The engineer is the maker of history. The masses are content to be peasants and the rich are content to be feudal lords. The engineer disturbs their perfect peace with his unwanted machines and they collude to suppress him. But the engineer’s machines are not easily suppressed.
@BillTheKid1603 Yeah the same with Galileo: his opponents weren't superstitious idiots, the monks OWNED him with FACTS and LOGIC (available at their time)
@TylerGlaiel Dark Souls of movies= something with revolutionary concepts, demanding engagement, unique style, and influencing many succesors, but not necessarily changing the mainstream.
I'd say: Leone's spaghetti westerns, Fury Road, Matrix, Rosemary's Baby, Dune, Nolan's concept thrillers
@nonaphoria GoT has only 2 of quite succesful spinoffs, based on the different books in the universe. While LOTR already had unecessary Hobbit trilogy, Rings of power and countless video games with silly plotlines
people misunderstand the icarus story. the problem was not that he flew too high. it's that the wings were made of beeswax, which offered very little resistance to heating. with modern materials he would have had no problems. we can fly as close to the sun as we want now
I'm surprised The Name of the Rose was written by an Italian because there are so many instances of the based English empiricist owning the superstitious latins with facts and logic
@HubPointless The most interesting part starts AFTER the conquest of 6 kingdoms, when the rivalary with Dorne and Martell granma takes place: hand cuttings, cunning guerellla wars, assassinations, red weddings and other stuff we like so much, and the way it all concludes with mysterious letter
@dornishgoblin Exactly, "stupid ned" meme is cancer. Stark kids would encounter a stranger on their path, and they'all be like "Your father was an honorable man, how can I help you?"
Also one of the rare nice moments in later seasons was Cersei's "I will trust the word of Ned Stark's son"