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tightropegirl: How Not To Write A Review
Reviewing, once as delicate and artistic a form as the short story, has come upon degenerate times. I was sadly disillusioned the last time I was in New York, when I searched for reviews of a play whose wit I’d enjoyed, and found several reviewers who didn’t simply disagree with me – that would have been interesting – but who truly didn’t seem to grasp what was going on in the most elementary way. Partly, of course, this is due to the great drawing-in of newspapers and financing. Critics are no longer classically educated men of letters who are played by George Sanders, but busy people with day jobs who get tossed an assignment from their friend with a website.
For months now, I've been counting the days to April 17th, the release date of HBO's Game of Thrones . As a longtime fan of the books I have high hopes for the TV series as delicious entertainment, which is the chief characteristic of George R. R. Martin's books at their best. I don't expect it to offer social commentary like The Wire or philosophical depth like Six Feet Under (my favorite shows), because that is not what the books contain. What I hope is that like the books, the show will feature compelling characters, suspenseful plotting and colorful set pieces bringing Martin's vividly imagined world to life.
Ilana Teitelbaum: Dear New York Times: A Game of Thrones Is Not Just for Boys
Blood and gore. Sex and swords. Dragons and wraiths. On the surface, HBO’s new mythical series “Game of Thrones,” based on George R.R. Martin’s phenomenally successful “A Song of Ice and Fire” best-selling novels, appears to be a total testosterone experience. But don’t try to convince young women raised on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” anxiously waiting for “Game of Thrones” that this is anything but a series geared toward geek girls.
Much more accurate picture of female GoT fans
Ludicrous NYTimes Review That Started It All
With the amount of money apparently spent on “Game of Thrones,” the fantasy epic set in a quasi-medieval somewhereland beginning Sunday on , a show like “Mad Men” might have the financing to continue into the second term of a Malia Obama presidency. “Game of Thrones” is a cast-of-at-least-many-hundreds production, with sweeping “Braveheart” shots of warrior hordes. Keeping track of the principals alone feels as though it requires the focused memory of someone who can play bridge at a Warren Buffett level of adeptness.
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I usually make it a policy not to comment on reviews, especially negative reviewers. When you put your art out there in the marketplace on public view, some are going to like and some are going to hate it. Comes with the territory. And like Superchicken always said, I knew the job was dangerous when I took it. Normally, I would not even comment on something as spectacularly wrong-headed and condescending as the review of the HBO series GAME OF THRONES recenltly published in the NEW YORK TIMES.
The New York Times has taken a firm stand: Game of Thrones , the venerable paper argues, is for boys only. How bizarre is that? The show is obviously targeted exclusively at women.
Really, why would men ever want to watch "Game Of Thrones"?
Response to the NY Times Game of Thrones Review
When I sat down tonight I intended to write about my experiences with the Game of Thrones food truck last week and meeting George R. R. Martin.
Ser Jorah’s face grew thoughtful as their horses trod together down the godsway. “When I first went into exile, I looked at the Dothraki and saw half-naked barbarians, as wild as their horses. If you had asked me then, Princess, I should have told you that a thousand good knights would have no trouble putting to flight a hundred times as many Dothraki.” – George R.R. Martin, “A Game of Thrones”
Slate, New York Times to fantasy buffs: Grow up - Game of Thrones - Salon.com
Game of Thrones | OP/ED: Hey NY Times - Geek Girls Really Do Exist!
Before anything else is written, let me clarify: I don't think that everyone should agree with me. As a person who loves things like Doctor Who , non-sparkly vampire fiction, the Star Trek franchise, the original Star Wars films, time travel stories, and superhero comics, I'm used to having lots of discussion/debate on "Who was cooler?" "What take/interpretation was better?" "Which story was better?" "Which writer really got it down?"In a review of HBO’s new TV series Game of Thrones , the New York Times states that lurid sex is thrown in throughout the show to attract female viewers, who would otherwise not watch the show – because, they claim, women universally hate fantasy fiction like “The Hobbit,” which they say is the sole interest of men. I thought the New York Times was *already* lost at sea, upon observing its recent decisions around paywalls and attempts at bartering readership retention through cheap social media gimmicks. Like many seasoned bloggers, and like in regard to HuffPo, I had simply planned to avoid linking to the insult and idiocy at every opportunity to do so. Now with the NYT’s recent review of HBO’s Game of Thrones ( A Fantasy World of Strange Feuding Kingdoms by Ginia Bellafante), I realize that the idiocy and insult – and ignorance about media and its consumers – is in the very least shockingly naive, and at a glance, totally has its head up its ass.
HBO’s Game of Thrones: It’s “Porn for Women?” | violet blue ® :: open source sex
UPDATED: A tale of two reviews - Winter Is Coming
I need to rant before I start cursing and my poor roommate wonders if I have gone off the deep end. “Here the term green carries double meaning as both visual descriptive and allegory. Embedded in the narrative is a vague global-warming horror story. ” If you watched any of the dialogues regarding this change than you know it has nothing to do with environmental messups causing strange seasons, the long seasons, where one long season of summer follows with a long season of winter, is how it always has been and always will be. I have never heard any reference that Martin was trying to bring environmental awareness with his seasons.Reviewing the Reviewers | Orbit Books | Science Fiction, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy
When Ginia Bellafante at the New York Times and Troy Patterson at Slate condemn “Game of Thrones,” they are expressing something that genre writers and readers have experienced often with people who consider themselves the guardians of high culture. They condescend eloquently, but without convincing arguments. The disdain they have for the show is less for the execution or artistry of the production than for the genre it comes from. Ms. Bellafante manages to alienate women who read fantasy (who, in fairness she does agree exist).Blog Archive » A Live Woman Who’d Gladly Watch A Game of Thrones (Even Without the Sex Scenes)
Daenerys Targaryen's poster for HBO series. Daenerys is played by Emilia Clarke. Of course, I haven’t seen HBO’s Game of Thrones . And I won’t, for a very long time, because I live in France and I’m too Lawful Good to download the series in a non-legal way, even if the waiting really pisses me off. I’ll have to content myself with the preview .I know this is hard to imagine, especially for readers of my blog, but there are some people still out there who don't think females are allowed to like "boy stuff." You know, stories with swords, spaceships or aliens. But one thing I did not expect was the New York Times to perpetuate gender stereotypes. Guess what? I was wrong.
Has Boobs, Reads Comics: New York Times insults female readers, they write back.
Cross-posted from The Carnival of the Random If you click through , you’ll see the review of Game of Thrones from NYT’s Ginia Bellafante. I take issue with the entire slant of the review, since there is no substantive discussion of the series itself, and it plays more as a, “Oh this is such crap and it’s been tarted up to attract female viewers for the sex, but it’s macho crap and I don’t like it.”