Understanding the Argument of the story (Game of Thrones)

Analysis and Review
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Hey Andreas. Welcome.

I love Game of Thrones. We had a discussion about it here: Game of Thrones

That said, I’m not sure if it’s really the best show to approach learning Dramatica to start with for two reasons:

  1. It’s not finished yet (you really can’t understand a narrative argument until you can see it holistically i.e. from beginning to end), and

  2. From a Dramatica perspective, GoT is actually a ton of different stories in one work. Each of those storyforms (assuming they are grand argument stories) presents its own narrative argument.

So I think to support what the video is saying using Dramatica, you would have to parse out each different storyform/narrative argument and then compare them to see if there is, in fact, some thematic/philosophical congruence between them (like, existentialism trumps essentialism). That sounds like a great project for a PhD dissertation BTW.

But if you’re just learning, it’s probably is easier to find an existing analysis on the Dramatica site of a film you like (or at least know well) that has a single storyform and then read the analysis (or listen to the Dramatica user’s group podcast). The entire Narrative First site is also a tremendous resource for this too.

Just my two cents.