{"id":7783,"date":"2017-12-03T20:51:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T02:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/?p=7783"},"modified":"2017-12-06T09:20:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T15:20:11","slug":"wants-talk-game-thrones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2017\/12\/wants-talk-game-thrones.html","title":{"rendered":"Who wants to talk about Game of Thrones?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7784\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/533\/2017\/12\/800px-Museum_imperial_palace_manchu_state_throne_room_2011_07_26.jpg\" alt=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AMuseum_imperial_palace_manchu_state_throne_room_2011_07_26.jpg; By Rolfmueller (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons. Photograph of the throne room in the Museum of the Imperial Palace of the Manchu State, Changchun, Jilin province, northeast China.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/p>\n<p>in the comments, that is?<\/p>\n<p>For context, my husband and I have been working our way through Games of Thrones DVDs from the library; over the past couple weeks, we watched season 7 via iTunes.\u00a0 And I have to say that, where in the first seasons, the sex and violence was a bit over-the-top, and there were scenes which took place in the brothel for no apparent reason, they seem to have dialed it back.\u00a0 Whether it was\u00a0because they gained enough of a following that the actors\/actresses declined disrobing quite as often, or because they couldn\u2019t work as much sex or as many\u00a0impalements and beheadings\u00a0 into the storyline as it developed in later seasons, I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 We also were really thrown for a loop in the first couple seasons when it appeared that they were just going to kill off characters as they saw fit; we joked that no one of the characters could ever demand too much pay because they\u2019d just kill off that character and move on to a different story arc.<\/p>\n<p>But as a result of our late entry into Game-of-Thrones viewing, I had to determinedly avoid reading all of those articles about the show just before and during season 7.\u00a0 And now that I\u2019ve caught up to the rest of the world, no one\u2019s talking about it any longer.\u00a0 And, at the same time, however small my readership is, I don\u2019t want to spoil the show for anyone who\u2019s currently in the middle of viewing anything; hence, my invitation to chat in the comments, so as to ensure anyone who wants to avoid plot twists is able to do so.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Image:\u00a0https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AMuseum_imperial_palace_manchu_state_throne_room_2011_07_26.jpg; By Rolfmueller (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons. Photograph of the throne room in the Museum of the Imperial Palace of the Manchu State, Changchun, Jilin province, northeast China.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in the comments, that is? For context, my husband and I have been working our way through Games of Thrones DVDs from the library; over the past couple weeks, we watched season 7 via iTunes.\u00a0 And I have to say that, where in the first seasons, the sex and violence was a bit over-the-top, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":7784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[795],"class_list":["post-7783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-game-of-thrones"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Who wants to talk about Game of Thrones?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"in the comments, that is? 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