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I mean, I know ASoIaF has from pretty skeevy moments (all the more so since going The Lies of Loch Lamora, which is like ASoIaF without the misogyny, ps, read the Lies of Loch Lamora, that book rocks) but the HBO series brings that to a whooole new level of 'I am seriously watching this shit?!'
Now, let us ignore the Dany Destruction chapters, since the HBO writers appeared to have read a completely different story about a hapless princess. But I think the moment everything that crystallised the realisation that I was watching a program scripted by people whose ideas were 1890's conservative was when the only black character came onscreen and immediately announced his determination to rape the (white) queen.
Then I became drinking our traditional mead like it was going out of season because no way am I going to watch HBO rape my favourite fantasy series eight ways from sunday sober.
Now, let us ignore the Dany Destruction chapters, since the HBO writers appeared to have read a completely different story about a hapless princess. But I think the moment everything that crystallised the realisation that I was watching a program scripted by people whose ideas were 1890's conservative was when the only black character came onscreen and immediately announced his determination to rape the (white) queen.
Then I became drinking our traditional mead like it was going out of season because no way am I going to watch HBO rape my favourite fantasy series eight ways from sunday sober.