In the books Jamie takes an honorable turn after A) spending time with Brienne and B) getting away from his sociopathic sister. So with the Sept scene they really raped both characters.

Seriously fuck that show. It’s so fucking stupid. I can’t believe I got suckered back into that nonsense. We only have one doctor & we let her go on a supply run for reasons? Also yes please allow her to deliver the 3483498342384234u7 speech about life, live & the pursuit of whatever the fuck out in the open when…

Since that didn’t happen in the book (I’ve never read it I have just heard about it) I do kinda pretend it didn’t happen. Same with Jaime and Cersei. Both rapes just ruined the consistency in the character development and made no sense at all, so I tune it out for my own viewing.

I love fantasy, but I hate how every story people can believe in dragons before they believe in:

I tried to get into GoT but couldn’t do it because of the rape and sexual violence. That combined with the general gratuitous violence turned me off from what was otherwise an interesting show.

I think the most recent season of both shows suffer from a similar ‘lazy writing’ issue, where instead of writing good story, as they’ve done in the past, they started writing characters inconsistently because they couldn’t say, be bothered to write a good reason why Daryl’s legendary woodsman skills wouldn’t have…

I’d prefer it if co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss would consider giving me 10-hour seasons of television that contain more than 2.5 hours of compelling content. Because, as someone who has no interest in reading the books, I view every season of the show as three-ish great episodes hidden among seven…

Bobby, we don’t always agree, but I am with you 1000% on this one.

Honestly, I thought the reaction was a little over-much (but I still understand where it’s coming from. Until these things are not commonplace, they are still sorta shitty).

That being said, Gap’s response was pretty awesome. No hand-wringing, just “We offended people. We’re acknowledging that, and we’ll change what’s…

the result of this kind of untethered manufactured outrage will be that advertisers will be hesitant to use models of color at all. why bother if someone on the internet will find something to raise hell about or interpret some aspect of your ad as ‘racist’ no matter what? you want a photo of an older child cheekily…

Yes, the first thing that struck me was that she looked really unhappy.

So the writer admits it’s all in their own head, because they were coming to the viewing of this with that horror in mind already? I suppose that’s good to know.

lol. I can’t. So basically, she watched an episode of underground, and was just super in her feelings. Girl. Take a seat.

I don’t love the photo choice - it draws odd attention to her, with that pink shirt, but she is so unhappy looking compared to the other girls. I don’t know how much I agree that it was racist, but I do think it’s mediocre ad design, and they could have done better.

She cannot be serious:

Usually I scoff at the notion of overzealous “PC culture” (blech, I don’t even like typing it) running out of control....

Ugh...come on people...

I think you really have to want it to be offended by this one.

Not pictured: the Gap Kids ad from just a few years ago wherein a black model was using a white model as an armrest in almost the exact same pose.

I like these ads.