George R. R. Martin responds to people asking about the “Danaerys White Savior” scene from the TV show.
Most of these people have obviously not read the books.
If they had, they would know there is no racial component to slavery as practiced on Essos. It is based on slavery as it existed in the ancient world. The Romans and Greek were just as willing to enslave other Greeks and Romans as they were Celts, Goths, Germans, and Africans. It’s on the page.
However, when you are filming scenes in Morocco, and you put out a call for extras, it’s Moroccans who show up. Most of them are darker skinned than our European actors (though there is actually a lot of different races and ethnic groups represented in the country, including Arabs, Berbers, Africans, French, etc). It is not so different from shooting a scene in Belfast and putting out a call for extras, whereupon a lot of Irish show up.
We fly our actors from country to country and continent to continent, at considerable expense, but that’s not a practical consideration when dealing with extras. So in any big crowd scene, the prevailing skin color is always going to echo that of whatever the location is that you’re shooting in.
But just for the record, yes, Dany is white, just as she has been from the beginning, and she may or may not be a savior (the last scene in “Mhysa” is not the end of her journey by any means), but she frees slaves of all colors, races, creeds, and nationalities.
I got a chuckle due to his wizardry over English. From what Mr. Martin said, he probably wouldn’t have done it the way it was done. He’s just one of the more diplomatic and well-spoken individuals above ground, is all. He clearly does not defend the TV show on moral grounds, instead asking people to refer to the books.
He very cleverly said “read the books, they’re better” without saying anything of the sort.
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I don’t really get why people worry about Game Of Thrones catching up to George R. R. Martin/Ice and Fire. A Storm of Swords got split into two seasons due to abundance of events and it’s 973 pages.
A Dance With Dragons is 1040 pages. Probably split into two seasons.
The Winds of Winter is supposedly going to surpass 1500. In theory, that could be three seasons. Same with A Dream of Spring. In theory, there could be up to 10 more seasons of the show. I hope there isn’t (I’d rather not watch how far they could branch away from the story in 10 years), but he isn’t going to take 10 years to finish these books.
I’m not terribly worried about it due to at this point placing more importance on the books themselves, but I am a bit annoyed that people keep talking about this. I just don’t think they aren’t going to catch up to him.
Do you?
This is Robb apparently being braindead. It’s actually for him falling after being shot, but I find the face hilarious.
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I really want a new icon, but I can’t imagine a better one than that. It’s so unprofessional and not dignified in the least, but I really don’t know how being professional would put across “comedian.” Some comedian’s icons I see, I think “this person might as well be on CNN” because they go out of their way to look dignified.
You come on to my profiles and you know you’re following a weirdo. You don’t unfollow later because you figured out you’re following a weirdo.
So I don’t think I’ll change it because often my urge is the wrong urge from a branding perspective. I don’t think comedians are natural at branding themselves. My instinct is to either try to make myself look less stupid (presentable) or to make fun of myself savagely.
Someone needs to send this to @RickyGervais.
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Pixel George R. R. Martin as he thinks about how you love his characters.