The Glade 4.0

Yeah, I'm not sure. In the article I referenced, he calls it both rape and forced sex, with no allusion to "Well, it's rape, but then it becomes consensual." Also, that's not really how rape works. It would've been extremely easy for him to have shot that as a consensual scene, with her resisting, and then consenting BEFORE sex. That's not how he shot it at all.

Personally, like Coro said, it's not something that you should be shocked by in Game of Thrones. I'm just wondering why they would make such an extreme character deviation from the books, especially when Jamie was becoming such a fan favorite character. I guess we'll have to see where they go from here. Apparently, this whole season was done before this aired, so there is no way for them to do any sort of change based on fan reaction (probably a good thing).



Well, what you're missing there is the journey that he's taken. He started off as a complete scoundrel, but after his time with Brienne and even sacrificing his hand to prevent the rape of a woman, it seemed his character had softened quite a bit. It really undoes a lot of the change his character had experienced. I think people are most surprised because (like me), it seems very out of character for him (at this point).

Liberals and activists just need something to get mad about, man. This is A Song of Ice and Fire we're talking about, someone gets raped in every chapter of the book.

At least two women were forcibly raped on camera in the last episode and I haven't seen one **** peep about it.

They weren't powerful, independent womyn, so their rape wasn't a chilling message by the Patriarchy to sit down and be silent.

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Spoilered for language, funny image.

Pfft, child's play.

Spoilery prediction in image for those who haven't read ASOS.


Guess what's gonna happen?

Cool alternate ending to last weeks episode.

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made me chuckle ;-p

Goodbye to Ser Jorah Mormont, Lord Protector of the Friendzone, Knight of the Hover Hand, Defender of the "dawg, you just hit that?" Death Stare, First of his name to get Cockblocked by a Lizard and King of the Straight Guys Who Go Shopping With Girls.

Also, can I just say, "GODDAMNNNNN!"

Me reading reactions today:

Yeah the reactions were great. I think I've seen too many horror movies, it didn't bother me much, but I think GoT has a lot of crossover viewers who would NEVER watch a horror film. So they're permanently scarred. George RR martin, squishing beetles.

Also, loving the Arya laughing .gif, though it's lacking a bit for the lack of audio.

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