Wednesday, January 26, 2022

[SPOILERS] The show gets a lot of casting right, but it is kinda annoying that they dropped the ball on Loras and Renly.

Be it intentionally or not. Some of the casting makes characters even better than they were in the books, but Renly... what was up with that foppish portrayal. In the books they kept describing him as the spitting image of young Robert, so I thought we'd get a tall and strong young man, who just happens to be gay (which they beat you over the head with in the show) and is also a little cocky. A "summer knight" as Cat put it, men who have never seen a harsh winter and are overly self-assured. Which is why it was so shocking (at least to me) when he gets killed off so easily when it seemed like he could easily take care off the lannisters.

And then there's Loras, who is an ambitious knight dreaming of glory, talented and cocky like a young jaime, but again just so happens to be gay. We last see him having been gravely injured after taking over Dragonstone in a glorious battle. Meanwhile in the show, there was that ridiculous plot with the high septon and him being a weakling damsel in distress who gets captured and his face scarred with the 7-pointed star... what even was that plot line. Edit: Oh and the only time we see any display of skill or fighting from him, is when we see him get his ass beat by brienne... who is already a badass but it doesn't mean anything if we don't see loras excel in swordfighting at any other point. Makes him worse than a jobber.

They just portray them as weak and effeminate and while it's true that Renly doesn't have much of a role anyhow seeing as he's killed off so early in the story, it doesn't excuse such a decision to have him be portrayed as such.

Always been curious about that decision and wondering if the showrunners have discussed it



Submitted January 26, 2022 at 04:05AM by visiny https://ift.tt/32wGx4f

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