It’s truly a shame and honestly quite frustrating that these show runners, when given a great opportunity to delve into the intricacies of medieval power dynamics and how people actually handled a life in court, choose instead to slap modern identity politics all over a plot where it makes very little sense.
What's ironic is that Raniera as queen is terrible at making decisions and extremely emotional, causing her to make very big mistakes throughout the 3rd season. So it solidifies why everyone was so apprehensive about her. I think the show runners truly believe she comes off strong, but to me it feels like she is the least capable leader of ANY character in the entire show.
@@TwistedTentacleInn tbh for my own personal ideologies I agree, but it was obvious the writers wanted us to believe she was a near-perfect leader, especially with her conversation with Rhaenys after she’s sold on Rhaenyra’s claim both technically and morally. ‘Cause “mEn AnGrY WaR mOnGeRs 🙄🥴”
Subbing to this channel just for this series. I find myself noticing the wokeness in everything and immediately being annoyed but it happens so much I question if I’m overreacting. Thanks for doing this I hope this series covers a wide range of shows.
As someone who found house of the dragon disappointing and frustratingly mediocre, I find your opinion to be out of touch. This show has a lot of flaws and the complaints you voice are just silly. Wild that gender roles is central to this adaption of Martin's story "The Princess and the Queen". The woke mob is at it again. Or maybe its that the two biggest plot points of the story happen because Westeros and its rulers do not want a Queen to rule (the crowning of Viserys and the crowing of Aegon II). If you don't like this, blame Martin as his writing is not particularly subtle. Showing the painful realities of marriage in such a system as Westeros' 7 kingdoms does not equate to being against marriage or straight people. Also equating changing the race of one of hundreds of fictional families in a book series from White to Black with changing the race of actual historical figures in movies is just laughable. As someone who's been following the books since the 2000's, I could not give a singular shit about the race of the Velaryons. I came across this channel today seeing that it seems fairly new. After watching your videos, it seems like the problems you are looking at can much more easily be explained by the fact that studios are extremely lazy and want to make as much money as possible while putting in the least amount of effort. The "Media Giants" you talk about in the Penguin vid are not following the views of "leftist activists". Gina Carano wasn't fired because of her views, she was fired because her employer was losing money due to her behavior. Just like Melissa Barrera was from the next Scream movie for what people call leftist views. The only ideology these studios have is to make money. It just feels like woke is just the escape hatch for you to pull when you see something you don't like. It must have been because it was woke hollywood pushing their agenda, and couldn't possibly be because it was just made poorly or that it made you feel uncomfortable. Don't like a bunch of talk about gender, oppression of women and marriage in a feudal medieval society? Don't watch House of the Dragon, a show based on a story whose entire plot is driven by those issues and then be upset that it contains those issues. But by all means, go ahead and make lazy content with a woke zombie meter so that you can get those precious clicks rather than doing any sort of thoughtful analysis. If you aren't just trying to make money off of fandom rage clicks, I would really encourage to think with your own brain instead of just parroting nonsense you've heard on other corners of the internet. That would be zombie behavior, after all.
@@evanstancil2478 Thanks for your thoughtful feedback! I am in fact a new channel, and am working on delivering better and more in-depth analysis. I disagree with you, but I am aware my delivery needs refinement, so I hope I can master my craft, and will continue to deliver this content keeping people like yourself in mind. Thanks again!
@BaconBitsStudio That's nice of you to say, thank you. The reason I commented on this video was not out of hostility, but because I think that you could do something deeper than what I see out of some of these other youtubers who talk about these things. I don't want to watch only things I agree with, I'm fine to disagree, I just think what you're honing on is a different thing than you're expressing in this series. It feels like you have something potentially very unique and good and that I think it gets weighed down by this woke meter and other things like that. I hope that you don't dim your own talents just for the sake of catchy titles or series that would get more clicks.
These are fair points overall. In the Penguin video, OP did do a primary source analysis to clarify what the media added vs what the intentional story beats were all along, and that was absent here. That being said, your "don't like it, don't watch it" part of the comment seems to be the central point here. He seems to be making this content for an audience that's either wondering if they should watch a thing if they don't like these themes, or for an audience that did watch a thing and may have the same after-the-fact reservations that OP did. The reasons they avoid this media may be silly at the end of the day, but it is what it is. And this does bleed over into your point about "parroting vs thoughtful analysis". The best I think OP can do is do a standalone video not analyzing a piece of media, but just explaining the point of his whole project. What are these "symptoms of wokeness"? Why these ones? How and why are they weighted? Why does he care about this in his media in the first place? Ultimately I suspect you'd still be very disappointed in his answers and you'd probably cut your losses and move on, but I think this is going to boil down to a difference in values rather than a difference in "level of thought". As an aside, given the Marvel and Star Wars situation, I'm not sure "they just want to make money" is the narrative here. It seems like there is definitely a message that individual directors, at minimum, want to push and they're allowed to do it until it affects the bottom line "enough" until it gets shut down. Hollywood is definitely not a monolith though, Barrera case noted.
never pressed the dont recommend channel button faster, I can understand the neuroplasticity isn't all there anymore but goddamn man try being from this decade
It’s truly a shame and honestly quite frustrating that these show runners, when given a great opportunity to delve into the intricacies of medieval power dynamics and how people actually handled a life in court, choose instead to slap modern identity politics all over a plot where it makes very little sense.
What's ironic is that Raniera as queen is terrible at making decisions and extremely emotional, causing her to make very big mistakes throughout the 3rd season. So it solidifies why everyone was so apprehensive about her. I think the show runners truly believe she comes off strong, but to me it feels like she is the least capable leader of ANY character in the entire show.
@@TwistedTentacleInn tbh for my own personal ideologies I agree, but it was obvious the writers wanted us to believe she was a near-perfect leader, especially with her conversation with Rhaenys after she’s sold on Rhaenyra’s claim both technically and morally. ‘Cause “mEn AnGrY WaR mOnGeRs 🙄🥴”
Love the new woke meter
@@headlesshammerhead thanks!! Had some great suggestions on the last video.
Loving your content! Keep it jp
@@SinksCraft Thanks so much for the positivity!
I've only seen the first season and I couldn't go on to 2 and 3.
Subbing to this channel just for this series. I find myself noticing the wokeness in everything and immediately being annoyed but it happens so much I question if I’m overreacting. Thanks for doing this I hope this series covers a wide range of shows.
@@NINJAMANrunit you have my word!
The show, like the LOTR one, is just a way to pander to feminists
I stopped watching HOTD cause of all the wokeness
yes
As someone who found house of the dragon disappointing and frustratingly mediocre, I find your opinion to be out of touch. This show has a lot of flaws and the complaints you voice are just silly.
Wild that gender roles is central to this adaption of Martin's story "The Princess and the Queen". The woke mob is at it again. Or maybe its that the two biggest plot points of the story happen because Westeros and its rulers do not want a Queen to rule (the crowning of Viserys and the crowing of Aegon II). If you don't like this, blame Martin as his writing is not particularly subtle. Showing the painful realities of marriage in such a system as Westeros' 7 kingdoms does not equate to being against marriage or straight people.
Also equating changing the race of one of hundreds of fictional families in a book series from White to Black with changing the race of actual historical figures in movies is just laughable. As someone who's been following the books since the 2000's, I could not give a singular shit about the race of the Velaryons.
I came across this channel today seeing that it seems fairly new. After watching your videos, it seems like the problems you are looking at can much more easily be explained by the fact that studios are extremely lazy and want to make as much money as possible while putting in the least amount of effort. The "Media Giants" you talk about in the Penguin vid are not following the views of "leftist activists". Gina Carano wasn't fired because of her views, she was fired because her employer was losing money due to her behavior. Just like Melissa Barrera was from the next Scream movie for what people call leftist views. The only ideology these studios have is to make money.
It just feels like woke is just the escape hatch for you to pull when you see something you don't like. It must have been because it was woke hollywood pushing their agenda, and couldn't possibly be because it was just made poorly or that it made you feel uncomfortable.
Don't like a bunch of talk about gender, oppression of women and marriage in a feudal medieval society? Don't watch House of the Dragon, a show based on a story whose entire plot is driven by those issues and then be upset that it contains those issues. But by all means, go ahead and make lazy content with a woke zombie meter so that you can get those precious clicks rather than doing any sort of thoughtful analysis.
If you aren't just trying to make money off of fandom rage clicks, I would really encourage to think with your own brain instead of just parroting nonsense you've heard on other corners of the internet. That would be zombie behavior, after all.
@@evanstancil2478 Thanks for your thoughtful feedback! I am in fact a new channel, and am working on delivering better and more in-depth analysis. I disagree with you, but I am aware my delivery needs refinement, so I hope I can master my craft, and will continue to deliver this content keeping people like yourself in mind.
Thanks again!
@BaconBitsStudio That's nice of you to say, thank you. The reason I commented on this video was not out of hostility, but because I think that you could do something deeper than what I see out of some of these other youtubers who talk about these things. I don't want to watch only things I agree with, I'm fine to disagree, I just think what you're honing on is a different thing than you're expressing in this series. It feels like you have something potentially very unique and good and that I think it gets weighed down by this woke meter and other things like that. I hope that you don't dim your own talents just for the sake of catchy titles or series that would get more clicks.
These are fair points overall. In the Penguin video, OP did do a primary source analysis to clarify what the media added vs what the intentional story beats were all along, and that was absent here.
That being said, your "don't like it, don't watch it" part of the comment seems to be the central point here. He seems to be making this content for an audience that's either wondering if they should watch a thing if they don't like these themes, or for an audience that did watch a thing and may have the same after-the-fact reservations that OP did. The reasons they avoid this media may be silly at the end of the day, but it is what it is. And this does bleed over into your point about "parroting vs thoughtful analysis". The best I think OP can do is do a standalone video not analyzing a piece of media, but just explaining the point of his whole project. What are these "symptoms of wokeness"? Why these ones? How and why are they weighted? Why does he care about this in his media in the first place? Ultimately I suspect you'd still be very disappointed in his answers and you'd probably cut your losses and move on, but I think this is going to boil down to a difference in values rather than a difference in "level of thought".
As an aside, given the Marvel and Star Wars situation, I'm not sure "they just want to make money" is the narrative here. It seems like there is definitely a message that individual directors, at minimum, want to push and they're allowed to do it until it affects the bottom line "enough" until it gets shut down. Hollywood is definitely not a monolith though, Barrera case noted.
never pressed the dont recommend channel button faster, I can understand the neuroplasticity isn't all there anymore but goddamn man try being from this decade
Is the woke in the room with you?