No. Journalism and the art of criticism is dying. This is a prime example and it's also what's wrong with focus groups. Seemingly, no one understands the storytelling process.

Then stop talking about it and stop watching. They don't care what a noisy contingent of people who spend their time angrily complaining on the Internet have to say. They do care about ratings.

He pushed a child out of a window. Seems like everyone let that slide.

Because intent does matter, regardless of what the PC Death Squad says.

Take it up with him. I'm not arguing what did happen. I'm arguing how it was meant and why you won't get a satisfying, scenery chewing soliloquy from Cersei on the matter.

Then get used to wondering why she shrugged it off.

There's a chasm between acknowledgement and intention.

"Well, it becomes consensual by the end" - Alex Graves, director of said episode and scene.

32, reread that.

In the books, he is 9.

It's a medieval period, not "the Middle Ages"… we had far less in the way of dragons.

I'm probably gonna get a lot of flack for this, but here goes. The rape scene wasn't hanging over anything because, as was established by the director, it wasn't intended to be a rape scene.
If anything, it's made more puzzling by the fact that Jaime and Cersei seemed back to normal bickering and have seemingly moved…