{"id":48929,"date":"2022-09-03T14:50:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T19:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48929"},"modified":"2022-09-09T14:50:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T19:50:58","slug":"150-years-before-the-game-of-thrones-westeros-had-asians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48929","title":{"rendered":"150+ years before the Game of Thrones\u2026 Westeros had Asians"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mythical wife and I went into House of the Dragon<\/em> with the level of excitement of a DC Comics film and the expectations of, a DC Comics film (extremely low, if I have to explain<\/em>).\u00a0 As those kind<\/em> of book snobs, we\u2019re salty that George R.R. Martin has become the television writer I knew he was going to become, instead of writing any of the fucking books, that the television show blew past where they left off, in like season 4 of GoT<\/em>.\u00a0 But as inherent fans of the property we still are, we knew it was inevitable that we were going to watch it anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, I\u2019ll reserve heavy reviewing of the show until more of it has come out.\u00a0 I\u2019m still learning all the new faces and houses, and much like its predecessor, I\u2019m sure I\u2019d benefit from re-watching some shit at a later date to really absorb early occurrences.\u00a0 Except that all the Targaryens are funny looking to me, because they\u2019ve all got bright-ass hair, but unlike Daenerys and Viserys, they\u2019re all kind of tanned-complexioned, which kind deviates from how most Targaryens are described.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whatever though, the whole point of this post is really the marvelous realization that it only took an entire 8-season series and two episodes for an actual Asian man to get 3 seconds of screen time in a GoT property.\u00a0 Yes, I know Jessica Henwick was one of the Sand Snakes, which is why I specified man, because when it comes to representation, Asian men obviously get the shaft when it comes time for everyone to become woke.<\/span><\/p>\n

And not as an ambiguous and heavily make-upped Dothraki, Meereen slave, Flea Bottom beggar or any inconsequential character.\u00a0 No, this guy is a fucking knight, with armor and presumably some degree of honor and bravery, if he\u2019s representing House Velaryon.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have no idea who he is, what his actual specific heritage is, but either way, he\u2019s still a fucking hero.\u00a0 And the fact that he made it into the GoT universe after just a decade is still like, three decades faster than Star Wars really decided to start giving Asian men some screen time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Progress is progress, but all the same I have to say it: it\u2019s about fucking time.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mythical wife and I went into House of the Dragon with the level of excitement of a DC Comics film and the expectations of, a DC Comics film (extremely low, if I have to explain).\u00a0 As those kind of book snobs, we\u2019re salty that George R.R. Martin has become the television writer I knew he … Continue reading 150+ years before the Game of Thrones\u2026 Westeros had Asians<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74,100,178,83,89,69],"class_list":["post-48929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-books","tag-comparison","tag-game-of-thrones","tag-observations","tag-racism","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48931,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48929\/revisions\/48931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}