Exactly - any joke that makes two teenage girls cry is, objectively, not funny at all. That “it was funny” disclaimer at the end of those stories just sounded like someone being worried that they sounded too critical of someone who holds more power in the industry than them, and trying to course correct.

But we can look at the history of our own society and deduce that for the people living in it not every such situation is experienced as a trauma; that you don’t have the legal right to choose doesn’t mean that you don’t experience your own choice.

I don’t trust Martin’s sensibility about sexual violence at all (and yet the show managed to not improve on it!), but there’s a nuance here that gets lost because we don’t have a great vocabulary for it. Daenerys suffers rape because she’s been put in a situation where she’s not in control of her sexual consent unless…

They think making teenage girls cry is funny.

“that is objectively very funny, but it still made them cry.”

Yeah, GRRM’s ideas of where exactly the line is when it comes to rape is not the best.

Considering the book version of events is a 13 girl who has just been sold into a marriage “consenting” to have sex with a 30 year old man who doesn’t speak her language, not sure if I trust Martin’s call on this one.

So they added a rape where there was not one because they thought it was exciting, had a rape between Jaime and Cersei that “became consensual”--and then tried to write a series where the south won...why on earth could anybody find these showrunners problematic?

Eh, Daenerys doesn’t really have much of an option to consent to her wedding or not, and their early relationship does involve a significant amount of rape.

Oof, a desperation “LOL”.

The irony of genre fans calling anyone else "unwashed".

Are you really doubling down on this? Are you sure this is the route you want to go? Okay.

Because it’s not based on the throwaway line. Sorry, wasn’t sure if you saw the movie and were just trying to do a comedic bit.

Your presence in this thread consists of two unlikeable, paper-thin criticisms that will be immediately dismissed and forgotten after the reader has wasted precious moments of their lives reading them.

We live in a world where people will binge a 10 episode season in a weekend... but then complain when a movie is more than 2 hours long.

I concluded back when I first watched Jackson’s King Kong that he’s just too in love with his source material. Every scene that could have taken forty seconds he stretched into 10 minutes. You could imagine him hunched over the screen in the editing room mumbling to himself ‘This is marvelous, this is marvelous’. No,…

You...you know there are only three lord of the rings movies, right?

????

“He didn’t hate the movie or anything, he just didn’t give a damn about anything that happened afterward and feels zero need to see another one.”

Weird that he didn’t fall in love with a franchise after watching a movie that only exists because it fills in the backstory of another movie. The entire point of a prequel…

You think those movies are long, you should try reading any book