Just because it's a TV show about a fantasy world doesn't mean it can't/shouldn't depict unpleasant things in that fantasy world that unfortunately reflect unpleasant things that exist(ed) in the real world.

I agree.

Yeah, basically all this shit — except much, much worse — happens in the books, but it happens to a tertiary character rather than Sansa, so it's okay. I guess.

I honestly don't understand what you're asking. Do you mean, if Arya's storyline could end in her not (so far) being dead, then couldn't Sansa's storyline end in her not (so far) being raped? Sure! But at what point should the narrative have diverged, in your mind? And at what point are you writing your own show in…

Not to mention she was married (of her own free — ish — will) to a person who is not an above-and-beyond-for-this-society decent human being (for the most part) like Tyrion. Of COURSE her wedding night ended in her being raped. Ramsay could be a standard dude in that society rather than a psychopath, and this is still…

Look, I don't like what happened, and I'm going to be irritated if the show uses Sansa's wedding night rape as agency for Theon rather than Sansa (don't get me started on how this episode tried to show Sansa as empowered against the kennel master's daughter for fuck's sake but not Ramsay), but wouldn't it be worse —…

Unless Book-Baelish is as much or more a villain as any of the other psychopaths on this show and doesn't actually give a good god-damned about Sansa. Hell, do you really think most people in this society even think of wedding night sex as being rape (it IS, of course, but would Baelish or anyone else actually think…

I get the feeling you're focusing only on the physical consequences because this is male-on-male rape. If Claire's and Jamie's positions were swapped here, would you be cavalierly suggesting that she lie back and think of England? If not, then why are you reducing Jamie's trauma to only the physical (and frankly I…

A lot of people go on vacation Memorial Day weekend. I myself will be at the beach, without STARZ (I know, my life is HARD). I do think pausing shows for holidays is becoming archaic, given the proliferation of free streaming, but I get why it's still a thing.

God that's the worst in the GoT "expert" reviews. I've read the damned books but I still prefer the "newbies" review (where I tread carefully) because I really don't give a good God damn whether events transpire on the screen exactly as they did in the books. Actually, I prefer they don't, for the most part. It's the…

Dude, I've never been sexually assaulted, but my understanding is that it's far more than a physical assault and much harder to recover from than physical injury. I'm sure each person handles it differently, but the general narrative seems to be that the physical violation is the least painful part.

Um, I'm pretty sure the worst thing ever, in this case, is rape.

Seeing a hardcore Christian from Texas nonchalantly man-snuggling warms my heart.

Yeah, it's kind of pathetic. They would race along the fence line, back and forth. Her fence was shorter than our fence, so he would always stop and turn at the end of her fence (actually, she was younger and faster than him, so he often cheated and turned early to try to beat her). There's a deep grass-less groove…

Aw, I like this season. Then again, my first season was South Pacific, and I fell in love with the show, so apparently I am very easily pleased by Survivor (since I'm assured that South Pacific sucks).

I never wondered about the real-world uses of grappling hooks, but I do now.

In the Ponderosa video the editors made sure to keep in a bit with Dan perving on one of the medical staff, prodding her to call him "manly and rugged," and she's like, "That's not the first thing that comes to mind, no."

In his Ponderosa video, Dan tells Tyler that everyone knew about his advantage, and Tyler says the only person he told was Carolyn, so Carolyn must have told everyone else.

I wasn't that into Hali until I saw her hug-block Dan. Now I want her to be my best friend.

I really don't understand Dan's hangup about Mike *almost* sabotaging the auction. He didn't go through with it! Dan got his fucking letter, and the advantage! Yet Dan's narrative is that Mike is a snake, the same as it would have been if Mike had actually completed his move. It makes me wonder if Dan has rewritten…