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Game of Thrones Rape Scene -
April 22nd 2014, 10:25 PM
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CONTAINS SPOILERS.
http://www.wired.com/2014/04/game-of-thrones-rape/
So the other night a very controversial (even for GoT) scene was shown where Jaime rapes Cersei. In the books this doesn't happen and sex between them is consensual so I was more than a bit shocked when this happened.
It's also quite worrying that the directors say this about the scene :
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the interaction “becomes consensual by the end, because anything for [Jaime and Cersei] ultimately results in a turn-on, especially a power struggle.”
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Anyone who watched that scene can see that it DID NOT end up being consensual and Cersei was saying no all the way to the end of the scene when the cameras cut to a new scene.
A lot of people are shocked about this, myself included, and even Martin has said that the original scene was meant to be disturbing (I mean they are having sex in the tomb of their dead son) but that the actual TV show scene was disturbing for all the wrong reasons.
Discuss.
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