Game of What the Fuck is Happening Here?

[brigid]

This post is going to have spoilers so if you haven't seen the most recent episode of Game of Thrones, just keep on scrolling.

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[brigid]

i really like that idea, but i just can't view GRRM as the type of writer who would rely on a metaphor that complex, just because all the other subtleties of the series "the starks are connected to their wolves!" "jon snow is probably not really ned's kid" are pretty heavy handed

[brigid]

i don't think they can address it in show, since i think the entire season is already wrapped. though if they release a statement that in and of itself would mean a lot

[brigid]

see, then i read another interview with the director where he said he felt the best scene he'd directed was the one between tywin & cersei, just in terms of her non verbal acting. this is one of the shortcomings of releasing 1 large interview and then having it copy & pasted all over the place since things (possibly) get taken out of context

[spitcurl]

Period sex = big nono in catholic medieval europe. So menstrual, incestuous, funeral, church sex = WORST SINNERS EVAR. Far far worse than a man having his way with a woman (in the eyes of church, medieval europe, or Westeros).

It was also illegal in medieval europe to have sex: during Lent, or for so many weeks after the birth of a baby, or during the Christmas holidays, or any number of times of the year. It was probably meant as a form of planned parenthood/good hygiene as much as sinfulness.

But then again, it was also sinful and illegal to "Knead Bread Dough with One's Buttock's" or "Put Menstural Blood in your Husband's Food." (Those crazy catholics!)

[brigid]

i did not know about kneading dough with your butt. that's pretty impressive

[spitcurl]

Not really Catholic, but the newer head of the southern church of the Seven seemed far more Spanish Inquisition-like, at least in my memory of the last few books and Cersei's punishment (of which I am foggy on details it turns out).

[brigid]

oh right, because she brings back some hardcore sect because they have money or something, right?
i think my memory of the series completely falls apart after book 3

[brigid]

the more i think about this and the more i think about the arbitrary additions of murdered or raped women, the more pissed off i am getting

[spitcurl]

RIGHT???

It'll look very Scarlet Letter-y now, except without the consensual part of the Scarlett Letter.

[spitcurl]

Yes exactly. :/