"To say that" Game of thrones "is a feminist television series is exaggerating." - Expressen

Just admit: I have a number of “game of thrones”-tics: involuntary, intermittent and difficult to control. They make people around me sighs, or at best smiles for my childish behavior.

“Game of thrones”? Yes, all checks well in the world’s best TV series? The second season in the spring shown on Swedish Television and the third season is in Swedish pay-TV channels. The fact that both “The Simpsons” and “Saturday Night Live” has done parodies testify greatness.

When I see the brutal fantasy series beautiful, computer animated intro, I can not refrain from humming the theme music shout “pens” when tower reminiscent of sharpened pencils emerging. When someone mentions the place Westeros, I can not resist the impulse to holler “Vasteras”. Every time my favorite Daenerys Targaryen turns out I say on pure reflex “Shakira”, as it is the blond pop star I see. Other characters in the series are similar to people I know and as I mention in section by section, their names every time they appear.

My family is after almost three seasons right sick of my bad habit. But all this I do for love! As when as a teenager tease the man is fond Maybe because no one really knows how else to express their feelings.

That this love “Game of thrones” would arise were an impossibility. I am not a fan of fantasy. Proud knights, fictional countries, flying kites and heads that roll usually does not attract me. All. Ever.

Since the series in the beginning also got much flogged because it was sexist and had putrid attitude to women was no reason to give it a chance. But I got the box with season one of the family’s teenagers. It was driven away. I was hooked. In the scheme, the many parallel stories being told. In people, the multifaceted personalities and in the exciting and unexpected fate that confronted them. That a star as Ned Stark beheaded so quickly comes as a shock to anyone who has not read the books.

There are literature professors will find links to Shakespeare and the Roman poet Virgil in “Game of thrones”, and the little pieces of our history and the history of literature has been sampled is certainly true. But the most remarkable thing after (almost) three seasons is how many strong women who stand out.

To say that “Game of thrones” is a feminist television series is exaggerating. It’s a bit too many naked female asses, nipples and sadistic sex scenes to qualify in that category. But fascinating many independent women’s portraits are highlighted. One of the many stories in the series is the one that deals with the limitations that are set up for women, and how women choose to violate social norms.

The small Arya Stark, the great Brienne of Tarth, the stubborn Catelyn Stark, the pragmatic Margaery Tyrellden, the dangerous Melisandre of Asshai and the even more frightening Cersei Lannister are all strong-willed, complex women who take great location – and driven by various reasons: power hunger, fair pathos, loyalty, revenge.

But coolest of all of them is Daenerys Targaryen, Mother of Dragons. She gets up from the total humiliation and deprivation and just rule. She switches to the 8000 castrated slave soldiers against their biggest dragon, but lurking slave owner and let him be burned by the dragon’s fire. Daenerys Targaryen (“Shakira”) to release all slave soldiers, but they choose to follow her as free men and show their loyalty by banging their sticks in the ground.

I do too. I beat the stake in the ground for “Game of thrones”.