Reply To: Game Of Thrones

[Xanthe]

I loved all the female characters, even the deeply flawed ones, because there were good reasons for their flaws. I loved Catelyn too. I think it just goes to show that you have to write women as people first in order for them to be strong and interesting – and that’s mainly what TV shows DON’T do. Maybe this one did better because it was a book first and had fleshed out the women in that. Because in most TV shows the women are there to be ‘hot and kickass’, ‘sex object’ and ‘strong in a man’s world’ (which usually means brittle, stroppy, and prone to needing men to rescue her in my experience) and they all end up as cliches – and incidentally widely disliked by other women. I really loved loving the women on GOT as much or more than the men because they were genuinely interesting in their own right. It’s a bit like Rizzoli and Isles – write them as the central characters and not there to be some cliche and we like them.