Zetetic Elench

A song of Fire and Ice reloaded. There should be a much greater variety of weird creatures in Westeros. I'm thinking hoop snakes  and Goldenaxe-type beasties! And the Maesters actually invited the Targeryns to invade Westeros. In their citadel at Oldtown, the Maesters have access to highly advanced technology. They are able to access most Maester's residences via an advanced underground tube network. The North, meanwhile, has the remnants of a railway line. The dragons, it turns out, were all killed by the Targeryns' efforts at industrialisation. The tactics used by the Westerosi really ought to reflect the (past) existence of dragons, so a main development would not be mounted knights (heavy cavalry) but light mounted archers. Heavily armoured knights would be used only as a kind of police force to quell rebellions. Training for this would be the tournament, which would hold jousts. Perhaps the term "sheriff" would be used; or perhaps ...

I was going to title this  "In Defence of the Preludes", but if three films made over a decade ago have to be re-explained then either they were not very good in the first place or the people watching weren't really paying attention. And reference is made also to The Force Awakens. Soooooo, well the first critique of the Star Wars prequels is that Lucas keeps reinforcing the... Hang on, what message is he trying to say? In each film Palpatine gains more power at the hand of an ineffective Galactic senate. I understand the point about sacrificing liberty for efficiency but did this really need to be repeated three times? To underline the point that the senate will be dissolved later? It gets repetitive and it turns people off. The Father is the Hero and not the Son. When the original saga was completed, with the final release of "Revenge of the Sith", one could make the case that Anakin was the true hero after all by defeating the elitist Je...