I understand the definition of rape, I think we both know that isn't the issue, but I suppose ultimately this is a pretty ridiculous thing to be arguing about anyway. I think you're reading into things that aren't actually in the text and adding somewhat ambiguous secondary information into your analysis (like Martin…

She mentioned the Gods because they were in a church, not because she thought it was wrong. But again, that was an initial, and notably "feeble", objection that she casts aside seconds later when she's literally begging him to have sex with her. Sure, he instigated the encounter but it was clearly she who consummated…

I think that's only part of it. The larger complaint, as I see it, is that these two scenes took aspects of the characters from the books and totally reversed them in a way that makes very little sense aside from the "shock" value of the scene. Khal Drogo was an admirable, if brutal, character, and the love story with…

Having your halfhearted objections overcome by your own passion is NOT the same as being raped. She objected for reasons that had nothing to do with her own personal desire for sex, and upon becoming aroused she cast aside the fear of being caught or embarrassed and embraced her passion. It definitely read more like,…

That escalated quickly.