Yeah there were quite a few white Italians taken into slavery by dark skinned Muslims a millennium ago.
TV: Game of Thrones
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The biggest and most brutal slavers in history were the Africans and Arabs. They probably still are in fact. Behind some efforts in East Asia, Europeans were the first to start abolishing it.
What's on par with our history is not necessarily a white person being enslaved, though they were pretty valuable, so much as the slaver happening to be dark skinned.
I hope you don't think that I was being sarcastic, I can't tell. But yeah, you're completely right. I forgot about modern day slavery as well. Qatar visa slavery is pretty prevalent in particular.
The only "crazy magic-like shit" Arya's done in the books thus far was wearing a glamour for a day. It's my view that they're skipping all the best parts of her training, but I have to admit that even those wouldn't be especially fun to watch. It's a very long, tedious process in the books, with a lot more stages of training and each stage being a several-month-long process.
Anyone else really, really underwhelmed by that last fight scene with Bronn, Jaime, and the Sand Snakes? Did they get a new choreographer (for some reason), or was the regular one just thrown way outside his comfort zone by the demand to incorporate a bunch of absolutely silly, desperately show-offish and impractical moves into it? It was terrible to watch, really.
The Walking Thrones?
His is going to be the fucking fury, though.
But who really didn't expect that to look terrible.
Outside of the unexpected shenanigans in the pits, I wasn't a big fan of last episode. A lot of it felt like simple scenes of set-up for next episode (e.g. Jon actually getting inside) and/or the execution of simple things that were already very well setup to happen (e.g. what the Lady in Red did, friendly diplomacy in Dorin).
The Rooster Teeth Podcast spoiled for me the bit with the BBQ. God dammit Barbara. I feel as though this episode 9 climax was pretty lackluster in comparison to that of other seasons. Remember Ned getting his head lopped off? And the Battle of the Blackwater? The Red Wedding? The Battle of Castle Black? Those were all fucking insane episodes. All we got this season was some shitty assassination attempt and 30 seconds of cool dragon CGI, followed by another 30 seconds of shitty dragon CGI.
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Agreed.
