Then there is the sequel where the poo people fight back, but they do it in the wrong and bad way which really enforces why we kept them as poo people in the first place! Otherwise it upsets the natural hierarchy and don’t you know they just create their own hierarchy that is even worse because it doesn’t even acknowledge special people?
Edit: that also makes it praised for it’s ‘realism’.
There are a couple other book series like that too, I can’t be bothered to remember them, but they are definitely like that. One literally has the common side called ‘the revolution’, and basically makes the arguement that edgy magical libertarians are the only force that can save or doom humanity and the environment.
Yeah, the butcher bit was incredibly unnecessary, you could have just had them have the same economic failures that Dany was facing and had them fall that way. There was really no need to indulge in the ‘ignorant authoritarian peasant warlord’ fantasy.
In Gambo, the status quo was maintained and the naive attempt to improve society somewhat was thwarted, allowing the same bunch of hereditary sociopaths to regain and maintain control over a relatively stable ongoing regime, and the “no plot armor no favored characters” ego insert of the author got to be a special boy after all and wander off with all the cool mysterious nomad people. Also he had (CW: sexual violence and general GRRM creepiness)
spoiler
le sexy sex with the le crazy sexual violence victim that went too far then killed her
:so-true:
Disclaimer: Maybe “Winds of Winter” would have gone differently if the author could be bothered to finish it instead of being high on his own farts, but judging by how much more :libertarian-alert: there is in the books I don’t think it’d be less ideologically terrible than the show’s ending.
