{"id":4569,"date":"2016-03-21T03:29:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T21:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=4569"},"modified":"2016-03-21T03:29:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T21:59:04","slug":"avengers-game-of-thrones-mainstream-tweets-memes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=4569","title":{"rendered":"The Reign of the Geek Gods: How Game of Thrones and Avengers Helped Nerds Take Over the World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"container page-content\"><p><span class=\"dropcap\">\u201cY<\/span><\/p><\/div><p>ou can\u2019t always get what you want,\u201d sang The Rolling Stones, and I found myself humming along with Mick Jagger several times over the past weekend, as I scoured the internet trying to pick up tickets for<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/spoilers-avengers-endgame-game-of-thrones-internet-trolls\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Avengers: Endgame<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. If my choice of music wasn\u2019t enough of a giveaway, let me break the news to you: I failed. Not that it bothered me too much. After all, even without tickets to see the Avengers, I still had the knowledge that Monday would bring with it \u201cThe Long Night\u201d, the third episode of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Game of Thrones<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019 final season, which promised to be equally epic.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m going to remember April 2019 for a long, long time. Narendra Modi is seeking to be re-elected, and accompanying it are questions over the future direction of the country. But apart from the momentous political implications, this month will also go down as a landmark in pop culture history. Both on TV and film, nerd culture planted its flag in the mainstream, with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Avengers <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/winter-came-game-of-thrones-long-night\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GoT<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">becoming the most discussed, tweeted about, recapped, and memed franchises ever. The general public today seems more fearful of spoilers than the PM did of unscripted interviews during his entire tenure. For someone who\u2019s been labelled a \u201cnerd\u201d for most of his life, this entire month felt like validation for my lifelong obsessions.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GoT <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Avengers <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">unabashedly embrace their true nature, without pretence. There\u2019s no mistaking them for anything other than a fantasy epic and a superhero blockbuster respectively. This is why the way in which they\u2019ve come to dominate pop culture today is a source of pride for me. While growing up, these genres were considered niche interests \u2013 larger-than-life stories meant for distracting children, or childish individuals. Being a fan of comic books or fantasy <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/netflix-books-readers-block\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">novels<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> came with the stigma of being typecast as a socially awkward weirdo more comfortable in a made-up universe than the real world.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Growing up, while most of my fellow students in my all-boys school were waiting on the next instalment in the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fast &#038; Furious <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">franchise, my nerd friends and I were waiting for the cinematic adaptation of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/tolkien-quarter-life-crisis-millennial-middle-earth\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JRR Tolkien\u2019s<\/span><\/a> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Lord of the Rings<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The most popular video games at the time were the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FIFA <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Need for Speed <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">franchises, yet my favourites were <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Diablo <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Baldur\u2019s Gate<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. As time passed, the shaming only intensified. Fellow readers were graduating to \u201cserious\u201d authors like VS Naipaul, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Haruki Murakami, while I was immersing myself in Frank Miller\u2019s graphic novels and Robert Jordan\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Wheel of Time<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> novels. The older I got, the more my interest in sci-fi, fantasy, and comic book narratives was viewed as an oddity. Perhaps it\u2019s because <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/love-and-sex\/texting-tinder-online-love\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nerd<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> culture back then simply wasn\u2019t as universal as it is today, when everyone seems to have a favourite Avenger and breaks off contact with social media to avoid <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GoT <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">spoilers. <\/span>\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p>The stories of dragons and knights, superheroes and supervillains, and magic and superpowers, once confined to rarely visited library shelves, have leapt off the pages and onto our screens.<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After years and years of keeping my fandom hidden like an embarrassing secret, to be able to swap fan theories about my favourite characters with co-workers and acquaintances gives me more relief than what Jorah must have felt when Sam cured him of greyscale in the previous season. Ever since <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Endgame <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">released, I\u2019ve been dodging spoilers like Neo in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/series\/tales-from-the-encrypted\/jarvis-mark-zuckerberg-facebook-matrix-terminator-nick-bostrom-ai-artificial-intelligence\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Matrix<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but that feeling of dread is also accompanied by one of hidden joy because I never thought the day would come when I\u2019d be the one playing catch-up to nerd culture.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet, here we are. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Endgame <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is running sold-out in theatres across Mumbai, and has become the first movie to be screened on a 24-hour cycle. People organise hotly attended watch-parties for GoT episodes every Monday, as if it were an IPL final. That\u2019s a fair comparison to make, because nerd culture has, in recent years, gained the same kind of appreciation from audiences as jock culture. Professional <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/video-games-adult-gamers\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">gamers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> compete for prizes as lucrative as the ones professional athletes compete for, fan conventions see as many footfalls as a sporting event or a music concert, and more people know the properties of made-up Marvel mineral vibranium than the actual periodic table. It\u2019s no longer uncool to be a nerd.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The stories of dragons and knights, superheroes and supervillains, and magic and superpowers, once confined to rarely visited library shelves, have leapt off the pages and onto our screens. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/avengers-endgame-mcu-marvel\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Avengers<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thrones <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">marks the apogee of nerd culture; I highly doubt there will be another occasion in the foreseeable future when such explicitly niche franchises attain such monumental stature in the cultural landscape. The slow climb to legitimacy for these genres \u2013 which began for superhero films with Christopher Nolan\u2019s Batman trilogy and Peter Jackson\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LoTR <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">films \u2013 reached the summit when <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Avengers <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thrones <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">became the most-discussed stories on a weekend when PM Modi held a rally and the country went to the fourth phase of the polls.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So yes, I didn\u2019t get my hands on tickets for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Endgame<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and had to find ways to console myself. But like the Stones sang, \u201cYou can\u2019t always get what you want&#8230; but if you try sometime you find, you get what you need.\u201d And for a nerd who just wanted to share his passion with the rest of the world, this week was exactly what I needed.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m going to remember April 2019 for a long, long time. Apart from the political implications, this month will also go down as a landmark in pop culture. 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