I was just telling my fiancé that we should use the rest of our wedding fund for this. The chance to meet LeVar and wear THE VISOR from TNG is a way better experience than a dumb wedding.

Jesus H, this even touched my shriveled, cynical heart.

Almost at 100!

Bullying in real life? Not ok. Bullying online? Not ok. Bullying in video games? Suddenly, that's ok cuz free speech. Fuck that shit. It's bullying, it's wrong, and it needs to be held accountable.

It would be better if she realized that racism, sexism, homophobia, etc were important before they directly impacted her. Ignorance - to a certain degree - is fine and everyone has to grow and learn and all that, but when you only recognize that inequality exists when it has some direct relationship to YOUR life then…

Right? I like how the ones offended by rape sem to ignore the murder of innocent people children, babies, the slavery, the detailed and drawn out scenes in which theon was violently tortured, All of the things, including the rape, are equally bad things. I'd also say the long drawn out torture is worse. That's why…

To use the quote from George RR Martin:

No, his character arc is NOT about becoming a better, more sympathetic person. Seriously, you act as though you've seen the whole show before it's even been made. Those of us who've read the books know that there is no black-to-white redemption story for Jaime. And if that somehow changes in the last two unpublished…

Considering all the rape we got in the background of Craster's Keep and no peep about it, it does come off as a double standard and more about them "ruining" Jamie then some issue of rape on screen.

With all of the actual rape that takes place in third world countries, you choose to write a massive article about fictional characters being raped in a popular TV show and how it offends you.

This story isn't exactly like the books - it's a slightly different story and they can tell it how they want.

This, so much of this. The dead children used as markers on the way to Meereen? No biggie. But an admittedly slightly rape-y scene between brother and sister, who were already incestuous? The internet flips the fuck out. It doesn't add up. Yes, they made it feel a bit more uncomfortable than the book did, but is…

The story has also had ample, and I mean ample, amounts of killing. Should they have steered clear of the Red Wedding on that basis? This seems a point that you and those agree with you seem to overlook: That horrible things happening is consistent with the Game of Thrones universe. I mean, a kid gets pushed out of…

And many of the characters in the show are actually a combination of multiple characters in the book. They are adapting the story and details as they see fit since season 1 to make it work. That's something a lot of people are conveniently forgetting. If you expected a literal recreation of "Game of Thrones" without…

Nobody overlooks it - we simply don't care.

And who makes the call that it needs more or less rape scenes? Us? No. It's up to the creators. Besides, it fit with the narrative of the story. They wanted more successors to the throne. And the point was to make it happen no matter what.

So let me get this straight:

Something I have felt for a long time as well, ME3 really got me pissed though. I actually enjoyed that ending to a certain extent, I thought it was epic. That is besides the point though, it is not the writers job to make sure their ending is there to please fans. It is the writers job to make a story and finish it …

Honestly, I'm getting tired of this growing attitude where fans think the story should be told the way they want it to be told. I've been getting sick of this attitude since Mass Effect 3. That's not how stories work. Someone writes it, someone else experiences it. The reader/viewer doesn't have to like it, but they…

Excellent article.