qs! wrote:
Klaus wrote:
It's possible, but it's consistent with the other rewrites in tone and dialogue. ASoIaF is hardly a perfect work, but there's never any confusion about where the sympathies of the women lie. On Game of Thrones the idea seems to be that in order to be portrayed as a strong woman you need to distance yourself from what is generally considered feminine... And that dichotomy is very much an American invention too, in my opinion.
Yeah I'd say you have point there alright. HBO certainly aren't very progressive. I read that they had the True Detective writers change scenes to be in a strip club just so they could have more T&A in the show.
There is definitely some truth in this, but I'd argue in Cersei and Dany there's plenty of of strong feminine roles, with the former overtly confrontational about the situation she's born into purely due to her gender. Of course, the fact that she's an absolute bitch doesn't help, nor the fact that Dany lurches from one facepalm to another. But then, these character flaws exist outside their gender issues.
You could also argue that Brienne in the show had grown to despise everything that being feminine entailed, and that she isn't necessarily a strong woman, but perhaps another flawed character in a show full of flawed characters. Possibly the only non-flawed character is Littlefinger, who seems perfectly evil.
