The old knight who teamed up with Dany is a good example. Him dying doesn't make the show bad. But the scene where he dies in a generic fight because the script says so does because there's no intent. The sons of the harpy don't figure out how to fight a guy in plate or learn guerilla warfare

Incompetent execution ruins competent designs all the time. The show runners saw all the other properties offered to them and stopped giving a shit about finishing the show out which ironically is what got all those offers quietly rescinded

Put another way there are beliefs one can internalize and act on that are dangerous but I can't put much stock in ideologies that claim the act of learning about different forms of belief is itself dangerous or indoctrination

A lot of current republican ideology/rhetoric goes straight back to JBS and Buchanan & to that crowd the classes clearly infected us all with the woke cultural marxist mind virus by mere virtue of us being in the room. & they would rather dismantle higher ed than have anyone learn wrongthink

I think about this a lot because I was in some of those classes 10 years ago & was very confused as to anyone would endorse the use that language outside of the ivory tower of academia. Fwiw I got a lot out of said classes but it was tools for critical analysis not the language used

When people talk about PTSD do you insist it's called shellshock in your world