Game of Thrones’ High Sparrow didn’t rape, murder, or pillage — why did viewers hate him anyway? - Vox

 

"On the show and the books, [the High Sparrow] is an apparently sincere man of the people, one of the few commoners to play a political role in Westeros," he wrote. "He champions equality before law, redistribution of wealth—ideas far closer to liberal values than anything his antagonists support. It is impossible, based on the text, to imagine a Westeros ruled by the Faith Militant would be worse off than the Westeros we see."

"My point," he concluded, "is just that it says something interesting about the story itself and (especially) our pop culture mavens that so many people identified with the privileged warmongering aristocrats in their struggle to crush the story’s lone popular uprising."

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Game of Thrones’ High Sparrow didn’t rape, murder, or pillage — why did viewers hate him anyway? - Vox: "