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@FrenlyOfficer "Kids throwing stones at tanks are enemy combatants" ass perspective

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Inconsolable right now #hotd

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@TheMorbidHobo @Waldbalex @ShermanShow1 @MarvelousMrToad @Ingridpilled You could say the same about the action scenes in a film like Oldboy. It's not an action movie, the plot progresses even if we skip the action, so what's the point? It's fun, and that's enough.

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@cc33_rl @thhouseofblack I mean the movie still ends with him massacring the suitors, and there's never any question that it's a good and cool thing for him to do. The movie thinking the sack of a city is bad is hardly the same as a "no kill rule".

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@kcpublicenemy @chattyreality We've seen people's personalities shift after claiming a dragon. I like to think that Viserys changed a lot after Balerion died, and that if we knew him beforehand that connection would make more sense. But also dragons are pretty inconsistent with their riders, so who knows.

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@therealmsiren I mean he's basically the Pope, he doesn't necessarily answer to the laws of the crown in the same way that others might.

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@lostplunder @Targ_Loyalist And then Maegor had half the country rebel and ended up impaled on his own throne. Solutions like that are only ever short term.

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@pokenontwilight @xverc6 @captaiin_gold If she didn't pick him she would've burned him to death, we've seen what happens when dragons don't accept a rider.

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@TheRealimroboi @arvofart If 84% of critics gave Se7en a 10/10 and 91% of critics gave Last Jedi a 6/10, Last Jedi would have a higher rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but most critics would still prefer Se7en.

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@EDouglasWW @ScottMendelson Make that thirteen.

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@Nazthejerk18 @SavLovesSwift That was a change they chose to make. The removal of the child and the softening of Heathcliff's portrayal both serve to remove agency from Isabella. Her character is a powerful and meaningful part of the book that was completely butchered in the movie.

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@Nazthejerk18 @SavLovesSwift She has power in the book, though, she escapes her abuser and raises their child on her own. All of that is erased in the movie in favour of imo pretty dull erotic tension that only really serves to help prevent Heathcliff from being an actual antagonist.

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@cachiloreto @snoopyinfilm She has agency in the book. She's a victim who ends up escaping Heathcliff without any help and raising their child alone, never seeing him again. Heathcliff tries to strip her of her agency and fails. In the movie she's dragged away, "rescued" by others. Not really more agency.

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@grapefruitzzz @SavLovesSwift It's the way people describe fiction that means something to them. Book Isabella is a victim of terrible abuse, but she ends up escaping without any help from outside. It's a meaningful and impactful depiction of abuse and liberation that is entirely disrespected by the film.

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@Havenofsoulsboi @bittersteel196 Except they're not killing a dragon in the Crownlands, they're killing a puppet dragon in a reenactment of a popular legend while in the Reach. Also I don't think the Tullys ban fishing.

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@Avonleebythesea He's also called Lascar and compared to Indian and Chinese people. He's not black, but he's also not white.

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@chamomile_369 @DamoclesStAlban @dom_msmsmsm What are you saying? That Black Irish were considered non-white in America in the 1830s but would be considered white today? This has zero significance to Heathcliff's ethnicity.

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@frost_ @BussyKeaton She doesn't call her Lascar though, which is how Heathcliff is described on multiple occasions.

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@chamomile_369 @DamoclesStAlban @dom_msmsmsm Sure but it's not really relevant to a book written in Yorkshire in the 1840s and set in Yorkshire in the late 1700s.