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Game of Thrones Tv Show
know_yourself_1234:
I have just seen the first episode of a TV Show called "Game of Thrones"; is is a kind of medieval pre apocalyptic epic tv show; here is the summary of what I saw:
--- Quote ---Game of Thrones is primarily set in the seven fantasy kingdoms that make up Westeros. The show opens in the frozen, northern border of the kingdoms, where a giant ice wall, guarded by a league of men in black, protects everyone from whatever nastiness lives in the world beyond. The opening scene is a frantic, desperate one, where the tattered black rags of several of the Night’s Watch are shown whitewashed in the icy glow of the northern woods. The men come across a clearing full of dead, mutilated bodies. The scene is grisly and horrifying, but not as bad as what comes next; the bodies come alive, all frozen flesh and glowing blue eyes, and attack them. Only one young boy survives to tell the tale.
In the next scene we get that one survivor, traveled to the capital of the northernmost kingdom, Winterfell, to tell the patriarch of the land, Eddard Stark (Sean Bean), what he has seen. The boy gets his head cut off for his troubles. You’re not supposed to desert that wall, or ever leave the watch. Stark performs the beheading himself, merciless, and in front of his young sons. And he’s our defacto protagonist. Yes, Game of Thrones is that kind of show.
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My friends were really not in opposition with the fact that the survivor had to be killed because he deserted his duty, in order to tell the "king" of what he had seen.
My friends told me that it was "because of the tradition", and it really shook me up to see that a life, whatever this guy may have done, could be taken by "law". It is really obeying a principle!
My friends told me "think about it, this is symbolic, if everyone did as this guy did, there would be no order at all..:"
I strongly disagree with the principle of "the right to take one's life", even in such a case.
The most curious is the modus operandi in this TV show: beheading; this reminded me of this "Nordic" propension of beheading, already spoken in the board.
I have read a passage regarding the Grail story yesterday night, speaking about this cruelty; and today I am being faced with this "beheading" question. Strange!
May I ask what you think? I was really unable to hold on to my opinion about if this is right or wrong. But for me this is not "going in the way of creation"; am I wrong?
Is the point there that I have to accept that this exists? :huh:
Just after that, when going back home, two strange guys asked my help to move their broken car("dead battery") to a place. I helped them. Just after that, thunder rolled and now rain is pouring.
tschai:
Whether or not the acts described are "right" or "wrong" are subjective-it depends on the culture. To them it is perfectly "right" to punish someone whom the felt had disobeyed the "law"-Laws are created by men to control the actions of others, and do not always have the best interest of all in mind.
The Japanese samurai routinely took heads in battle as trophies, and in other cultures it was also done (South America, New Guinea to name a couple)-to them it was a perfectly normal thing to do and was not "wrong"
There are still cultures / religions today that find it "acceptable" to put to death a person they have felt had broken their "laws" either by custom or religious.
So we have to view the situation from the perspective of the culture. We of course do not have to agree with it. I hope that helps somewhat?
Heimdallr:
I think the point of that scene, and many others in the show, are to show what life was like in the Middle Ages. Their was no middle ground, the law was the law and even if you're king you have to do as the law says. It was usually brutal, savage, even uncivilized at times, but that's the point.
anart:
--- Quote from: Heimdallr on June 07, 2011, 07:12:00 PM ---I think the point of that scene, and many others in the show, are to show what life was like in the Middle Ages. Their was no middle ground, the law was the law [...]. It was usually brutal, savage, even uncivilized at times, but that's the point.
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Sounds like today.
Gimpy:
--- Quote from: anart on June 07, 2011, 07:23:11 PM ---
--- Quote from: Heimdallr on June 07, 2011, 07:12:00 PM ---I think the point of that scene, and many others in the show, are to show what life was like in the Middle Ages. Their was no middle ground, the law was the law [...]. It was usually brutal, savage, even uncivilized at times, but that's the point.
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Sounds like today.
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I agree with Anart.
And I'll ask you (know-yourself-1234) this: Why does it bother you on a TV show? Does it bother you when it happens in today's world? Because acts just like it, and worse, happen all the time.
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