Emilia Clarke in HBO's"Game of Thrones." By Alyssa Rosenberg Alyssa Rosenberg Opinion writer covering culture Email Bio Follow Opinion writer May 10 at 3:06 PM This post discusses the plot of “Game of Thrones” up to and including the most recent episode, “The Last of the Starks.”
And more disconcerting for some viewers has been a series of plot points seemingly engineered to undercut the character who replaced the late, lamented Ned Stark as the most logical rooting interest on “Game of Thrones.” Exiled Princess Daenerys Targaryen grew up being told that the people of Westeros would cheer her family’s return.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley elevated women’s perspectives in their retelling of Ovid in their play “Proserpine.” Marion Zimmer Bradley’s 1983 novel “The Mists of Avalon” reshuffled Arthurian legend to recast Morgan le Fay as Morgaine, a powerful priestess and the story’s true protagonist. Jane Yolen’s 1992 novel “Briar Rose” took the elements of Sleeping Beauty and used them to tell a Holocaust story in which the felled princess woke up and become a resistance fighter.
To greater and lesser extents, the same is true for other women on the show: They’ve experienced trauma at the hands of men and responded by becoming like them in various ways.
Like the last episode
Who tf cares?
Was that ‘woke’ enough for you?
Complete and utter trash.
Eveybody should bend the knee to Arya Stark
Anita Sarkeesian on the throne. Maybe it would just be better to let the hordes win.
War is over. The 7 kingdoms have forgotten 8 years of war crimes of various rulers. Tyrian (being a Lannister) monopolizes all Westerosi trade, employing many women GirlBoss. Bran’s social netwarg is worth 900B Gold Dragons. Dany is CMO, sells cached wargs to the NK Yasss kween
The Dragon Queen rules the Day.
War is over. The 7 kingdoms have forgotten 8 years of war crimes of various rulers. Tyrian (being a Lannister) monopolizes all Westerosi trade, employing many women GirlBoss Theon’s social networking site is worth 1B Gold Dragons. Dany is CMO and sells all user data Yasss kween
Who cares
Hahahahahahaha, is as stupid as is possible.
I’m not sure you realize you killed the media and working to kill the entertainment business
Why would you ruin all that great masculinity.
It would be a fair end. It wouldn’t matter the gender of the person seating on the throne.
Why does that matter
Deanerys bends the knee in front of a naked John snow.
The dragon queen dies, Jon snow returns to the north, Sansa becomes queen after her sister kills the evil queen
Like most Hollywood movies . Zzzzzzzzz
I want Arya to take the throne
What are you people even talking about it?
Obviously with a peasant uprising that abolishes feudalism, slaughters all the nobility, and smashes all remaining class hierarchies. Lol I’m kidding. Let’s just put a mad queen on the Iron Throne to perpetuate the system of surfdom and patriarchal violence and call it a day.
my god...
That thought is scarier than the Night King and the army of the dead. An army of blue haired blood thirsty butch vegans, with ninja tongues, castrating every man who crosses their path. only to die off because there are no men with bits or the will to be bred.
It doesn't exist. Everyone writing and directing the show is a man.
Whatever the outcome ! Democrats are gonna scream they cheated and want an investigation
More importantly, why?
Do NOT bring GoT into this toxic bullshit
Menstrual synchronicity.
A ‘feminist’ ending in game of thrones would be the most logical character to sit on the iron throne regardless of gender because that is equality.. I believe it to be Sansa
I could see George R. R. Martin driving every character mad and having them kill every last one of each other off, for no rhyme or reason except to make us all feel despair. Because George R. R. Martin is the Mad King.
Ffs 😫😖😨😳
I think Euron Greyjoy intends 2 double-cross Cersei, abduct Daenerys, force her 2 marry him & have her declared insane so he can rule as regent. I think he's tried using the arts of the Warlocks of Qarth 2 tamper w/ her mind, but like so many creeps b4 him, he underestimates her.
Just stop it already!
Where everyone’s sad, alone, and own a bunch of cats.
Huh! 😂 Than GOT would rename as 'Desperate Housewives of 7 Kingdom!' 🤪
The iron throne would be remade out of labia. And it would be the most comfortable chair in all the lands. Everyone would still fight over it.
Burn the throne with dragon fire. Build a table and elect officials. And disallow any campaign funding, make lobbyists against the law so the government only focuses on what is best for the people of Westeros.
🙄
The Queen of dragons is kicking severe ass & her opponent is Queen Cersei. If that's not feminist enough for people you're pretty much at the hard limit. Whoever wins it's gonna be a woman with brutal domination
Dani takes Sansa as her queen, Arya runs miltary, they form a truce with Cersei and burn evryone else with the dragons, LOL!!!
Author is totally wrong! A feminist ending would be one where a democratic secular republic is established and all the lords, ladies, generals, priests, hanger ones are retired.
Not what happened last week 🤔
I'm struggling with GoT right now. Jon was never framed as a candidate for king. He was divorced from politics and served as a traditional fantasy hero. OTOH, Dany's journey has set her up to be queen, yet, unintentionally, the show routinely frames her as an incompetent leader.
the two Slavic wives of the Trump did their job)
Star Wars
Arya killed: Walder Frey House Frey Littlefinger Knight King... Who am I missing?
Feminist ending? Game of Thrones is already full of female protagonists. Cersei Dany Arya Sansa Etc .. The only high born dudes left are: Jon & Jamie - who don't want the throne
Probably what's going to happen...
That you need to fantasize about injecting your politics into a fictional program speaks volumes about you 🤮 keep your drivel to the real world where the avg person sees it for the nonsense it is.
Cersei defeats Danny, who wasn’t ready for the brutality of Westeros’ game of thrones. Cersei rules South with iron fist with Jamie in tow. Sansa completes break away from Seven Kingdoms and becomes the first Queen of the North, but never remarries.
Another ideological stance awkwardly forced into the entertainment sphere? Whoo, I love watching metaphorical political bumper stickers on TV.
Kremlin triumph?)
Oh god I am starting to hate feminism
Don't know how your opinion writer can know how the ending would be different in a 'feminist' ending if they themselves haven't seen the ACTUAL ending of the show? This is just dumb....she's not even that kind of writer, she's a journalist. This is just desperate WaPo.
Just a shitload of scissoring.
All the women team up and control EVERYTHING
Why must you reduce everything to gendering?
TARTH
For fucks sake
Plummeting views.
For golden garden have fowls flowers 🌺 to mean moon start state and when mean the capital anything she have miss golden puss
Less entertaining I would think.
Perfect!! We are here to make the world a better place where people are free from tyranny under their rightful queen 👌
Ask her majesty 😂😂😂😂😂
AYFKM... This is what gets oxygen?
Probably awful, but any ending at this point is going to be.
Gangbang
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