What scene was that? I can’t remember it.
They didn’t. The producers were quite clear about it, while it might have looked like rape it wasn’t in fact rape.
People were gravely offended because they showed a rape and then called it consensual. The episode before had a bunch of soldiers raping a tavern maid and the episode after that had some deserters raping a group of women while chanting “rape them until they are dead”. Nobody batted an eye at either of those, so it’s not a problem with just rape.
I assume they’re referring to marital rape of Dany by Drogo.
Then they did a very poor job.
Yes. And that was a poor choice to deviate from the book too. In the book that scene shows why she falls in love with Dorgo. That makes a lot less sense as filmed. But then again she is 14 in the book and they had to change that too.
Ok, thanks. I was thinking that was in a later episode. I didn’t remember it being in the first one.
Well, I used to be a fan of the books but I eventually quit reading them because the gruesome torture and violence, including rape and many other things, was getting out of hand. As I’ve said before, one can only read about people being forced to eat their severed body parts a certain number of times before it becomes kind of off-putting. Just my opinion, of course.
How does this make a non-self defense murder any less disturbing though? I think basically society is almost “comfortable” at the idea of killing somebody (at least if they’re a “bad person” ie in war or execution) but rape is the final frontier due to it being a violent crime that’s sexual in nature.
I couldn’t put into words the difference between the two, but you nailed it.