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Snoop Dogg Watches ‘Game Of Thrones’ For The History

by Elon James White|  May 14, 20151:40 pm| 9 Comments

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Turns out that Snoop Dogg is a big Game of Thrones fan. But he most likely doesn’t watch the show for the same reasons that you do:

When a reporter for the New York Post asked him about being a fan of the series, Snoop replied: “I watch it for historic reasons, to try to understand what this world was based on before I got here. …I like to know how we got from there, to here, and the similarities between then and now.” If you’re wondering “what similarities?” — the Post reporter posed the same question to Snoop. The answer, according to him, is pretty simple: “Kings still rule.”

Thanks, Snoop. We needed that.

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  1. 1.

    Bobby Thomson

    May 14, 2015 at 3:15 pm

    We live in Westeros?

  2. 2.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    May 14, 2015 at 4:04 pm

    Historic, I don’t think that word means what he thinks it means.

  3. 3.

    boatboy_srq

    May 14, 2015 at 4:59 pm

    It’s a good thing he didn’t watch LOTR for the geography.

  4. 4.

    celticdragonchick

    May 14, 2015 at 5:06 pm

    To be fair, it is loosely based on the Wars of the Roses, and the Red Wedding was based on two particularly nasty incidents from Scottish history: The Black Dinner of 1440 and the Glencoe Massacre in 1692.

  5. 5.

    boatboy_srq

    May 14, 2015 at 5:06 pm

    gay pedestrian crossing lights in Vienna

    The BBC article on this is priceless. INCLUSIVENESS! EUROVISION! Considering Conchita Wurst is both the last winner and a performer this year, it’s apropos to hear Snoop talk about “Kings rule” and segue to the Queen of Europe.

  6. 6.

    boatboy_srq

    May 14, 2015 at 5:08 pm

    @celticdragonchick: Yes, but there’s actual history that could have been used for this. Martin had to go and create a fictional world for everyone to die in rather than write a historically accurate telling of the actual death-and-dismemberment. Humph.

  7. 7.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    May 14, 2015 at 5:59 pm

    @celticdragonchick: The King ORDERED it!
    /Mad Men cross-stream

  8. 8.

    stickler

    May 14, 2015 at 8:41 pm

    Yeah, I’m torn by Snoop’s comment. On the one hand, Martin really does capture what pre- and early-modern European society was like: feudal, heirarchical, capricious. Iron-clad rules of behavior that are, in reality, honored in the breach as much as in practice — if you’re rich.

    But, yeah, Martin couldn’t just go with the gripping and blood-soaked awfulness that was real history, he had to throw in magic, zombies, and dragons. (Although, I suppose, since 15th-century Europeans believed those things were real, maybe you could make a case for that? Hmmm, no.)

    I mean, good God, just look at the family history of the freaking Habsburgs — uncles marrying nieces for generations until you got Charles II of Spain, who couldn’t even close his mouth when it rained. And whose death provoked what could arguably be called the first world war. Oh, and Habsburg ambitions in Germany were largely responsible for provoking the Thirty Years’ War, which ended up leaving a third fewer Germans in Europe by the time it ended.

    And don’t tell me you can’t make a great novel out of the Thirty Years’ War; Grimmelshausen already did it in 1668. Grimmelshausen didn’t include dragons, but he did include DRAGOONS, who could be pretty fire-breathing in their own way.

  9. 9.

    Jado

    May 15, 2015 at 10:29 am

    Tha DoggFather knows Metaphor??

    What am I saying – of COURSE Tha DoggFather knows metaphor.

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