I watched Jurassic World and I had a good time. It's a movie that has absolutely zero ambition of being an action/adventure classic like Jurassic Park and decides that there's nowhere to go but way over the top.

Yepp. Ramsay is such a shit character. Not even in the sense that he's such a bad person. He's just poorly conceived, poorly written, unrealistic, and boring.

I love that Hildy, of all things/people, is on here. She hasn't been on the show since, what, season 2? That actress was breathtaking, though.

I have my issues with the way GRRM writes anything involving female sexuality, but at least in the books, rape is usually portrayed as a horrific act. In the show, they often make rape more "palatable" by throwing in some pornographic imagery (see Dany's sexual assaults in season 1, Theon's rape, Ros's murder) or…

You can really tell how much Alexis Bledel does NOT want to be there in the last few seasons.

Yeah, you're cherry-picking information from that article. What is says is that the definition of rape worked against women, and it was difficult for women to prosecute (HUH, that last part sounds almost exactly like rape today). They still attempted to prosecute, however, and even that is a big difference from rape…

No one in the show who's raped is that young, but GRRM has an affinity for that dynamic, his defense always being that that's just how things were.

Yeah—because she was naked in that scene, I assume he had sexually abused her again before killing her. It really just further proves the point that they only sexualize violence when it's against or involves women.

Or maybe stay out of debates about dramatic storytelling involving complex human emotions/trauma if all you're going to do is dismiss opinions as "political."

The people complaining about this story didn't politicize rape. History, our legal system, and the perpetrators of rape politicized rape. Good storytellers understand it's a unique crime that doesn't exist in a vacuum and treat it accordingly.

No, not one single scene in GoT depicts non-sexual murder/torture as anything except awful. Theon's and Dany's and Ros's rapes, however, are all written/shot in ways that sexualize the women onscreen. This is why no one has faith in what D&D are doing with this Sansa storyline.

In other words, you think anyone who claims medieval Europe wasn't a GRRM-esque rape-fest and people weren't marrying 11-year-old girls left and right is a postmodern leftist. Mmkay. Where are the REAL sources, then?

NAH, I'm gonna go ahead and say plenty of people think there's something wrong with depicting rape for titillation purposes.

I agree. It always seemed they liked the idea of an asshole head of TV, but didn't feel like writing a new character, so they imprinted the personality onto Harry.

I loved almost everything else about this finale, but man, that scene with Stan/Peggy is probably my least favorite in the entire show. Worse than Don finger-banging Bobbi.

Are you seriously asking to see receipts for the claim that real medieval Europe was not, in fact, like Game of Thrones? lol ok. http://www.livescience.com/…

This notion that rape happened soooo often back then so basically there is no getting around depicting it in this fantasy story is one of the worst dearly-treasured beliefs that ASoIaF/GoT fans tend to have. This story is only very loosely based on actual medieval life. It is a fantasized, sensationalized, pulpy,…

Except that they could have just… not had Sansa marry Ramsay. So far their marriage doesn't really make sense from a narrative perspective or in the context of Littlefinger's schemes. Seriously, part of the reason this is so difficult to swallow is that Jeyne/Theon/Ramsay is a shitty and uncompelling subplot to begin…

Quantity has nothing to do with it. It's how the scenes are written, how they are filmed, how they contribute to the storytelling, etc.

There's a difference between depicting it and having a track record of shoehorning it into your storylines in exploitative, poorly thought-out ways.