DZ-34: Game of Choices - Decision Making and Character Implications

After a spectacular end to Season 6 of GAME OF THRONES, Chas and Stu were struck by the very different portrayals of Sansa in Episode 9 - Battle of the Bastards and Cersei in Episode 10 - The Winds of Winter. Despite both characters having an enormous impact on the narrative, the audience's experience of those characters is very different -- largely because Sansa is absent from 98% of Battle of the Bastards.

And thus: Stu and Chas embark on an exploration of how a writer's use of point of view - particularly in relation to how you show characters making decisions - can control how your audience perceives any given character (for good or ill).

Whether you are a Game of Thrones fan or not, we recommend you watch these two episodes for their contrasting but fascinating control of point of view and character. Both episodes were written by showrunners David Benioff & D. B. Weiss.

As always: SPOILERS ABOUND and all copyright material used under fair use for educational purposes.

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SHOWS

• GAME OF THRONES 6x9 "Battle of the Bastards" — Miguel Sapochnik (d), David Benioff, D B Weiss (w)
• GAME OF THRONES 6x10 "The Winds of Winter" — Miguel Sapochnik (d), David Benioff, D B Weiss (w)

LINKS

• Read: The AV Club: Thrones stages an epic battle, but to what end?

RELATED EPISODES

• DZ-05: Shifting audience point of view and heightened emotions
• DZ-20: Writing Strong Secondary Characters - Trinity, Bechdel and a Bamboo Killer
• DZ-33: Protagonist vs Hero - Dawn of Character Function

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