HBO's adaptation of Game of Thrones - Thread 2. There are a lot of nerds.

bran the "broken/head over heels/broken"

re: the "big idea" of the show, I think this is taken wholesale from Martin and only halfheartedly followed through on, but I think it's the hoary old conflict between "love" (coded as maternal, feminine, Cersei) and "duty" (coded as paternal, masculine, Ned). What made the "evil" characters interesting was that their actions followed from their concern for protecting loved ones, family, etc. What made the good characters dumb was that they couldn't see through "duty" as either something that is a fig leaf for power or something that makes you vulnerable if you take it too seriously.

Not saying the show does anything interesting with this but they did throw it out there occasionally and stated outright in the final episode if I remember right.

still annoyed that apparently everyone in Westeros thought "Bran the Broken" was a name he'd be cool with.

― omar little, Wednesday, June 26, 2019 12:02 PM (thirty-four minutes ago) Bookmark

i feel like lots of kings have these nicknames but people probably weren't saying it to their faces. like charles the bald or wilfrid the hairy weren't addressed that way i wouldn't have thought

i guess the writers thought it would be an inspiring name of some kind but i mean guys call him Bran the Unbroken, for total symbolic ownage of his broken-ness, this isn't hard.

Bran the Flake

Bran the Halo 05

Bran the Man
Bran, Slam, Thank You Ma'am
Bran-Y-Aur Stomp

Bran Solo
Bran Wrap
Last Train to Brancentral

Bran the Creepy Lil Fucker

Bran the Suspiciously Absent During Battles

Bran Morrison
The A-Team's Bran
Brancakes
Glenn Branca

Suggest Bran for all of you

Bran The Wet Sprocket

you'll never be able to convince your bannermen to FP
xp

PermaBran

Raisin' Bran

Speaking of Breaking Bad, I guess Bryan Cranston just posted something about Aaron Paul that said "soon..." or something, and the radio DJs were going nuts.

Breaking Bran

Random observation when re-watching: for as prominent as Littlefinger was in the all the intrigue of the earlier seasons, it's odd how no one ever remarked on his death. One would think at least Varys would have a comment.

Varys kinda forgot etc

I kinda feel like Bran would not have given six fux what anyone called him as he wasnt really all there anymore anyway.

Bran was basically Dr. Manhattan by the end.

Dr Branhattan obv

I forgot to add
Brantasm

Bran X

Not Bran X

(This is for the 1960s Marvel comics nerds)

High five

Forbush Bran approved

Don't know why anyone would be so keen on always having one concentrated theme/big idea to hang an entire story on. Doesn't work for every kind of story and I'd like to think most writers don't think in this way when writing.

Def didn't do too much thinking with this show, amirite?

Galaxy Bran

Off Bran

Suggest Bran

just suggest branned you dan m

Bran Fart

Jean-Claude Bran Damme

Branson, MO

Branned in DC

Don't know why anyone would be so keen on always having one concentrated theme/big idea to hang an entire story on. Doesn't work for every kind of story and I'd like to think most writers don't think in this way when writing.

overarching themes don't have to be consciously constructed by the writer, the reader draws them out.

Personally I'm not interested in engaging in a work that doesn't have anything to say - where I can't detect any ideas to keep me engaged or interested - where there's just this empty formal exercise going on.

Fans could put any number of overarching themes on Game Of Thrones.

I very much doubt anyone could find a convincing overarching theme for everything they love. They generally end up so vague and general as to be useless.

And it depends what you mean by "something to say" because I generally prefer things that don't have a very deliberate thing to say.

Fans could put any number of overarching themes on Game Of Thrones.

this thread has failed on that count imo

I very much doubt anyone could find a convincing overarching theme for everything they love.

have you never seen a college lit department

something something more like theme park something something.

have you never seen a college lit department
― Οὖτις, Friday, June 28, 2019 10:53 PM

I probably wouldn't find most of the takes convincing or at all useful.

I often find that when people try to describe these type of big ideas behind their favorite thing, they come across a bit dishonest, like they're flattering themselves and describing something very different to the thing they actually enjoyed. Although the big theme doesn't necessarily have to be the thing they enjoyed about it.

don't even know where to start with that...

Let’s just cut to the chase. The big theme tgat everybody loved but refuses to talk about was gratuitous nudity

for me it was the incest

don't forget the raping

sometimes all in the same scene! truly it was a magical era of television.

don't think there was any nudity in series 8? someone should make a graph.