"Needlessly" is the operative word

If you find rape more repulsive than murder, I suggest your moral compass is terribly broken.

No dissent allowed! We want our uncritical hugbox please! Different opinions upset me!

Men are objectified just as much as women, in this show and elsewhere.Not all objectification is sexual you know.

Given numerous other changes from the book for added brutality, I don't see why this change should solicit more complaints than them. Talisa, who didn't even exist in the books, taking a knife to the gut jumps to mind. If anything was included deliberately for shock value it was that.

The victims of murder are not confined to the murdered. It includes those who's lives are destroyed when their loved ones are murdered.

No, this is not a discussion of literary purists against those who prefer a looser adaption. If it were it would be complaining about the purple wedding being held outdoors.

The penny should have dropped for you when Jamie became a kinslayer by murdering his cousin in the show.

Do you actually believe that being raped is worse than to be murdered?

Yes book Cercei and show Cercei are different, you prefer one to the other, that's fine, but this scene was not gratuitous given the dynamic of the relationship as adapted for the show.

That's not what I am arguing at all, but I understand why you would attempt to box me in as such, in order to more easily condemn me and that "mindset"

No it isn't.

It is consistent with the way Jamie and Cersei's relationship has been portrayed in the show to date, and how their characters have been portrayed; That she was never a fully willing participant, and that it probably began on Jamie's initiative and against her objections.

And it is entirely possible that it has not been altered for mere shock value.

So many scenes have had their tone changed entirely from the books, why are you complaining about this one? Because it removes her agency? Is this some sort of unforgivable sin of adaptations? The one line that must not be crossed?

Not to mention there was no explicit first hand depiction of wildlings slaughtering peasants. When can we expect an article from the av club condemning that scene for using violence against the common people for shock value?

No it doesn't help. Why is portrayal of other horrible things ok only so long as they were in the book? They are still horrible things.

I actually think it would have been a thousand times worse legitimizing incest. Instead, as I said, it shows that Jaimie and Cercei's relationship is unhealthy.

There are no murder victims to be traumatized because they are dead, but their loved ones remain to be traumatized.

Glorification? Is any depiction of rape in the media automatically glorification? This one didn't seem particularly glorious to me.