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.
I’m not sure what excuse the New York Times has, however. For a review whose breathtaking irrelevancy will send blood pressures soaring, let’s chew on the following: Ilana Teitelbaum: Dear New York Times: A Game of Thrones Is Not Just for Boys. 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. I was surprised to read Ginia Bellafante's piece in the New York Times, as it manages to do so many wrong things at once.
It's clear that Bellafante was probably the wrong audience for this particular show, but she did not do her due diligence as a critic. Much more accurate picture of female GoT fans. Blood and gore.
Sex and swords. Dragons and wraiths. 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. In a sense the series, which will span 10 episodes, ought to come with a warning like, “If you can’t count cards, please return to reruns of ‘.’ ” Shot largely on location in the fields and hills of Northern Ireland and Malta, “Game of Thrones” is green and ripe and good-looking.
Here the term green carries double meaning as both visual descriptive and allegory. How did this come to pass? Boy Fiction? 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. 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. Slate, New York Times to fantasy buffs: Grow up - Game of Thrones. OP/ED: Hey NY Times - Geek Girls Really Do Exist! HBO’s Game of Thrones: It’s “Porn for Women?” 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. Er, wait a minute. Reviewing the Reviewers. 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. Has Boobs, Reads Comics: New York Times insults female readers, they write back. 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? NYT says fiction is gendered, Geek Girls unite to tell them, “NO.” Cross-posted from The Carnival of the Random.
Is Game of Thrones ‘Boy Fiction’? ThinkHero.com – Sci-Fi Comic Books Movies and TV Online Video Blog Show. Outlets have begun to unveil their reviews of the first several episodes of HBOs new epic fantasy Game of Thrones as we approach the Sunday night premier of the show.
The televised series is based on the first novel in author George R.R. Martin’s heptalogy A Song of Ice and Fire (only four of the seven books have been released, much to the chagrin of anxious fans). Game of Thrones is at once stark (yes pun) and lush, mythic and mundane, brutally raw and poetic. As dynamic and engaging as the novel is, (and we imagine the television series will be), it is impossible to hope that either or both will appeal to everyone. Though the lions share (there I go again with the puns) of the feedback has been remarkably positive and enthused, there are some who find the series not to their liking. As someone who is also quite familiar with the sometimes hyperbolic attack-mode that the web can incite, it is not my intention to aggress Ms.
Let us address point A, first. Geek Girl On The Street Reports: New York Times Sets Feminist Movement Back With Game Of Thrones Review Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors. Sarah Louise writes for Bleeding Cool I took time away from my stack of Harlequin romance novels and my daily gossip rag – all filled to the brim with scintillating sex scenes – to read what passed for The New York Times’ review of the forthcoming ‘Game of Thrones’ series by one Gina Bellafante. I know, I know, I’m a girl – what reason could I possibly have for wanting to read about and, God forbid, watch a show that is blatantly “boy fiction patronizingly turned out to reach the population’s other half?”
Well, for one, I’m incredibly excited about this show. And secondly, I was expecting an actual review from a respected publication such as The New York Times. Said review made mention of no plot, character or actor! The joke’s on me, I guess, and by the looks of it the rest of the female population that has been looking forward to this adaptation of the George R. “While I do not doubt that there are women in the world who read books like Mr. Where does this woman live? “No woman alive”. Why Is the Fact of Women Liking Sci-Fi and Fantasy So Hard To Believe? Response to the NY Times review of "Game of Thrones"
And I thought we were doing so well. On Thursday morning, I saw Susan C. Young's article "Geek girls help power viewership for sci-fi/fantasy TV" at MSNBC. In Game Of Thrones Review, New York Times Explains Women Hate Fantasy Novels. Game of Thrones & the New York Times: Game Over. « Pop Culture Academic. The blogosphere, twitter, and various fantasy fan sites are abuzz with comments regarding today’s New York Times review of HBO’s latest epic series, based on George RR Martin’s A Game of Thrones. And with good reason. Not only does the reviewer, Ginia Bellafante, seem to have a bit of a problem with fantasy genre in general, she manages to insult her own sex in the process. First of all, it’s clear she hasn’t actually read the book, as she writes, “embedded in the narrative is a vague global-warming horror story. Rival dynasties vie for control over the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros — a territory where summers are measured in years, not months, and where winters can extend for decades.”
Uh, no. Geek Girl Diva: To Ginia Bellafante Regarding Your "Review" Of Game Of Thrones. [Rant] Not sure if you've read the "review" on the New York Times about Game of Thrones, but I did and I have just a few things I'd like to say to Ginia Bellafante. 1) To quote SNL "Ginia, you ignorant slut". 2) I'm sorry, was there an actual review in there?
It was hard to find in that morass of judgement and ignorance about the fantasy genre as a whole. 3) My female friends and I don't have book clubs about The Hobbit. Because we've already read it and we can discuss it without reading it. 4) Any geek girl (wait, do I need to explain that term to you) would happily tell you that she's looking forward to Game of Thrones.
No Fantasy/sci-fi Please — We’re Women.