherfucker if anything, Tyrion is like dude you seriously are going to fight for my evil sister? Point is that Cersei and D really give not much of an option do they Tyrion? As a matter of fact this scene is a good parallel to Cersei’s 7x01 one in the IT trash talking D and convincing (tho she is much more diplomatic) the Reach Lords to fight with her, then we see Randyll talk with Jaime and he says he only answered the call cuz he knew what Cersei does with her enemies. Here we have D’s pretty speech about how Cersei is evil and she is clearly the better option while intimidating them with her Dragon and Dothraki.But is the same! even if Cersei is more subtle in her approach. Anywhoo Randyll is like you say whatever you want about Queen C, but she is not a foreign invader with a army of infamous pillagers and rapers and dragons who burnt all the food of the Reach (k I added that last bit cuz I’m salty that no one seems to give a fuck about the food) and I know some people have been saying he sounded racist (he does not) that is not the case at all,every country requests being a citizen (among other things) to occupy a position in the government, because you have to know the country, lived there, care at least a little about it’s people and know them and let them know you, D meets none of this requirements, and yes it’s not her fault, it’s her dad’s and Robert’s that she had to live in exile, but still she has no right to proclaim herself as the better option when she has done nothing to show it.

So Randyll is ready to die, Tyrion wants to save him (I guess to convince himself that he made the right decision in supporting D) and suggests he is sent to the Wall, but Radyll is like nah man she has no authority to make me do shit cuz she ain’t my queen. Dickon (my brave and beautiful, and dumb son) steps out and says he won’t bend the knee also, Randyll and Tyrion collectively lose their shits (bitch me too the fuck) because they don’t want him to die and let house Tarly die with him (this rings to close to Tyrion cuz his evil sis killed the Tyrells and Aerys killed a Rickard and Brandon Stark, how is this any different from what D is doing now?) but D is ruthless and says she already gave them an option, Tyrion is still trying to be like hey how about you don’t start cutting heads off??? and D is like LMAO who said I was beheading them? Tyrion is left speechless (why were you expecting dude?? You watched her burn the army and the food, and she almost burnt your brother and your bff) but really is heartbreaking because he wanted so hard to see the mericful woman he admired and believed in and only sees a tyrant.

So of course I cried, because I played myself living in denial and happily shipping Dicksa (we can’t have nice things, but my ship is not going down, you can’t kill what is already dead!!!!) and beyond that it was heartbreaking seeing Randyll holding his son’s arm and them dying on ther feet. And I was reminded of one of the heroes of the mexican revolution, Emiliano Zapata who once said “I’d rather die on my feet, than live on my knees” what the Tarlys did was a common tragic hero trope.

After the Tarlys get roasted, everyone is on their knees and I would love to slap the satisfaction out of D’s face, because this is awful.

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I rambled far too much so this needs a part 2

#Game of Thrones #7x05 #racap pt 1 #anti daenerys #just to be safe #dachi rambles

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mdye · 7 years

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"What does it mean that the lout in the white house got there despite boasting about his sexual misdeeds while two fox news misogynists behind his rise have now been brought down by theirs i don rsquo t know but it vexes me perhaps culture rides ahead of politics nonetheless let s celebrate the end of the career of bill o rsquo reilly bully alleged serial sexual harasser and creepy hypocrite who preached against sexual liberation gender equality and racial justice while possibly harassing an entire rainbow generation of women together o rsquo reilly and his former boss roger ailes created a white patriarchal television oasis for the aging holdouts against a rapidly diversifying america one where white men were again safely in charge and women even talented ones were for decoration most of them leggy blonde and deferential the two shaped a paranoid right wing political culture that demanded the creation of a character like ldquo president donald trump rdquo ndash even if ailes was said to be anxious about his creature rsquo s rise in the gop last year and o rsquo reilly supportive while also a bit condescending and paternalistic sometimes seemed jealous of him but ailes is gone and today o rsquo reilly is getting the door slammed on his ass fox finally dumped them both after spending tens of millions of dollars paying the multiple women who came forth with accounts of harassment including the latest mdash an african american clerical worker who says o reilly called her quot hot chocolate quot and would never speak to her except to grunt at her like a wild boar but even as we mark o rsquo reilly rsquo s downfall let rsquo s grapple with the damage he s done in greasing a path to the white house for trump of course but also in the lives of individual people in the culture of bullying and violence he leaves behind i rsquo ve faced a lot of criticism even abuse on social media over the years but the only time i was genuinely afraid for my own safety and my daughter rsquo s was after i debated o rsquo reilly in june 2009 about the murder of dr george tiller mdash lutheran deacon husband father grandfather and abortion provider mdash in the hallway of his wichita kansas church o rsquo reilly had trashed tiller usually as ldquo tiller the baby killer rdquo in 29 segments of the o rsquo reilly factor over four years i rsquo d suggested on msnbc that o rsquo reilly ought to ask whether his violent rhetoric might have contributed to tiller rsquo s murder he had said that tiller ldquo destroys fetuses for just about any reason right up until the birth date for 5 000 rdquo was guilty of ldquo nazi stuff rdquo and that anyone who prevented the state of kansas from stopping tiller ldquo has blood on their hands quot i stupidly went on o rsquo reilly rsquo s show to defend myself i rsquo m just going to leave the link here i just watched it for the first time in seven years and it was still harrowing his mounting rage plus the repetition that i had blood on my hands too at the time at first it was all in a day rsquo s work for me mdash i rsquo ve debated a lot of misogynists on msnbc then the emails poured in and the snail mail too many men had violent suggestions as to what i might do with myself they had many creative ways to dispense with me and with my daughter too that was my first experience with the underground of men who were mobilizing against women rsquo s freedom all of them apparently galvanized by the election of barack obama which made little sense unless you knew the history of racist misogyny that came together in fear of miscegenation in the 19th century there was new danger on the loose i had noticed the guns at obama rallies i had seen a black man murdered by a white supremacist at the holocaust museum in washington d c i had heard about the pittsburgh police shootings by a white supremacist whose friends told reporters ldquo rich like myself loved glenn beck rdquo the obama hating fox host who rose to right wing glory that year i had written about all of it but it had never before been aimed at me nothing happened i lived mdash thrived in fact as did my daughter but nothing acquaints you with the notion that your ideas are more than just intellectually dangerous than people telling you they want to hurt you i did have to learn that what i got weren rsquo t ldquo death threats rdquo in order for something to be a death threat i was told they have to say they intend to kill you not merely that they want you dead the powers that be at twitter have essentially told me the same thing when i report violent tweets to them but still tweets of violence don rsquo t feel as threatening as either email to your personal inbox or snail mail to your office no one ever wrote these threats to my home for which i am grateful and as i write that i realize i rsquo m wanting to minimize the threat i felt or should have felt at the time i didn rsquo t calm myself by saying none of this violent male mail came to my home at the time i was scared my friends told me to call the police and alert them instead i went on vacation to arizona where my daughter worried at the airport ldquo mom this is a sort of conservative state do you think someone will recognize you rdquo no one did there are a lot of democrats in arizona too and not all republicans are o rsquo reilly reactionaries and even of those very few of them are violent still i stayed a little bit on alert that week here i am almost eight years later if i didn rsquo t have plans tonight i rsquo d go celebrate outside of fox news in midtown i can observe however that the aforementioned glenn beck hung on to his show at fox spewing poison to retirees at 5 pm even after advertisers ditched him because alleged serial sexual harasser roger ailes did not want to give his critics the satisfaction of seeing beck canned mdash until he finally had to can him the murdochs took one look mdash or maybe two mdash at their loss of more than 50 major advertisers plus more sexual harassment complaints we should acknowledge and concluded that o rsquo reilly rsquo s april vacation should be permanent ailes protected o rsquo reilly too of course i rsquo ll never forget the night salon rsquo s beloved executive editor gary kamiya came out of his office reading the deposition of former o rsquo reilly employee andrea mackris about the loofahs and the falafels and o rsquo reilly rsquo s abhorrent abuse mdash until we told him to write it up as a story and i was the one who had to read it to him in 2004 we didn rsquo t have scanners or any way to just lift the passages from the smoking gun i still won rsquo t use a loofah so we have been watching this serial misogynist and alleged sexual harasser this angry white patriarch for a long long time ailes protected him even after he dumped beck even after gawker revealed o rsquo reilly had lost custody of his children when his ex wife showed evidence that his son and daughter watched him drag her downstairs by the throat mdash and understandably the kids didn rsquo t want to spend time with him anymore ailes dumped beck but o rsquo reilly got to stay it rsquo s clear there was a double standard beck lost his show because his overall crazy hurt the brand but o rsquo reilly rsquo s angry white man shtick mdash including his abuse of women and children mdash in fact was the brand now the younger murdochs are trying to change the brand and they are about to cut o rsquo reilly loose political activists outside and to their credit women inside fox have made both this and ailes rsquo s departure happen the ever knowing fox chronicler gabriel sherman at new york magazine had earlier reported that rupert murdoch and his son lachlan were against dumping o rsquo reilly while lachlan rsquo s brother james wanted the high rating bully to cease darkening the doors of 21st century fox but now sherman reports ldquo lachlan murdoch rsquo s wife helped convince her husband that o rsquo reilly needed to go which moved lachlan into james rsquo s corner rdquo so women have prevailed against o rsquo reilly and earlier against ailes we failed to stop trump mdash especially we white women as i rsquo ve mourned since november 9 trump must be next but for now let rsquo s celebrate the departure of his enablers trump now has power ailes and o rsquo reilly never did but women mdash and men of conscience mdash now know what the stakes are o rsquo reilly taught some of us the hard way but many of us have learned from those lessons let rsquo s make sure we all take in the danger of the white male patriarchal paradise ailes and o rsquo reilly created so we can make sure trump can rsquo t spread it beyond the confines of one loathsome cable channel Keep on reading: Bye-bye Bill O’Reilly

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