Meh. Can't bring myself to watch Game of Thrones S5.
I'm so unenthusiastic about Game of Thrones. I haven't watched the season opener yet, and I'm not really motivated to. None of the characters interest me right now.
( Lots of squee-harshing character-disliking grumping under the cut, including spoilers up to the finale of S4, but not the new S5 ep )
( Lots of squee-harshing character-disliking grumping under the cut, including spoilers up to the finale of S4, but not the new S5 ep )
I wasn't comfortable with the way rape was presented in the books for some of the same reasons I'm not comfortable with it on the show. I'm thinking specifically of Dany's relatiosnhip with Drago. I'd heard that in the book, the "underage girl is forced to marry barbarian who rapes her and gradually she falls in love with him" plotline was less rapey and awful, and that in the book, Drago actually didn't force her to have sex with him, but waited until she wanted to.
To me, that wasn't what it read like at all. It was an even worse instance of "rape a woman properly and she will love it" than the TV version, for me; it just went more quickly. He didn't wait to sleep with her until she was ready; he slept with her the same night they were married. She was simply ready immediately, because as soon as he touched her a little, she became willing - rape-to-love in a single sex act. And the dwelling on the details was very squicky to me, especially given that it was also made very clear that she was something like 14 years old.
for one hour, ten episode seasons you'd think they would reduce the rape in favor of actual plot, but nope
The show makes some very bad choices in terms of what to devote time to, IMO... I usually fast-forward through about 30% of any given ep, and recently it's been getting more and more.
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