Greenpeace Spoofs Season 6 in “Winter Is Not Coming”
By Ani Bundel
Full disclosure: My area of the planet has been very odd this week. It’s December, and it’s usually about the time when we all are bundling up in winter coats. This week, I wore shorts while walking to the local mega mart, because it was practically summertime temperatures. This, as everyone in my local social media area agreed, was not normal. More than one shared variations on the following meme:
Now, more than one thinkpiece writer has delved into the idea that Game of Thrones is so popular because it’s tapping into our subconscious fear of climate change. Whether or not that’s true, Greenpeace has decided to take the idea to heart. The French arm of the international group has decided to make their own trailer for the upcoming Season 6. There’s just one little problem. Winter is not coming, so…
(Translation: “A few degrees more, and it changes the whole story. Melting ice is only one of consequences of climate change that threatens our planet.”)
Personally, though it would be thoroughly anti-climactic, don’t you think Jon Snow would have been more than a little relieved to see the White Walker headed his way fall through the ice and drown at Hardhome? Certainly, it would have saved thousands of wildling lives. A downer on the drama front, but you know, the Lannisters certainly would have filled that gap, especially once they were confronted by dragons.
But still, I suppose the point is taken. Now, since they pointed out how to solve the White Walker menace, does Greenpeace have any explanations for how the show can solve the show’s problem of Brantree’s plotline being not-very cinematic by climate change?