Game of Thrones Season 8 - Review & Analysis
Channel: Jeremy Johnson
Date: 2019-05-24

From "decompression" to "disenchantment." Stephen T. Harper of What's Your Theory? podcast joins me for a Game of Thrones redux episode. We dig a little deeper into the layers of cultural and philosophical analysis and try to understand the fantasy genre's place in expressing the shift from enchantment to disenchantment (although overemphasized, 'disenchantment' can still be a useful concept), premodernity to modernity, and relating the secular world to its dragon haunted spectral past. 

Did GoT fail the fantasy genre? 

How did GoT show us the move from premodernity to modernity? 

What does GoT, and fantasy, have to say about disenchantment and the possibility of re-enchantment? 

How does GoT compare to J.R.R. Tolkien's LOTR in expressing these complex cultural transformations?

Can scholars who study the evolution of consciousness, or "integral philosophy" help us understand these themes in the fantasy genre? If so, how?

What's Your Theory? Episode:
See our previous "Decompression" episode on Steve's show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuRbBKpimA0

Connect with me on Patreon: 
https://www.patreon.com/jeremyjohnson
Mutations podcast:
https://anchor.fm/mutations

Informative articles:
The Real Reason Fans Hate the Last Season of Game of Thrones: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-real-reason-fans-hate-the-last-season-of-game-of-thrones/
How Game of Thrones Failed Fantasy: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/21/opinion/game-of-thrones-finale.html
Game of Thrones Is Still The Big, Sometimes Clunky Climate-Change Allegory We Need: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/04/game-of-thrones-climate-change-doom-of-valyria
Even Zizek weighed in on the ending of GoT: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/game-thrones-season-8-finale-bran-daenerys-cersei-jon-snow-zizek-revolution-a8923371.html

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