#seth abramson

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🔗LINK to Seth Abramson’s Retrostack Review of HotD (Season 1) and Ryan Condal’s Writing

*Just so I no longer have to travel to Reddit for this link*

🔗 LINK to the Variety Article referenced

🔗 LINK (original); 🔗 LINK (uploaded on Tumblr by me) to Retrostack Article which Ambramson says: “RETRO covered the concerning season finale here, raising a serious and potentially Season 2–impacting narrative framing error that didn’t seem to be part of the major media response to the season finale elsewhere” explaining his tying Condal’s writing and direction to events in America.

Originally got this review/article from thedracarysqueen HERE, who got it from this Reddit Post

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Matt Gaetz For Attorney General??? WTF???

The New York Times Editorial Board has taken a strong stand on Donald Trump’s choices for cabinet positions, particularly the choice of Matt Gaetz, under investigation for child sex trafficking, for Attorney General.  I’ve read and heard nothing but horror from everyone, even some more moderate Republicans like Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins, about this choice.  I share with you today Seth…

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Seth Abramson has a lot to say about the 1st Presidential Debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. It's a good breakdown of where the Democrats are and where they should go.

[kei-yuki]

This and his previous article "Bothsidesism invades Westeros" put, mainly, the finger on the sore. And yes, things didn't exist in a vacuum.

This obssession for manipulate into an scenario where the two sides "are the same" (spoiler: they aren't) is never innocent.

Great review of Condal's work.

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The annual Kansas Speaks survey from the Docking Institute at Fort Hays State University showed Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris a mere five points behind Republican candidate Donald Trump. Given that the survey covers traditionally conservative Kansas, political pundits pounced.

“BREAKING: Trump only winning by 5 In KANSAS,” wrote legal commentator Tristan Snell.

“If Harris is only down 5 to Trump in Kansas – election night is going to be very good for Democrats,” added Obama campaign and administration alumnus Tim Fullerton.

“…holy sh*t?” exclaimed journalist and lawyer Seth Abramson.

Let’s step back from excited progressive reactions for a moment and actually talk about the poll, what it means and whether Harris has a shot in Kansas. (Spoiler alert, she almost certainly does not). We found a great person to help us break things down: Brett Zollinger, director of the Docking Institute. He sat down with Kansas Reflector staff on Tuesday afternoon to give background on those surprising results.

First off, we should understand that the data presented comes from a survey, not a poll. Kansas Speaks primarily tracks public opinion on issues rather than candidates. It gathers a representative panel of Kansans and collects information from them via a carefully designed online form.

“The presidential election is a very minor focus for us in Kansas Speaks,” he said. “We are far more focused on policies, issues that are going to be relevant to Kansans, likely to come up in the legislative session, that sort of thing. But every four years, we get this unique opportunity to see what our survey methodology bears out in terms of some actual voter decisions in the state in the presidential election. So in 2020, we were within 0.2% actually, in the spread between Trump and Biden with our survey panel methodology.”

For reference, in 2020 Trump finished at 56.2% in Kansas, while President Joe Biden reached 41.6%, a 14.6 percentage point gap. The 2020 Kansas Speaks survey found 52% support for Trump and 37.6% for Biden, a 14.4 percentage point gap.

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"...

Thursday’s debate was a domestic abuse session.

And this wasn’t a common couple violence situation, where both couples were equally, consistently barking at each other. The domestic abuse was one-way traffic, from Trump to Biden.

Trump routinely interrupted Biden. He often name-called Biden and made threatening comments against Black and Brown people. He demanded that he wouldn’t accept the results of a Democratic victory in November, and invoked similar language that he did prior to the January 6 attempted government overthrow.

Seth Abramson noted that in 40 minutes of airtime, Trump spoke 602 lies. That’s one lie every 3.8 seconds. He counted and provided links, as you can read along in this morning’s Substack. (Thank you 

Seth Abramson for doing the work that CNN either refused to do or was incapable of doing Thursday night and in following days.)

No shit that Biden, to quote the NYT, “struggled to hold Mr. Trump accountable for his lies, his failures and his chilling plans”. Most people dissociate in some capacity when they are in an interaction where they are being abused. ..."

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Americans more or less gave Trump a pass for performing as poorly in a presidential debate as any presidential candidate ever has; it was a last-place performance from a last-place president, and therefore surprised few. In stark contrast, Joe Biden was, in Atlanta, a victim of his own success: a top-notch president had turned in a tied-for-last-place performance, and it unnerved Americans. It stung.

Seth Abramson, We Now Know What Really Happened in Atlanta

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We don't even know what made Alicent crown Aegon. Was it Viserys ? So what would she do if it she learnt about the coup while never having heard Viserys last words ? Would she oppose the coronation ?

I can only answer your first question nonnie, which is exactly what Seth Abramson criticize in his review of HOTD: Condal relying on "accidents" to avoid having either Aemond or Alicent having to face consequences of their character. For Alicent:

After first implausibly suggesting that Alicent quickly getting behind Aegon’s claim changes nothing of what follows, and then briefly looping back to his claim that as a dramatist he merely wants to show how characters react to accidents (”[the Green Council] is more about how Alicent reacts to [the inevitability of] it”), Condal quickly makes his move: to say that the purpose of Fire & Blood, in both his view and Martin’s, is that history is “messy and unreliable”.

The show doesn't want to question what Alicent would have done if not for the "accident", Condal is interested in Alicent's reaction but saves her of having to make a choice herself. So he'll say literally anything to justify that writing decision: it doesn't change what's gonna happen, so it doesn't matter. Seeing it doesn't work, he returns to his theory of accidents. And finally, we're just asking too much questions because the whole point is that history isn't reliable.

Just so, Alicent is, largely against her will, a creature of her father Otto Hightower, a political and social conservative who’s ingrained in her two concurrent ideas: (a) a woman cannot rule Westeros, and (b) anyone who takes the Iron Throne can and must kill all other claimants. And yet Condal saves Alicent from having to wrestle with these rules — which taken together would compel her to place Aegon on the throne against the wishes of her husband while also murdering her closest friend (her late husband’s first child Rhaenyra) and all her offspring — via a happy, wildly implausible accident: Viserys suddenly naming Aegon his heir (but not really, of course) after so many years of giving no indication whatsoever that this is what he wanted.

It's her misunderstanding of Viserys' last words coming at the perfect moment that makes her want to crown her son Aegon. What would she have done if Viserys had never said anything? That's not a question Condal is interested in answering. We're just supposed to fall in line and agree with the terrible writing decision to rely on accidents to save characters (more specifically, two Greens characters). Without that "accident", Alicent would have been a character with agency and it's unfortunately not interesting for Condal because Alicent's big moment in the book during the Green Council after Viserys' death where she's just as much in charge as Otto is "unreliable history". Even in the show, before Viserys' death, she told Aegon that if Rhaenyra was Queen, she would have to kill him and anyone threatening her claim. It's obvious she wants him on the throne, there was no need for a "misunderstanding" of Viserys' last wish, but Condal saves her from looking too bad - or for me, from looking like a coherent character.

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"idk what to tell you, anon, have you tried talking to casual viewers IRL to see what they think of aegon?" I think casual viewers don't like Aemond either? Most of the comments outside of fan spaces are how he is a maniac and psycho who killed poor baby Luke. People cheered when he was maimed even when he was a kid. My friends hate him and the rest of the greens. My point is more that none of them were given some deep characterization, team black on Twitter keeps quoting Seth Abramson, an American professor, who criticizes Aemond's character, quote: "because Aemond, post-maiming has never been shown by the HBO series as having a "nuanced" personality". Fandom will look for details, analyze short moments and acting and find the complexity in these characters but mostly it's still not enough for both of them.

no, i definitely agree that the general public is very much anti green, aemond-included, but aemond is a more palatable option to them bc at least he's "fun". like i previously said, people understand why characters like loki and darth vader are popular, so if you'll tell them you like aemond they'll understand it as you being edgy

whereas they will start doing trigonometry in their heads for aegon, like, he is not even a potential option

team black on Twitter keeps quoting Seth Abramson, an American professor, who criticizes Aemond's character

who is this clown

Fandom will look for details, analyze short moments and acting and find the complexity in these characters but mostly it's still not enough for both of them.

yes

also, team black might dunk on aemond, but someone must be writing all those aemond/oc fics where aemond defects to rhaenyra's side and it's sure as hell not the greens

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🔗  LINK to Retrostack Article of Seth Abramson tying Condal’s writing and direction to events in America

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The HOTD review

https://www.tumblr.com/thedracarysqueen/705912634273398784/and-once-again

Thank you anon! So here's the article on Reddit. It's a compilation of screenshots from an article (seems one might be missing) by Seth Abramson.

I'm not sharing this to comment on Condal or his conflicting comments in various interviews. You don't have to come at me about what I think about them because I'll just send you to read this post.

I am sharing so people can read a very well written article by a journalist who knows what he's doing. I don't agree with every point and I don't disagree with every point. However, he makes some interesting ones that you might want to read for yourselves.

Before season two I'll probably write an opinion piece about the creators and some of the problems they have made for themselves but today is not that day.

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There Is Wisdom In These Words

Seth Abramson is a bit of everything from professor of communication arts and sciences to criminal defense attorney to author to political analyst/writer, and his views are usually spot on.  His newsletter this morning hit the nail on the head regarding the Republican Party, debt ceiling, and the GOP intent to destroy not only the president, but the presidency and with it, the democratic…

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[ID: A quote retweet by Dan Whitfield @ DanWhitCongress that reads, "If Trump doesn't have to take mandated drug test, no other convicted felons should either." The original tweet by Seth Abramson @ SethAbramson reads, "BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump, Long Rumored to Be A Prescription Drug Abuser, Given Special Treatment and Allowed to Evade a Drug Test During His First Post-Conviction Probation Meeting—Raising Questions About Whether MAGA's Nomin..." /end ID]

Everyone needs to bring this up. Every TV appearance needs this question answered.

Why is Trump allowed to skip a mandated drug test?

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I share this with you because I live in FloriDUH!! Know ALL about Gaetz!! ... " I share with you today Seth Abramson’s editorial about this choice."

Matt Gaetz For Attorney General??? WTF???

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I share this with you because I live in FloriDUH!! Know ALL about Gaetz!! ... " I share with you today Seth Abramson’s editorial about this choice."

Matt Gaetz For Attorney General??? WTF???