Religion in Fantasy
Over the weekend, my wife and I saw Deliver Us from Evil. As a horror film it’s well worth seeing, but today I want to focus on one element of it: the priest. In many horror films, a priest is … Continue reading →
Tag Archives: A Song of Ice and Fire
Predictably Unpredictable — Flip the Trope
This post will contain spoilers for the Game of Thrones episode “The Mountain and the Viper” and for the season one finale of Agents of SHIELD. If either of these would bother you, then you should probably stop reading. But … Continue reading →
Geekdom and Sharing
Last summer, at a writer’s conference, I met a man who is writing a science fiction novel with an Indian basis instead of a Western basis. I asked if he’d read Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny. He hadn’t. He … Continue reading →
Origins of the Dragon Age
Much is made these days of the dragons on Game of Thrones. And this is proper. The special effects are amazing. And the special effects may be even better when Smaug appears on screen in The Hobbit. But long … Continue reading →
All Stories Must Die. All Stories Must Serve.
The other day I saw a post on Mythic Scribes that asks whether black and white fantasy is dead. As usual, I read the article and came away thinking along entirely different lines than the topic intended.* The essay examines … Continue reading →
A Bitch by Any Other Name…
So, it’s Thursday and I’m still thinking about Sunday’s Game of Thrones episode. Without going into spoiler-level details, there’s a great scene with Daenerys Targaryen. How good is it? Well, I almost went online and bought a Targaryen house tee-shirt. … Continue reading →
Zen and the Art of Adaptation
Most of the fans of HBO’s Game of Thrones fall into one of two categories: * Fans of the novels. These are the people who have read all the books, possibly more than once. They range from those who really … Continue reading →
What Could Follow Epic Fantasy?
Epic fantasy rules the entertainment world these days. Kicked off by the Lord of the Rings films, epic fantasy has spread from the pages of novels to the big and small screens. George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice … Continue reading →
Thank Which God Again?
There are people in this world who have elevated their understanding of the philosophies of Star Wars’ Jedi Knights to a religion that they themselves practice. A real-world religion born of a practice from a space opera. The Church of … Continue reading →