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Why are the seasons so weird in the show and why are the people so backward?
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Originally posted by psl1 View PostWithout any connection to the real world , It serves little purpose, but to occupy time."A society grows great when old men plant trees, the shade of which they know they will never sit in. Good people do things for other people. That's it, the end." -- Penelope Wilton in Ricky Gervais's After Life
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Originally posted by DigiFluid View PostHi, welcome to "fiction."
Why change the seasons at all?
Life in the medieval world was absolutely horrible unless you were some one of power. Even then if winter lasts long enough; most plant life will die off as will most large animal life and then the population that depends on that will die off in massed starvation.Last edited by psl1; 17 April 2013, 05:09 PM.SGU. Best Sci-fi show to come along in decades.
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Originally posted by psl1 View PostYes but like it or not, all writers draw from their real life experiences to write and say something. So it is important to explore what the medium of 'fantasy fiction' brings to his story.
Why change the seasons at all?
Life in the medieval world was absolutely horrible unless you were some one of power. Even then if winter lasts long enough; most plant life will die off as will most large animal life and then the population that depends on that will die off in massed starvation.sigpic
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Originally posted by psl1 View PostYes but like it or not, all writers draw from their real life experiences to write and say something.
Writing never, ever has to "say something." People read and write for pleasure every bit as much--if not more than--to climb up on the proverbial soapbox."A society grows great when old men plant trees, the shade of which they know they will never sit in. Good people do things for other people. That's it, the end." -- Penelope Wilton in Ricky Gervais's After Life
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Originally posted by DigiFluid View PostThat's a lie perpetuated by high school English teachers.
Writing never, ever has to "say something." People read and write for pleasure every bit as much--if not more than--to climb up on the proverbial soapbox.sigpic
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Originally posted by Gen. Chris View PostExactly. I'm a firm believer in that if a writer says that the curtains were blue...he didn't mean that to reflect his inner sadness or some bs like that. He meant that the curtains were freaking blue.SGU. Best Sci-fi show to come along in decades.
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All life will not die every winter....hasn't for thousands of years. Heck, even on this planet all life didn't die during the ice ages. In the GoT world, those that can migrate where it's warmer.
If you look at life forms on this world, we have animals with antifreeze in their blood so that they can live in the antarctic year round. LIfe is persistent.
A person can't make this fictional world be 'normal' any more than they can hold VUlcan or Dagobah or Bespin to earth standards. Look at the giant space slug in Star Wars, applying 'earth' standards, that critter shouldn't be able to exist in a vacuum, but it did.
It's FICTION. Thus 'reality' is whatever the author decides reality is.
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Then this is exactly where the suspension of disbelief dies....oh while life may live on- civilization [as we know it] would collapse and only raise again based on invention and innovation; but that’s a human thing. Then there’s ‘Nuclear Winter’ or E.L.E.
If the world is all in winter for 10 years, where is life going to migrate to?SGU. Best Sci-fi show to come along in decades.
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Originally posted by psl1 View PostThen this is exactly where the suspension of disbelief dies....oh while life may live on- civilization [as we know it] would collapse and only raise again based on invention and innovation; but that’s a human thing. Then there’s ‘Nuclear Winter’ or E.L.E.
If the world is all in winter for 10 years, where is life going to migrate to?Unmade Plans (WIP: 11/20):
Sam's life takes a turn in an unexpected direction when she's faced with an unplanned pregnancy. The decision to keep the baby and raise it on her own will alter her life forever. Relationships are put to the test, especially the one between her and Jack. She doesn't know what to expect from him and he surprises her at every turn.
On FFnet or AO3
My S/J fics can be found on FFnet and AO3. I also tweet and tumble about the ship and my writing/stories.
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Originally posted by fems View PostPerhaps that's why they're still so "backwards" to use your own words...
I guess I'll have to wait and see. I like little Robb Starks command skills ; good decoy maneuver to steal away Jaime Lannister in the first season. If this keeps up it might still be worth watching.SGU. Best Sci-fi show to come along in decades.
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Originally posted by psl1 View PostThat’s not what I'm talking about. Either a writer is just writing to make money and has nothing to say but cone gullible people into buying his books [might work in short term but never lasts] or he has something he/she feels a deep enough need to communicate. It could not last 7 books without some kind of basic driving point behind it.
Originally posted by Skydiver View PostI thought I had heard/read a theory onceSpoiler:the GOT world isn't like ours in that it's not big, planets revolving around a sun, but an inside solar system...as in the 'sun' is inside a massive sphere, and the people walk inside the outer shell...that's what's represented by the open, those revolving bands.
I'm honestly expecting....anyone remember the old Clash of the TItans? I'm talking the one in the 80's, with Harry Hamlin and BUrgess Meredith. Where zeus put playing pieces down into the stadium of life...that that's what we'll end up with in the end, that the whole show has been nothing but a RPG, a game that two people were playing. And what we were watching as 'reality' was them playing their game. ANd it gets played over and over and over. and maybe one reason the seasons are so unpredictible...they are as long as a roll of hte dice dictates they are.Spoiler:I had the same thought as you, that the Game was being played out by R'hllor and the Great Other in a celestial setting.Last edited by Cold Fuzz; 24 April 2013, 07:17 PM.sigpic
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