THey tried to depict a scene where he tears her clothes off and she continually says no as consensual? Sounds like backpedaling to me. No way the people on this show are that bad at their jobs.

I just assumed it was Jamie trying to 'win' Cersei back, pretty much without realizing he was raping her. It was a show of power, a last ditch effort to make him love her again. To him it wasn't the same as some soldier raping a random peasant girl. It as rape, but I truly doubt he saw it that way.

Sorry, I'm back. This seems to boil down to people who read the books feel like they have some sort of ownership over the way the show is run and how the story is depicted on screen. You say it's a pointless rape because you assume you know how the rest of the story is going to be told, although that didn't seem to…

But he's so handsome.

Definitely. It gets lonely up in those Andes. Men need an outlet for all that stress.

Should have never been a rape according to whom? Her? You? The creators of the show feel it should be depicted this way, let them depict it this way and see how it ends up before you start saying it should never have happened.

Yep, there was no way they were holding hands. I, too, thought she was going to pull the corpse down on top of them, which would have just been insane.

Gotta say the title pretty much undermines the serious intent of the article, too.

Can we get the twitter troops on this?

"Now, don't get me wrong. The show could deal with the fallout of this rape, but for the sake of this article and a point I'm trying to make, let's just assume it won't."

"The Youtube Generation"

Wait until they see that girls sword "Needle".

John Woo's Throne Games

Stop being so cheap! Upset that the wedding leftovers went to the kennels instead of you?!

When that water breaks I want to see gallons and gallons of fluid all over the place! I want to see people slipping and falling on their faces! And make it happen at the most inopportune time possible! Like at that big job interview or during the big game!

You've never seen a cute mom out with her friends for that one night a month. A couple of appletinis and…I've said too much.

You're old enough to know that single moms are kind of awesome, bro!

34? And PREGNANT? Nearly middle-aged women be sluts!

Enough with the superhero origin stories, already.

None of this is about 'liking' anybody. It's just about searching for them.