Yeah, the sex scene between the leader of a murderous horde and the 13 year old child bride is totally consensual in the books.

Are you seriously saying that the scene in which Dany is raped is trying to glorify it?

So you'd rather skip over the Dany scene which realistically portrays the plight of a child bride? Or would you have preferred it stayed the way it was in the book, where a murderer with very little empathy somehow decides he's only going to do something to this 13 year old girl if she's OK with it?

Great points all around. Depiction is not endorsement.

Great response.

That is exactly what happened in the book.

As I understand it, people are mostly upset because of the change from the book.

If that's how you feel I still don't understand how you can defend the book passage too.

If that's what the director said, I guess I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, because I could see where the direction of the scene (it seems like it got cut short) just kind of messed up the tone.

Why is it automatically better for it to have none?

Hi, do you watch this show?

Yep!

Yeah, it's a problem that suddenly just because Jaime has been going through his redemption arc that people think he's going to be super enlightened about sexual violence.

"No,” she said weakly when his lips moved down her neck, “not here. The septons…”

I was offended by the end of the article implying that this rape change is trying to attract male viewers in the same way that the female nudity is.

Actually your comment nails why it bothers me so much that people are crying foul about the change from the book.

Well we've already been spending time with an attempted child murderer and someone who murdered his innocent cousin, so…

I get what you're saying, but I also get people making this argument.

Read that fucking passage again. If someone described a sexual encounter to you that way, would you really feel like it wasn't rape?

It's possible they will do something interesting with it, actually.