{"id":1597,"date":"2016-04-13T01:00:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T01:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2016-04-13T01:00:49","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T01:00:49","slug":"lotr-vs-got-amazon-tv-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=1597","title":{"rendered":"Game of Thrones is Dead, Long Live Lord of the Rings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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\nf Comic Con India 2017 was any indication, India will soon be witnessing a dramatic jump in babies named Arya, <\/span>Khaleesi<\/span><\/a>, and Jon. Seven seasons into its run, <\/span>Game of Thrones<\/span><\/i> is officially a <\/span>legit<\/span><\/a> part of the pop culture canon. However, its next season is going to be its last, and I couldn\u2019t be more pleased. Because as winter finally comes for <\/span>GoT<\/span><\/i>, its role as the world\u2019s official provider of swords, heroism, and fantasy will revert to its rightful owner: <\/span>Lord of the Rings<\/span><\/i>.<\/span>\n\nAmazon, in a bid to replace Netflix as the platform that you sneakily use through your friend\u2019s account, has announced plans to bring <\/span>LoTR<\/span><\/i> <\/a>to the small screen in a multi-season deal worth USD 250 million (or less than a tenth of Smaug\u2019s hoard). Nearly 20 years after the first film, and half a century after the book\u2019s release, JRR Tolkien\u2019s <\/span>LoTR<\/span><\/i> is returning to prove why tits, blood, and swear words do not a fantasy epic make.<\/span>\n\nThe two series are drastically different, yet similar, in that they\u2019re both massively popular fantasy franchises, but their outlook and treatment couldn\u2019t be more different. It\u2019s the geek equivalent of the eternal Coke vs Pepsi debate. They\u2019re both immensely influential, and both have legions of rabid supporters who would never dream of drinking the rival cola. Now, Coke vs Pepsi might be a riddle with no answer (#TeamCokeForevs), but allow me to settle the <\/span>LoTR<\/span><\/i> vs <\/span>GoT<\/span><\/i> debate right here.<\/span>\n\nLooking at the source material, it\u2019s easy to see why <\/span>LoTR<\/span><\/i> is the franchise <\/span>GoT<\/span><\/i> wishes it could be after a long day of hiding from White Walkers. This isn\u2019t even an attempt to pick a better author between Tolkien and George RR Martin, though one was an Oxford professor who invented his own <\/span>languages <\/span><\/a>and scripts, and the other wrote TV episodes for a <\/span>Beauty and the Beast<\/span><\/i> adaptation<\/span><\/a>. No, <\/span>LoTR<\/span><\/i> simply translates into better adaptations because all the books, prequels, histories, glossaries, and appendices have been completed long ago, while <\/span>A Song of Ice and Fire<\/span><\/i> (<\/span>GoT<\/span><\/i>\u2019s literary analogue) still hasn\u2019t even reached its final volume. It\u2019s like trying to compare a Harley Davidson cruiser with a child\u2019s tricycle \u2013 the idea is the same, one is just far more professionally executed than the other.<\/span>\n\n

LoTR is where heroes get to be heroic, not end up turning into literal two-faced assassins like Arya Stark<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\nBut it isn\u2019t merely the fact that recent <\/span>GoT <\/span><\/i>episodes seem like they are being made up on the fly. <\/span>LoTR<\/span><\/i> comes up the victor in the fight of the franchises because of its characters. The steadfast and loyal Sam, the noble and just Aragorn, the wise and benevolent Gandalf \u2013 <\/span>LoTR<\/span><\/i> is where heroes get to be heroic, not end up turning into literal two-faced assassins like Arya Stark. <\/span>GoT<\/span><\/i>\u2019s characters are a <\/span>rogues\u2019 gallery<\/span><\/a> of human failings, and the last thing a cast of fantasy characters should do is remind you of your friends and family. The genre exists as an escape route from reality, which is a lesson <\/span>GoT<\/span><\/i> forgot quicker than Danaerys flew from Dragonstone to beyond The Wall.<\/span>\n\nYep, in the latest season, <\/span>GoT<\/span><\/i> broke its own internal logic, by granting the show\u2019s dragons (and ravens) the flight speed of an F-15. Such instances of the narrative thread unravelling were evident throughout the season, as it becomes increasingly evident that the show\u2019s writers are just treading water, hoping for Martin\u2019s books to catch up with the plot and rescue them from their creative dead-end. In contrast, the upcoming <\/span>LoTR<\/span><\/i> show isn\u2019t even bothering with revisiting any of the six movies, mining the rich depths of Tolkien\u2019s fully realised <\/span>legendarium <\/span><\/a>for fresh, new stories.<\/span>\n\nSo on one hand you have a literary treasure trove of novels, short stories, and essays, two multiple-Oscar-winning trilogies, and a highly anticipated television premiere. And on the other you have an incomplete fantasy series with a truncated final season for its TV adaptation. Picking a winner should be as easy as convincing a hobbit to join you for second breakfast. <\/span>GoT<\/span><\/i>\u2019s watch has ended, now repeat after me: \u201cOne Ring to rule them all.\u201d<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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