Well, it's absurd. Just FYI. I mean the sexual politics in which the concepts of 'slut shaming' (putting aside the major issues with that concept itself) emerged, compared to the sexual politics of what is effectively 14th century Europe with dragons, is so far apart that the concept fails to have any relevance.

Much more so than the books.

You're kidding, right? GOT has no problem with portraying consensual sex, and has done so already with the same two characters.

The only thing they trigger is false outrage and the high people get from that false outrage.

Seriously? You're trying to project the concept of ''slut-shaming'' into a fictional medieval fantasy world?

Neither. It's fiction. Rape is just easier to muster up false outrage (and clicks and ad revenue) with.

You mean they don't force the Gold Cloaks to sit through sexual harassment seminars on signing up?

I'm insightful like that.

I always understood that she aborted it in the show just as she did in the book, but that she was just lying about it to Cat as a portrayal of false sympathy and a bit of character building exposition. The implication was definitely there for the viewers, even if they never stated it outright.

Are you saying they portrayed it as being good somehow?

Because the contentious title gets clicks and ad revenue, and we can argue and get outraged about a highly charged topic in a meaningless comment section on some shitty corner of the internet because we have nothing better to do with our lives.

How is it sugar coating? Sex isn't divided into signing a consent contract on the one hand and R.A.P.E. on the other hand, and trying to portray it that way is unrealistic and insulting.

They don't forget, they just don't care. You can love a badass character for being a badass without supporting their behavior on a moral level from a modern, real world perspective. Vader blew up Alderaan, but he was cool as hell while he did it.

She is much quicker to take up Lancel in the show way back in S1 (and the replacement angle is skipped over), which adds another altered dynamic.

But she was kinda worried about getting caught, so it was actually rape! Call the consent cops!

Really? You've watched the show for 4 years and somehow missed the fact that it's based on a series of widely read & discussed books?

I've never seen anyone treat Jaime as ''more noble than he really is.'' If anything the show vilifies him and casts him in some kind of absurd Darth Vader role which viewers mostly accepted, compared to his much more grey and neutral (if questionable) portrayal in the books.