Ed Sheeran's GameOfThrones cameo showed a lack of respect and understanding for the careful world-building that needs to be maintained when you create a universe from scratch. sangeetaskurtz writes
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I remember it well. It was 2017: I was watching the season-seven premiere with a group of friends when Arya stumbles across a group of enemy soldiers. One of them is singing. I recognize that voice, I thought. No, they wouldn’t have. And there appeared Sheeran, sitting around a campfire with other soldiers and singing in a strangely self-conscious voice: “For she was his secret treasure / She was his shame and his bliss / And a chain and a keep are nothing / Compared to a woman’s kiss.
I went fishing once. Bored out of my mind, I began to think of the little fish swimming along pleasantly in their watery world when, all of a sudden, they get yanked out of it and thrown into another, this one a harsh and uncompromising wasteland. I can imagine it’s a dreadful feeling, and that is how I felt seeing Sheeran in this episode of Game of Thrones: like I had been swimming along in my sublime fictional universe before being plopped into a different, much less magical one.
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