(May 22, 2015 at 10:43 am)Iroscato Wrote: The most disturbing aspect of the show has to be for me Ramsay's slow breaking down of Theon into Reek. There's something about a human being being gradually ground down and transformed into something else that I find utterly disturbing. Did it stop me watching? Nope, if anything it gives a whole new layer of morbid fascination to the show. Part of the reason I enjoy GoT is its totally unflinching portrayal of the world which it exists in - most of the people are bastards (a few quite literally) and really bad, really fucked up shit happens. If people can't handle it, fair enough.
I know, right?
But seriously, I have to agree with you here, I don't understand why people would be less squeamish about the Ramsay/Theon plotline than 2 very brief rape scenes. Seriously, some of that last season really did verge on torture porn.
Rape is a very sad reality, as is murder, torture, etc. And like murder, torture, etc, it was even more common (and more accepted) in the middle ages. GoT's really is just saying it like it is....or was. We can't judge a show that is portraying the morals of a fictional people based on cultures 500 to 1000 years ago on the morals of today. That is, really, the whole freaking POINT of GoT's. To be turned away by a specific aspect but accept all the other stuff is asinine. Well, imo.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
