The original post: /r/television by /u/youravgindian on 2026-02-24 18:30:57+00:00.
This is not a shade to the source material in any way, I know its good. But I think ever since I saw episode 4 of the show, I can’t stop thinking about it because so many innocent people (the commoners) in the world never have the justice they deserve. Even more so in the current time of abusers like Diddy and Epstien and so many other rich assholes just treating normal and people in need to their use without having a shred of humanity.
So, seeing an honourable guy in power Baelor Targeryen actually fight side-by-side with the person who was nothing to him was so cool.
I am also aware that it is a common trope in media to make the viewer root for the underdog and punish the abuser, but I think the reason it felt fresh in AKOTSK is because we have seen both the shows that came out of Westeros and almost every person in both of those shows are powerful people doing random shit to grab power but there is also literally zero consideration for the common folk. Again, political intrigue that GOT and HOTD provide us with is not the problem but I don’t know, maybe its our anger that we don’t have an outlet that makes us want to root for the underdog a lot more than I don’t know 6-7 years ago when every marvel movie had this trope but it got oversaturated so quickly because of the sheer volume of the same movie coming out every 6 months.
This is one of the main reasons my fav superhero movies are Captain America: The first avenger and Blue Beetle because I want to root for the person who has the odds against him but comes out powerful in a believable way and not just in an out of pocket, pretentious way like so many other superhero movies or underdog stories do.
What are your thoughts?