One of the reasons I stopped watching Game of Thrones.
To me, fantasy is about wonderment, fantasy should be fantastical. But GoT, and the books it is based on do away with both. That’s the problem I have with those kinds of deconstructions (never mind the political BS that motivates most if it…) By deconstructing something down to it basic components in order to address whatever part if it is deemed objectionable, all too often one ends up destroying the very things that made it work in the first place. What’s left is a dark and angst-sodden piece that is not very wonderful and has little in the way of the fantastical, and is just depressing to watch or read.
Good rule of thumb: when something is lauded by the critics as being a “brilliant subversion of” of its subject matter, avoid it as the post-modernist POS it likely is.
