Adding rape into the story doesn’t count if it was done early in the series? Please, explain that logic to me.

Oh, was Sansa raped in the books? Strange, I don’t recall that. Maybe I missed it, I’ve only read the books five or six times.

Excuse you, this is actually real. My cousin’s friend’s sister did the game of 72 after tripping on bath salts at a rainbow party following a round of the knockout game.

It’s far, far worse when you realize that Sansa is supposed to be fourteen.

When you go through the last five and a half seasons of this show, you’ll notice how often it is that when the show deviates from the books, it’s to fuck over female characters. Sometimes it’s small and symbolic, like removing the less flashy bravery of Jeyne Westerling, who married Robb even though she knew that…

so you are saying that Sansa needed to be raped in order for Theon’s character arc to be tied up? That’s really fucked up.

Except these aren’t real people. This is a scripted, choreographed show where the writers have consistently gone out of their way to add sexual violence against women, even using women getting raped as background noise. It is entirely possible to criticize writers for using rape as a cheap gimmick without it being an…

See, the thought never occurred to me because it seems clear to me that D&D only deviate from the books when it comes to adding rape and bastardizing female characters.

It’s really making the show’s decision to age Tommen up look bad. In the books it makes sense for him not to fight back because he’s eight years old and can’t even beat a scarecrow at tilting.

I thought the same thing! But logic in this show isn’t exactly easy to come by.

Exactly! These are not real people doing their real people thing. This is a show, with a team a writers who sat down at a table and went “you know what? It’s been too many years since we got to see a fourteen year old get raped. Let’s make sure we add that in.”

I knew that it would eventually happen, because I know D&D’s track record, but that doesn’t mean I’m okay with seeing/hearing a fourteen year old character getting raped. It doesn’t mean it was necessary to the plot and it sure as hell doesn’t mean I don’t get to call out the writers who decided this was an okay thing…

Yeah, I love the print but shift mini-dresses are no good on curvy girls. Maybe if it was a knee length a-line I could get behind it.

No way. It’s clearly going to be the sexist who refused to get a CT. Remember how he showed so little remorse? Dude is definitely going to get taken down about eight thousand pegs.

You know, I love this damn show but that ghost sex plot line was the worst. The absolute worst that I remember (because I have somehow scar-tissued my brain into forgetting the whole “double blind clinical trial” shit show)

The last time this show made me cry was when they killed of Mark but this episode had be sobbing. I am however an admitted cry-watcher.

She hasn’t killed Owen yet either (in fact, he has only once been in any real danger and he chose to go into the shooter filled hospital) which goes to show that only the absolute worst characters get to live on this show.

They keep killing off characters in this show and none of them are Owen Hunt and that pisses me off.

I thought the same thing! When I was watching it and he told the little girl that she was alive because her heart was still beating I actually said out loud “Oh my god! He died on impact!” Turned out I was wrong, but I still think it would have been better (in my version, they pan out on the scene of the accident with…

Oh it’s a total soap opera, there is no denying that. The only way to love this show is to embrace that fact and give in to the cheese.