Posted on 05/20/2015 6:08:29 AM PDT by Marcus
“Game of Thrones” rarely fails to shock, filled as it is with atrocity porn. However, the brutal rape of Sansa Stark at the hands of the psychotic Ramsey Bolton at the end of Sunday’s episode seems to have crossed the line for many people. It is not like people haven’t been raped and worse before. Remember the Red Wedding, the beheading of Eddard Stark, and the castration and torture of Theon Greyjoy. But, Sansa is an innocent girl, though she has been getting progressively less naïve as the series has proceeded.
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tv not following the novel any more = bad story
I watched a couple seasons because someone told me it was the American Tolkien. However, the nonstop sex and violence and utter lack of any moral redeeming qualities mean it is nothing like Tolkien, an I have given up on it.
People are attracted to stories that reflect reality and put what they see or experience into some context. TV stories (especially non censored cable shows) have moved far beyond the one hour formula where a disconcerting problem begins the story at 9:00pm and by 10:00pm, the problem has been happily resolved and the characters who are meant to reflect the viewers leave content and happy. Also from an entertainment perspective sex, violence, decadence and dastardly behavior sells. When you think about it, the shows such as Game of Thrones merely reflect the modern culture and tastes it seeks to amuse.
Humble not liking a blogspot? who’da thunk it!
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What story? I am finished with the show after that. So far over the line, with such a good noble girl. The show looks amazing. But with 20 revolving characters I never get to follow anything for longer than just a few screen moments. Was growing rather tired of the show anyway. And I have patience. I can read a novel with chapters on the sewer system in Paris. (Les miserables). But I need plot. This is so numerous. With constant gratuitous violence and boobs for no purpose.
Its too brutal for me, which is funny, because I have been exposed to a lot of violence, blood, and gore in my life.
boobs for no purpose
Now THAT would be the epitome of an oxymoron!
Sansa blew it when she turned on and refused Brienne’s help. We also can’t forget how the mother of dragons turned her marital rape into a triumph.
For the life of me I can’t understand why people just don’t either:
A) turn the channel
B) don’t bother watching from the start
C) accept the fact that the show seems pretty much realistic when you read the history of the time and just accept you are going to be shocked.
To try to make this out to be some sort of attempt to shock based on today’s morality is just historically ignorant. This crap happened all the time throughout history. Religious morality is mostly based on combating what happened with regularity in certain periods of history.
And we STILL see it happening in various parts of the world we live in NOW.
I’ve never bothered to watch the show and it seems I made the wise decision. Vote with your cable remote.
Not interested in the books. Not interested in the series.
Showing the beheaded George W. Bush as a prop? And sniggering about it when they got caught?
“American Tolkien?!?”
Utter bullshite.
I am not buying the “Sansa” was raped thing. She knew very well what would happen after he married him.
But she didn’t know the kid is a full blown psychopath.
The best thing about Game of Thrones is that everybody dies, but the bastards get the most miserable deaths.
Well, while ‘Game of Thrones’ (GoT) is most certainly fiction, history is replete with equally horrid examples of rulers behaving badly. From ancient Ba’al infant sacrifices to Caligula & Nero to Countess Elizabeth Bathory, just to name a few. After all absolute rule tends to lead to absolute corruption (Lord Acton.)
Since I have yet to watch a single minute of GoT (I found the original books tiresome in that the hero were always killed and I am not that nihilistic), this has impact because it is visual media and this character was as close to a hero and innocent as any in the cast. My feeling is that if someone is revealed by this, why are they watching the series at all? After all, from what I know of the obvious back stories, this is going on behind the scenes everywhere!
Why does George RR Martin never use Twitter?
Because he killed off all 144 characters.
I’m more partial to narratives that resolve themselves. Unending soap-opera serialization was always a turnoff to me. I think it even goes back to when I was a kid and bought a comic book only to find the story “to be continued next issue.” That always burned me up! Felt cheated, and somewhat annoyed by a sense of manipulation, in that I was ‘expected’ to get addicted to some storyline and continue to shovel out hard-earned coins for further issues. I see a tv-show that leaves everything open and indicates I have to tune again next week, and I’m in the “to hell with that” mode.
It’s an interesting topic, because I recall some study I read over twenty years ago about men preferring closed narratives and women preferring open-ended serialization. It had to do with men psychologically looking at life as a series of individual events, while women psychologically looked at life as a sort of long, intertwining thread. A basic difference between men and women. I’ve often surmised that the cultural embrace of more serialized narratives in the past two decades was also reflective of the overall feminization of the culture.
AMEN
I totally am not seeing the problem here.
The Walking Dead will make you suicidal.
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