You might as well ask why people watch sports, or even play video games in the first place when they can just go fight in actual wars or get into real street fights.

There was PLENTY of content in the base game to justify a $60 price tag. Purchasing this new content is also not mandatory. It’s not like this is a free to play game or this content was already on the disc. This is new content.

I’ve read the books, yeah. And to be fair, this was the 6th episode, not really just a few episodes in. I’ve actually really liked the season up to this point too, and haven’t found it as boring as a lot of people have.

I agree that it’s something that’s not surprising and completely in character for Ramsay, but that still doesn’t mean it needed to happen, or that there weren’t alternatives. It was arguably the natural progression of her storyline with Joffrey too at a certain point, but it didn’t end up going there.

The show has a lot of brutality, sure, but it’s not “about” rape. The show has made rape expected at this point, and that’s the problem.

This is very true, and something I took for granted when I initially posted. I didn’t know that bit about Roz before I made the comment, or really consider she might be receiving active pressure to downplay the severity of the scene in the press.

There’s a middle ground. The actor that played Ramsay has had no trouble admitting on record that he didn’t want to do the scene.