{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "What do you think about what's going on with Game of Thrones? Or should I wait and ask this in a week?", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/184864605873/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> asked: What do you think about what's going on with Game of Thrones? Or should I wait and ask this in a week?</div>\n<p>Well running on <a href=\"/post/72815749147/\" target=\"_blank\">my longstanding theory that</a> the story is supposed to be a critique of the audience and their naive understanding of power politics and the way they expect it to be validated in fiction, all by way of a critique of the characters they identify with</p><p>It\u2019s hard to miss that Dany was like, the good multicultural I Care R2P Yass Queen leader who assembled a multinational coalition for an overseas expedition to depose a cruel and halfassed ruler<br/></p><p>And in the end an arrogant sense of her own power and an airpower-first force structure leads to a campaign of overkill that completely crushes the existing regime amid massive civilian casualties, with absolutely no reason to believe this will lead to a friendly, less cruel, or even minimally functional regime replacing it<br/></p>"}