Starbucks in Winterfell
How an Audience found out Game Of Thrones is not real life.
This headline trending in social media and online shouldn’t have been “Game of Thrones” fans spot coffee cup during scene and Twitter couldn’t believe it ” it should have been “Unimaginative twit ruin things for everybody to get attention. “
Twitter can add more conspiracy theories to its list of bans as far as I am concerned. Sunday evening Shock and horror as a Starbuck cup was left in a scene. Twitter and social media erupted as if this was the most shocking thing to happen to television since the shooting of JR. Most of the audience will have no recollection of those days.
Do we really need a social media outcry at everything. We currently have a President who uses it to bash people, and horses now too. The idea that everyone has a say and a voice is great, but sometimes it’s better to just say / tweet / post nothing.
Emotional investment in dragons and dire wolves
For those who have an emotional investment in dragons, dire wolves and the outcome of the Stark clan , please relax, it is all a scripted TV show. None of the actors really die. Its only their character on the hit show. It’s a complex scripted show that has entertained audiences for years, unlike the other scripted reality shows on TV like the Kardashian clan. As such, things happen, props get left or a cup gets left on a table.
Twitter Erupts and Social Media Fans Abstain
We have had a lot to deal with recently. Markels “Endgame” left fans abstaining from social media in fear they would see leaked endings. Will Smith as the genie in Aladdin was heartbreaking and the new Star Wars trailer made some respond that it will never measure up to the Classic Star Wars trilogy, after seeing 37 second trailer.
Winterfell is not Real
If you need any convincing that there is not real Winterfell and that its all just a show, please watch the amazing Gandolf himself, Ian Mckellen describe the process to a character portrayed Ricky Gervais in Extras. This is hilarious !
I get it, in a world with political echo chambers, more presidential candidates than bad guys in a complete series of Scooby Doo, we need release. We are all on edge and we need to vent in any way.
We used to use our imagination, not CGI
Why can’t we just enjoy something on its merits. The original Star Trek, Twilight Zone was camp and as an audience we understood that Captain Kirk was not really on the hostile planet. We used our imagination, not CGI. We played along and didn’t complain that it was not life like. Why now do we need to feed into this obsession with all things narcissistic ? Why do we now look at these characters as if they are real and talk about them like they are family?
Social Media has us looking to vindicate something, to point out the wrong or to prove we are right. Search any post by the President or his Clan and you will see this. Why do people have to find flaws. Game of Thrones is an amazing series, “It had me at Hello”, but its entertainment, its fiction, its just a story.
I will be sorry that it is no longer running, and I will binge watch the series through-out the year., but I just wont take to social media to express my outrage, disgust or my concern over TV shows. I just turn them off, I have E! Entertainment blocked on my TV. I never have to complain about that trite, unfulfilling fluff.