#preston jacobs

[blackcat419]

I’m genuinely loving Preston Jacobs and how over he is with HotD. He’s like the only ASOIAF YouTube not bootlicking the series right now.

Preston, I’m sorry about anything I’ve said in the past, you are my guiding light in this hbo darkness

[buckfastbjork]

[i-kin-george-costanza]

I dont know why people call Preston Jacobs tinfoil when David 'LML' lightbringer graces the internet with his crackpot theories

[jackoshadows]

Sorry for the confusion, according to Preston Jacobs Bloodraven has no idea who the Three Eyed Crow is and he really does seem confused when Bran asks. It's because Bran himself is, from the future. Bloodraven also says you can't influence the past but Bran clearly can re: Hodor. And this isn't from Preston Jacobs but we do know a future Bran because in the original outline Bran sits on the throne and he has a bitter enemy, Jon. Not connected to this but Bloodraven has a bitter enemy, a brother.

You made me listen to Preston Jacobs for an hour to answer this ask! The mental pain! Hey, at least listening to him made me chop up my onions and veggies faster to prepare lunch 🤣.

The stuff about GRRM's earlier time travel novels and GRRM's take on time travel is interesting. He seems to be basing his theory on GRRM's approach to time travel being time travel by consciousness - like Bran and Hodor - instead of the physical body traveling, which would seem to not have the problems with causal loops and temporal paradoxes like the grandfather paradox.

Consciousness cannot be separated from the physical but GRRM is writing magical fantasy so anything's possible. I also noted his Tyrion like character in the siege story is similar to Abner Marsh in Fevre Dream. Tyrion has always reminded me of Sydney Carton in the Tale of Two Cities, but GRRM seems to be going for a different ending for his Tyrion like characters in these books.

Ultimately time travel is complicated and also introduces myriad possibilities of where the story can go. A time traveler who can just inject his consciousness into anyone is god like and could explain Bran on the Iron throne. Bran changed Hodor's life and the direction it took. How many other lives can he change?

Maybe it's not even Bran on the Iron Throne but a character with Bran's consciousness and Benioff and Weiss overly simplified it and just put Bran there? It's clear D&D didn't understand anything in the slightest about Bran.

However, too much time travel will also take away the agency of other characters and dilute their actions. Considering that GRRM prides himself on his books not using too much magic and being about 'the human heart in conflict with itself' and the very hard and the very real human choices that these characters make, Bran going back and influencing these characters to do things would pretty much rubbish all that. It then becomes all about Bran, it's Bran story - his decisions, his human heart in conflict with itself. Which is possible. But it would certainly take away from my enjoyment of the story if that's the case

Jon's choice to save Arya wouldn't matter - it was Bran manipulating events to get Jon dead. See how unsatisfying that would be? Imagine such changes for the whole story. Free will incredibly diluted by magical time traveling Bran. It would be as unsatisfactory as the show where none of the character choices mattered to the ending.

I also disagree with there being a time traveling Bran different from our regular Bran - it conflicts with Preston's own theory about time traveling Bran being a greenseer/genetically able to time travel and therefore regular Bran is the one who has the ability to time travel and not some time traveler consciousness in regular Bran. In which case regular Bran and time traveling Bran existing in the same timeline would be a paradox - which is what GRRM is trying to circumvent with consciousness.

I still think there will be some sort of disagreement between Jon and Bran. I just don't see it the way Preston does. I disagree that Bran/Bloodraven is sending Ned and Catelyn visions to Jon to make him refuse WF. This is what I mean by too much magic taking away character agencies and taking away from the story.

So no, I don't agree with Bloodraven and Bran being the same person and I think despite BR not explicitly calling himself 3ER, the text makes it clear that it's him. Plus, in the appendix:

THE THREE-EYED CROW, also called THE LAST GREENSEER, sorcerer and dreamwalker, once a man of the Night’s Watch named BRYNDEN, now more tree than man.

[roxannepolice]

A youtuber that gets some ads revenue and Patreon donations: So here's a two hour long video essay on how Brienne's story relates to Heidegger and Sartre, with Lady Stoneheart presenting her with an existential choice that represents the moral heart of the entire ASOIAF, elevating it to a philosophical performance of sorts.

HBO hired writers who have been paid more for adapting those books than many people will see in their lifetime: HURR DURR, if Catelyn can come back everyone can come back.

[catherinexlinton]

I need preston jacobs to chanel the pure essence of disappointed and rage I feel in me in regard to westworld.

nothing matters and everything lacks logic. death has no weight and life has no meaning. there is no relationships and interaction to bond with ( with exception of stubbs/bernard, when the latter left the first dying in the tub to log into sublime to chill ) everything is sexless, emotionless, stale. it feels like reading a thesis written by a sixth greder, where they mention lots and lots of things and explore none, and those they do, contradict in blatant way. the story so convoluted and so up it’s ass that it fails to be a story.

westworld, fuck you. 

[selkiewife]

GOT Season 8 Fixed, Part 1

GOT Season 8 Fixed, Part 1 by Preston Jacobs

Okay, as promised, here is the Season 8 Fixed videos by Preston Jacobs. @kat-snow2613​ told me about these and I am so happy she did! His whole thing with his fanfic of Season 8 is to try to get all of the characters to the exact same endings that they had in Season 8, but in a much more satisfying way. So, Content Warning: that means that a lot of the characters will still have tragic ends (such as Dany, Theon, etc) but the way he gets there is entirely different. I honestly thought the whole thing was brilliant and would love to discuss it with other people if you’ve seen it or if you decide to watch it now. At the same time, even though some things I agreed with completely, other things I did end up truly missing which end up making me appreciate and being more positive about the things I did love about Season 8. For example, Theon reuniting with Sansa and the way Brienne was knighted- as well as POD’S SONG haha. My personal fix for that particular situation is to just have a longer season so that we could breathe a little and get those emotionally satisfying moments in there, while still having a cohesive season that makes logical sense. But everything else I thought felt so true to the show. None of the character’s actions (Bran, Jon, Dany) are completely defensible or indefensible in the end and I’m sure there would have been lively debates about it for a long time to come. I am also sure that people would have still complained. I would have. Theon still dies for example- but the way it happened did make sense and was absolutely heartbreaking. But being able to listen to this version of the story after going through the horror show logic of season 8 was actually truly cathartic and gave me a sense of closure. I hope you enjoy it as well! And come talk to me about it if you watch it!

[crisisoninfintefandoms]

I’m aware that a lot of Preston Jacob’s theory videos are kinda cracky and definitely over-intricate and long, but I still find them entertaining just because he’s out here going, “Look, I have read everything George RR Martin has ever written and, well...I’ve got some shit to say.”