.marymacTV writes: ‘Game of Thrones’ will end, but respect for fantasy should not.
Within the story and among its audience, these things will be pored over and repeated, totems of knowledge, anticipation, reassurance. When the story is done, we will argue about meaning and justice and fate, about who was the bravest, the vilest, the best loved, the most tragic figure in the tale.But with any luck, we won’t forget that “Game of Thrones” is a fantasy and this is what fantasy looks like, what fantasy does.
Not only did those two franchises thrive, they lifted fantasy out of cinematic dry dock, making it possible for “Game of Thrones” and a new crop of television fantasies to exist. But still any story in which magic is not defined as a super-power must fight to be taken seriously. It may seem like “Game of Thrones” has ruled forever, but in the beginning, only a few of us saw the hit it would become. Others just saw those swords ’n’ that sorcery.
“Now people want to make fantasy play by real-world rules,” he says. “I hear a lot of requests for ‘grounded fantasy,’ which uses the tools of realism — the world is grimy, people swear.” For some, the Marvel universe fills the need for epic, but superhero stories are not true fantasies; they rely too much on gadgetry and do not deal in large enough themes.“Superhero dramas coat science fiction premises in fantasy plots,” Clute says, “but they are so overloaded with wish fulfillment for children it is hard to think about them.”
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