June 8 is not going to be a good day this year.
Hasn't been, to be honest, since June 8, 2018 — but this one is going to seem particularly bittersweet. Emphasis on the bitter.
Tony, the world needs you! Now more than ever.
Going tonight a candle that day. Somehow, I get the feeling I won't be alone.
I'm new to this thread, as I've been binge-watching HOTD for the 1st time over just the past 10 days or so.
I don't care to be spoon-fed episodes one at a time at a streamer's choosing, especially when I think I might enjoy a series and I know it's already been picked up for future seasons — not cutting off a story in midstream because of sudden, often arbitrary cancellation.
One thing I'm curious about, though. As I'm new to this, I don't know if this has been covered already, but I wonder if any other fans of the show feel sadness every time one of the dragons is killed.
This is crazy, because I know they don't exist — there's no such thing! — in the real world, and it would be just as easy to see them as these massive, unruly, unfeeling brutes that go around burning landscapes — and people! — to a cinder.
I first felt this feeling, oddly enough, toward the end of Game of Thrones, when a dragon is killed and crosses over to the Night King's side.
On one level, if one looks at it from a strictly storytelling perspective, it's a remarkable achievement to create something — that doesn't exist! — that makes readers/viewers sentimental about its passing, almost (but not quite) like losing a beloved pet.
I only ask because, in the real world, in my "other" life (when I'm not binge-watching fantasy shows and reading epic novels) I'm a wildlife photographer who focuses on photographing African animals in the wild.
I've been around wild lions — a lot — and I've seen them at their best, and worst — hunting, killing, loving, mating, raising families, and dying, sometimes by slow starvation, sometimes being torn apart by rival lions.
It is CRAZY to me that George RR Martin and the talented creatives behind HBO's GoT and HOTD have me giving even a 2nd thought to these imaginary beasts that don't exist in the real world. Am I wrong? Genuinely curious.