Well Game of Thrones is kind of sexist. Or at least... sexploitative.
How is it either? It still has far more violence than sex, and even if it didn't, we live in a culture that glorifies violence and sees it as more acceptable than sex. GoT is bucking the trend, and that's pretty awesome in my book.
What trend is it bucking?
GoT may be the most violent show I've ever seen, the end of The Mountain and the Viper haunted my goddamn thoughts for like a week after it aired
And there's a bunch of naked women everywhere, just like a bunch of other HBO shows, and hardly any male nudity. Most of the female nudity is also incredibly pointless
Like it is very much continuing the trend of glorifying violence and making sex acceptable, as long as "sex" is "just a bunch of nude women everywhere"
I like the show a whole bunch but these are issues that it absolutely has
Also I don't see how someone not enjoying The Avengers and Game of Thrones makes them an unpleasant person
No, but being completely unable to even tolerate something that's essentially the person you're married to's childhood dream coming true kinda does
It's just something that's kinda been built up over years of listen to some of Kevin Smith's various shows and needs context for
She doesn't enjoy anything he enjoys and is super rude about it when she doesn't like it
My girlfriend completely hates video games and reads several books a month. I read maybe one book every two months and play way too many games. It works out great, I actually wouldn't want to date a girl as obsessed with video games as I am as this way I'm actually encouraged to play less of them and read more.
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
I'm not looking to get into a debate about it. And I like Thrones, I'm not attacking it. But there are a lot of gratuitous tits and rapey business. And the argument of "it's historically accurate to the medieval period" is fine if that's what you feel but it's a show with dragons and warlocks and ice zombies so leaning on the "realism" defense is being pretty selective.
It's kind of like Saving Private Ryan, where the beach landing is a cinematic tour de force but also horrific and terrifying which is what it should be.
I was going to use Uber in this example, because it is my favourite example of such media, but then I remembered that nobody reads Uber.
Well Game of Thrones is kind of sexist. Or at least... sexploitative.
How is it either? It still has far more violence than sex, and even if it didn't, we live in a culture that glorifies violence and sees it as more acceptable than sex. GoT is bucking the trend, and that's pretty awesome in my book.
What trend is it bucking?
GoT may be the most violent show I've ever seen, the end of The Mountain and the Viper haunted my goddamn thoughts for like a week after it aired
And there's a bunch of naked women everywhere, just like a bunch of other HBO shows, and hardly any male nudity. Most of the female nudity is also incredibly pointless
Like it is very much continuing the trend of glorifying violence and making sex acceptable, as long as "sex" is "just a bunch of nude women everywhere"
I like the show a whole bunch but these are issues that it absolutely has
The violence is horrifying, as violence should be, not glorified as it is in blockbusters and too many other films to count. The sex and nudity is abundant and seen as normal within the show's context, which is not a typical thing at all. Films are terrified of showing sex, it's only recently that TV has started to feature a lot of it.
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AtomicTofuShe's a straight-up supervillain, yoRegistered Userregular
I think I personally have more an issue with the sexual violence than anything else
I also have an issue with the view that GoT is somehow "true" to any specific historical background, I accept it as a deconstruction of otherwise mostly idealized fantasy worlds though
Well Game of Thrones is kind of sexist. Or at least... sexploitative.
How is it either? It still has far more violence than sex, and even if it didn't, we live in a culture that glorifies violence and sees it as more acceptable than sex. GoT is bucking the trend, and that's pretty awesome in my book.
What trend is it bucking?
GoT may be the most violent show I've ever seen, the end of The Mountain and the Viper haunted my goddamn thoughts for like a week after it aired
And there's a bunch of naked women everywhere, just like a bunch of other HBO shows, and hardly any male nudity. Most of the female nudity is also incredibly pointless
Like it is very much continuing the trend of glorifying violence and making sex acceptable, as long as "sex" is "just a bunch of nude women everywhere"
I like the show a whole bunch but these are issues that it absolutely has
The violence is horrifying, as violence should be, not glorified as it is in blockbusters and too many other films to count. The sex and nudity is abundant and seen as normal within the show's context, which is not a typical thing at all. Films are terrified of showing sex, it's only recently that TV has started to feature a lot of it.
What about when that dude throws a knife right into a horse's fucking face and decapitates the rider and takes a huge piss and everyone is stoked, I don't think that is supposed to be like the horrors of war
Well Game of Thrones is kind of sexist. Or at least... sexploitative.
How is it either? It still has far more violence than sex, and even if it didn't, we live in a culture that glorifies violence and sees it as more acceptable than sex. GoT is bucking the trend, and that's pretty awesome in my book.
What trend is it bucking?
GoT may be the most violent show I've ever seen, the end of The Mountain and the Viper haunted my goddamn thoughts for like a week after it aired
And there's a bunch of naked women everywhere, just like a bunch of other HBO shows, and hardly any male nudity. Most of the female nudity is also incredibly pointless
Like it is very much continuing the trend of glorifying violence and making sex acceptable, as long as "sex" is "just a bunch of nude women everywhere"
I like the show a whole bunch but these are issues that it absolutely has
The violence is horrifying, as violence should be, not glorified as it is in blockbusters and too many other films to count. The sex and nudity is abundant and seen as normal within the show's context, which is not a typical thing at all. Films are terrified of showing sex, it's only recently that TV has started to feature a lot of it.
What about when that dude throws a knife right into a horse's fucking face and decapitates the rider and takes a huge piss and everyone is stoked, I don't think that is supposed to be like the horrors of war
Well Game of Thrones is kind of sexist. Or at least... sexploitative.
How is it either? It still has far more violence than sex, and even if it didn't, we live in a culture that glorifies violence and sees it as more acceptable than sex. GoT is bucking the trend, and that's pretty awesome in my book.
What trend is it bucking?
GoT may be the most violent show I've ever seen, the end of The Mountain and the Viper haunted my goddamn thoughts for like a week after it aired
And there's a bunch of naked women everywhere, just like a bunch of other HBO shows, and hardly any male nudity. Most of the female nudity is also incredibly pointless
Like it is very much continuing the trend of glorifying violence and making sex acceptable, as long as "sex" is "just a bunch of nude women everywhere"
I like the show a whole bunch but these are issues that it absolutely has
The violence is horrifying, as violence should be, not glorified as it is in blockbusters and too many other films to count. The sex and nudity is abundant and seen as normal within the show's context, which is not a typical thing at all. Films are terrified of showing sex, it's only recently that TV has started to feature a lot of it.
What about when that dude throws a knife right into a horse's fucking face and decapitates the rider and takes a huge piss and everyone is stoked, I don't think that is supposed to be like the horrors of war
It was shot with the same immediacy as every violent scene in the show.
My favorite line from the GoT book, "Sansa did not like being interrupted, but she had to admit, lemon cakes sounded more interesting than most of what had gone on in the throne room."
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Well Game of Thrones is kind of sexist. Or at least... sexploitative.
How is it either? It still has far more violence than sex, and even if it didn't, we live in a culture that glorifies violence and sees it as more acceptable than sex. GoT is bucking the trend, and that's pretty awesome in my book.
What trend is it bucking?
GoT may be the most violent show I've ever seen, the end of The Mountain and the Viper haunted my goddamn thoughts for like a week after it aired
And there's a bunch of naked women everywhere, just like a bunch of other HBO shows, and hardly any male nudity. Most of the female nudity is also incredibly pointless
Like it is very much continuing the trend of glorifying violence and making sex acceptable, as long as "sex" is "just a bunch of nude women everywhere"
I like the show a whole bunch but these are issues that it absolutely has
The violence is horrifying, as violence should be, not glorified as it is in blockbusters and too many other films to count. The sex and nudity is abundant and seen as normal within the show's context, which is not a typical thing at all. Films are terrified of showing sex, it's only recently that TV has started to feature a lot of it.
if the sex and violence is tangential to the plot and is not meant to titillate
naked women for no reason and completely graphic violence JUST BECAUSE are kinda a huge problem with anything hbo
Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
Ghost Ship was ultimately very mediocre. I found it amusing in places but probably not in the way that the makers intended.
It was kind of like Event Horizon but with sea ships instead of space ships, and not actually being scary, and with no Sam Neill or Lawrence Fishbourne and much more nu-metal.
Actually I did genuinely enjoy the nu-metal mass murder montage near the end.
Well Game of Thrones is kind of sexist. Or at least... sexploitative.
How is it either? It still has far more violence than sex, and even if it didn't, we live in a culture that glorifies violence and sees it as more acceptable than sex. GoT is bucking the trend, and that's pretty awesome in my book.
What trend is it bucking?
GoT may be the most violent show I've ever seen, the end of The Mountain and the Viper haunted my goddamn thoughts for like a week after it aired
And there's a bunch of naked women everywhere, just like a bunch of other HBO shows, and hardly any male nudity. Most of the female nudity is also incredibly pointless
Like it is very much continuing the trend of glorifying violence and making sex acceptable, as long as "sex" is "just a bunch of nude women everywhere"
I like the show a whole bunch but these are issues that it absolutely has
The violence is horrifying, as violence should be, not glorified as it is in blockbusters and too many other films to count. The sex and nudity is abundant and seen as normal within the show's context, which is not a typical thing at all. Films are terrified of showing sex, it's only recently that TV has started to feature a lot of it.
What about when that dude throws a knife right into a horse's fucking face and decapitates the rider and takes a huge piss and everyone is stoked, I don't think that is supposed to be like the horrors of war
Blake TDo you have enemies then?Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered Userregular
Game of thrones definitely at times has issues with short cutting to show people are evil by having them needlessly rape and torture women.
And at other times the violence is overly gratuitous.
And to be fair, I had the same problems with the first book which I never finished, but at least with the tv show you can check Facebook or something when something you don't particularly appreciate is happening. With the book (for me) it's kinda hard for me to do that, as I tend to zone out and re read paragraphs.
And as much as I am being negative right now. There are Good Strong Female characters (and the story is legitimately good also). It's just at times there is a lot of bullshit to slog through.
Sometimes I just wish they'd aim for a lower rating.
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What trend is it bucking?
GoT may be the most violent show I've ever seen, the end of The Mountain and the Viper haunted my goddamn thoughts for like a week after it aired
And there's a bunch of naked women everywhere, just like a bunch of other HBO shows, and hardly any male nudity. Most of the female nudity is also incredibly pointless
Like it is very much continuing the trend of glorifying violence and making sex acceptable, as long as "sex" is "just a bunch of nude women everywhere"
I like the show a whole bunch but these are issues that it absolutely has
My girlfriend completely hates video games and reads several books a month. I read maybe one book every two months and play way too many games. It works out great, I actually wouldn't want to date a girl as obsessed with video games as I am as this way I'm actually encouraged to play less of them and read more.
I was going to use Uber in this example, because it is my favourite example of such media, but then I remembered that nobody reads Uber.
The violence is horrifying, as violence should be, not glorified as it is in blockbusters and too many other films to count. The sex and nudity is abundant and seen as normal within the show's context, which is not a typical thing at all. Films are terrified of showing sex, it's only recently that TV has started to feature a lot of it.
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I also have an issue with the view that GoT is somehow "true" to any specific historical background, I accept it as a deconstruction of otherwise mostly idealized fantasy worlds though
Like they really HBOed it up
Catch up because holy shit it is getting even better every issue (loss of pacing in the Stephanie backstory issue aside)
What did you expect every other page to have "oh and by the way there are a few topless chicks with rockin' tits hanging around in the background."
What about when that dude throws a knife right into a horse's fucking face and decapitates the rider and takes a huge piss and everyone is stoked, I don't think that is supposed to be like the horrors of war
Well
Kinda, yeah, after seeing the show
Get back to me once you've read DwD.
"with capon grease dribbling down their chins"
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It was shot with the same immediacy as every violent scene in the show.
if the sex and violence is tangential to the plot and is not meant to titillate
naked women for no reason and completely graphic violence JUST BECAUSE are kinda a huge problem with anything hbo
Uh
Buh?
It was kind of like Event Horizon but with sea ships instead of space ships, and not actually being scary, and with no Sam Neill or Lawrence Fishbourne and much more nu-metal.
Actually I did genuinely enjoy the nu-metal mass murder montage near the end.
i just read the most amazing spoiler about the new Hercules movie and i can't stop laughing
That scene did in fact get me incredibly stoked.
I did the same thing, for probably the same reason!
It seems alright now, yeah
Movie talk: I tried to make my sister watch Glengarry Glen Ross last night, which was a hilariously bad idea.
I realized how badly I miscalculated when it took her fifteen minutes to ask what "leads" are
No. It's not safe, it's... very dangerous, be careful.
Why I fear the ocean.
I once had a dentist ask me "Is it safe?" before
I instantly liked him
It is pretty dang good! Just a fun little comedy with a great cast and a pretty solid sense of humor throughout
if only science had invented a way to post spoilers such that only people who were interested could read them
If only science could fix nested spoilers.
Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
Well, can your "science" explain why it rains?
Why I fear the ocean.
And at other times the violence is overly gratuitous.
And to be fair, I had the same problems with the first book which I never finished, but at least with the tv show you can check Facebook or something when something you don't particularly appreciate is happening. With the book (for me) it's kinda hard for me to do that, as I tend to zone out and re read paragraphs.
And as much as I am being negative right now. There are Good Strong Female characters (and the story is legitimately good also). It's just at times there is a lot of bullshit to slog through.
Sometimes I just wish they'd aim for a lower rating.
Satans..... hints.....
Blasphemy! burn the witch
Steam
The scientific consensus is that it rains 'cause you're really lame.
Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
...The math checks out.
Why I fear the ocean.