The Daily Wire has been going through huge financial struggles which have resulted in many layoffs. However, most didn’t know what happened behind the scenes. The former CEO and co-founder of the company Jeremy Boreign recently revealed the issues with their movie and TV production as a hedge fund looking to buy or partner with the Daily Wire has said it lost $50 million dollars making a anti-woke Game of Thrones.
It’s hard to tell, since it’s unfinished, but the only way the story would make sense is if the white walkers are a metaphor for global warming, and all political conflicts turn out to be irrelevant, because there is no agriculture any more.
Sort of like a more elaborate retelling of uncle teds sheep or goat, parable.
Some people would call that woke.
Well there are women characters that have motivations so that already makes it woke
I failed to consider that.
This is actually true, but since it’s woke it made them white and evil
the hordes of immigrants were the wildlings, and a heroic main character decided on the rational decision to let them all through instead of leaving them to die and become more wights in the army of the dead. then small-minded and short-sighted bigoted traitors stabbed him in the back for saving mankind.
I mean, judging by the grr martin books I’ve read that seems unlikely. The dude seems to just really like writing about magic, dragons, and messy political intrigue.
nah he’s woke. he’s a hardcore hippy and has a radical and revolutionary heart to his story, which will not result in a reset to status quo but in a radical new “bittersweet” ending and new stage in development of westerosi history. that is, if he ever finishes it, which i’m 50/50 on
I don’t doubt that his writings feature revolution, the whole saga is pretty thick with political intrigue that calls back to a lot of European history. I just wouldn’t go as far to claim the white walkers were a direct allegory to climate change. To me it would make more sense for them to represent an inevitable political eventuality.
It would be nice to ever be proven right or wrong, but I’m not holding my breath in regards to him actually wrapping up the series himself. Writing is a miserable process for a lot of authors and I don’t really see him giving up all the fun he’s having to slave away at a keyboard, and tbh I don’t blame him at all.
Imo he’s probably got a good outline to wrap out the series that he’s going to give to a trusted friend/author to finish once he’s gone, kinda like Sanderson with the Wheel of Time .
there’s literal magical climate change integral to the central plot and they are nature spirits that herald the climate change. it’s really not a stretch
I think it’s a fair interpretation, but i don’t think it really fits thematically with the history in books. I mean, a lot of the books are about how cycles of interpersonal and political conflict recreate cycles of destructive and prosperous times through history.
Climate change would fit more if the white walkers hadn’t been a reoccurring problem. Plus, if the children of the woods represent nature, and the walkers represent climate change, the walkers turning on nature makes the allegory a bit convoluted.
I have a surprise for you about the children of the forest. They are on team other, as in they seek the same reconciliation and peace that the others do - only consciously and with a thousand year plan instead of just raw instinct. The destruction of climate change also hurts and damages the ecological terrorists and green movements
Other team? From what I remember they fought against humans and then made a pact with them and were mostly wiped out by the walkers. I don’t really know if you could qualify them as on a specific team. Again, I have a hard time seeing how this is a coherent allegory about climate change.
By “team other” I mean their ultimate goals are aligned with the others, even if the others don’t consciously realize it since they are just primordial hungry ghosts - forces of nature. Both of them seek the reconciliation of nature and mankind, meaning undoing the evils of the past and having a human hand guide the spirits back to peace. It’s basically the end of Princess Mononoke, where the CotF are the wolf gods/princess Mononoke and the waves of goo coming from the spirit of the forest that kill everything are the white walkers. Jon Snow is Prince Ashitaka.
Humans sinned against nature. Natures vengeance eventually catches up against them. They solve it by a human hero making amends and reconciling the contradictions between man and nature.
He’s also just an asshole rich guy, buying up half of Santa Fe. Maybe the guy really used to be a “hardcore hippy”, but in the way that they mostly turned into rich annoying boomers, so has grrm, except he’s more than the usual amout of wealthy, and has bought a train, a movie theatre, and various other Santa Fe institutions, pissing off the people living in Santa Fe in the process.
No, I don’t like grrm, and don’t believe there’s anything “woke” or “revolutionary” about him. Maybe his books are good, I liked them when I read them a decade ago, but I haven’t revisited them and likely won’t unless he actually finishes the series, which I’m quite certain he won’t
I just looked up your claims and you are full of shit btw. He doesn’t “own half of Santa Fe” he has invested money in 3 local businesses to keep them afloat (a bar, a bookstore and a cinema) and helped restore a historic rail line that was in ruins. He helps cultural charities and nonprofits. He lives in a modest house.
I think you read one hit piece on him and just made up your mind. None of this is damning and is probably the most benign rich people stuff imaginable. Engels did worse stuff than this lmao.
any wildly successful author is going to become rich, are we just setting the bar that no great author will ever be “good”? Can you not let the art stand alone? Just going to hand all popular media and art over to chuds to own?
Besides, buying a train and movie theater is exactly what 99% of users here would do if they suddenly came into wealth, not sure why you’re saying that like it’s a crime
Such a shame
That’s how I always read it but I (understandably, imo) basically always read any existential threat as a climate metaphor.
the first ever sentence describing them in the prologue of the first book is “A shadow emerged from the dark of the wood.”
It’s a literal shadow of the wood, a tree spirit. Weirwood spirits haunting mankind for their past sins, the consequences of old blood magic boiling over. Couldn’t be more on the nose as a climate metaphor when it’s nature blowback.
I agree, but it’s difficult to reconcile it with the first book coming out in '96 when climate change wasn’t really on most people’s radar imo.
he’s a big hippy and was active in ecology circles, he’s also extremely well read and actively made an erratic and changing climate a major plot-point of the series