Posted on 05/20/2015 6:47:10 AM PDT by C19fan
Freedom of speech, remember that? Do what I do when confronted with subject matter I find offensive to me, change the channel, turn it off, read a book, clean your house, walk away, do something else. The Senator has no more right to dictate what anyone watches than Mrs. Obama has telling us what our children can eat. I do find it amusing she was ok with the series until now (crucifying, beheading, burning people alive, raping, torturing, etc.)! When there is no audience or customer base for something, it goes away. Game of Thrones mirrors, in a grand scale, good vs. evil, very much like what we live with today.
This will go nowhere. Millions and millions enjoy and watch GOT and relatively few have heard of McCaskill. This is just Claire playing to the “war on women” in order to gin up campaign contributions. Few if any regular viewers will pay her any heed and viewership will probably be increased from this publicity. She is best ignored.
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This thread involves discussion of Game of Thrones S05E06. If you haven't seen this episode yet there may be spoilers here.
I generally don’t like the Wizards and dragons type of fantasy movies/shows. I was bored silly by Lord of the Rings. But I love GOT mostly because of the complex plots and characters and all the palace intrigue. The plots and plans within plots and plans I find fascinating. This is the same thing I enjoyed so much in the Dune series by Frank Herbert. GOT has also chosen excellent actors and given them awesome dialogue, who have been able to flesh out the character and make them very memorable, even the minor characters. It is infinitely better than anything coming out of Hollywood these days. Certainly better than yet another boring CGI laden superhero movie which has essentially the same plot as every other superhero movie but different costumes.
I never watch Games of Boring ,yawn
apparently the Senator had no problem with that!
(And just in the interest in further gas bag deflating, throughout history there have been arranged marriages. On the wedding night the wife would ALWAYS have sex - like it or not. To make matters even worse, typically members of both the bride and the groom's family would be present to make sure the deal was actually consummated. In the case of the nobility, there frequently had to be witnessed bleeding or the deal was off. Sorry, but history is history - whether it fits with popular current ideas or not!)
This thread really Ned’s more Game Of Thrones puns. :D
Sorry, that one sort of Reek’ed. :)
So skinning people alive or forcing rats to dig into their abdomens is ok, but a “rape” scene involving two newlyweds is not ok?
McCaskill would be great playing the part of an adult in a Charlie Brown cartoon. . . .
This is true. You do not actually witness the rape, except for the cries of Sansa. The character of Theon, however, tells you what is happening by his reaction and facial expressions. This "scene" actually did take place in the books; but, it was Jeyne Poole who was being passed off as Arya Stark (thereby giving the Bolton's legitimacy in their taking of Winterfell). Since we have not seen, nor heard, of Jeyne Poole since early in Season 1, they substituted Sansa Stark.
I have to wonder where they will take the Sansa storyline, now. They have significantly veered from the books, so there is no knowing what they will do next. The brief description of the next episode seems to point to Sansa changing Theon's allegiance back to the Stark side, but, we will have to wait and see.
Was she raped by her husband on her wedding night?
Blame it on Theon Greyjoy. He should have killed that pig Ramsay Snow when he had the chance.
Yes, I was surprised because I knew what was coming and figured it would be graphic and distasteful and instead the director conveyed so much with just sound and Theon's facial reactions.
To me "THAT" is the way to show such things rather than actual porn shots. And to me much more real and emotional.
It harkens back to an old gangster movie with James Cagney. Cagney is to be executed in the Electric Chair and the priest is trying to get him to repent for the sake of the neighborhood boys who worship the Gangster Cagney to show them the error of that life. Cagney tells the Priest no dice and he will spit in the eye of the executioner etc. Yet when they start to march Cagney to the chair you see his shadow struggling with the guards and him begging them not to kill him and then the director cuts to the Priest's Face as he realizes what is happening and the sorrow and horror he shows. That scene is much more emotional because you do not actually see what is going on it is implied by camera angles and sound and emotional reaction of the on screen observer.
I haven’t read that late in the books - what is Sansa doing in the books at that point except pretending to be Alayne Stone?
She and Baelish leave the Eyrie, that’s the last thing you read of them by the end of Dance with Dragons.
Theonly thing saving this thread is the puns!
I am sure many people think they are just Dany.
But I want to Davos myself from them because I can't Stannis all these Puns! :D
I Snow exactly what you mean, but I’m aFreyd that’s the way it’ll be!
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