China Heavily Censored ‘Game of Thrones,’ & This Might Be Why
So Thardoor has sought to find a deeper potential as to why rulers might be so fearful of this show in particular, so in his argument, he likens The Wall to The Great Wall, and in perhaps the most valid comparison, he likens Targaryens to people who fled to Taiwan:
The most storied noble house in “Game of Thrones” is that of the Targayens, the silver-haired, dragon-riding family that begins the show in exile across the sea. We learn that the Targaryens once ruled all of Westeros until a rebellion, punctuated by a few hideous slaughters, chased them to a small, craggy isle off the coast called Dragonstone. Not long after the last of the Targaryens flee the island for more distant hideaways, the rock becomes the fortress of Stannis Baratheon, another lord who thinks himself the true ruler of Westeros. Dragonstone exists in the series as a permanent reminder of dissent, brooding sullenly off the shores of the realm.
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