On Game of Thrones 4.03
Like a lot of people, my knee-jerk reaction to the scene in which Jaime rapes Cersei in the sept (next to the body of their dead son, naturally) was very much Do Not Want, but I wasn't sure exactly why. It has been suggested that people are mad because they don't want to stan for a rapist, which is supremely insulting and also clearly not true
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Aaaaanyway... This is the first season I've watched with no book knowledge behind it so I didn't know what was coming and I didn't know it differed from what GRRM wrote (and, presumably, intended).
Whilst I found the scene horrifying, it didn't really stick out to me as more horrifying than many other things we've seen. I thought it was an interesting u-turn to make with how I'd been interpreting Jaime's arc, and I hated the way it seemed to be using rape to humanise Cersei, which is a tripe I HATE, and I haaaated Jaime's "god made me love a hateful woman, what happens next is not my fault" speech but... none of it seemed particularly out of character for the show/the books to date (Jaime's start along the road to redemption aside - and for all I knew, it was deliberate and followed the books for him and was going to become a part of the future of their arc).
ANYWAY, I'm rambling ( ... )
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Ugh. I wish you better luck with resisting in the future. I totally do this too though, unfortunately, though not on this article, yay me!
Whilst I found the scene horrifying, it didn't really stick out to me as more horrifying than many other things we've seen.Yes to this and everything you said after it, basically. Truthfully, the hunting scene from the beginning of the episode was more horrifying from a shock value standpoint to me than this was. I thought that Dany's rape in the pilot was more viscerally disturbing, as was the casual treatment of the sexual violence when Drogo's khalasar took Lhazar. Anything Ramsay Snow has done has been at least on par with the horror of this. And as far as characters being cruel to one another as a power play, essentially everything Joffrey has ever done to Sansa is pretty fucking awful ( ... )
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Incidentally, I also hate tripe! In case you were wondering!
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