Re: The Official Game of Thrones [A Song of Ice and Fire] Thread
It's part of the time period and story. Just because you're uncomfortable with it in today's society doesn't mean they were.
Look at the Roman empire...
I think you misinterpreted my quote. I am not uncomfortable with it at all. Game of Thrones is a television show, and on a television show, particularly a drama, scenes should serve a purpose. Some of the sex scenes on the show absolutely do serve a purpose, and similarly it's reasonable to have scenes at a brothel where there are naked women around. That's true to the fictional period the show takes place during. The books have plenty of sex scenes, but most of them have a reason for existing, which is not true on the show.
Let's look at a few different scenes to demonstrate my point.
1. Jon sleeps with Ygritte. This scene has a purpose. Jon breaks his vows and learns what it means to love someone. This is an important character moment for him. Nothing wrong with it.
2. Pod gets taken to the whorehouse. While it provided a funny "Meereenese knot" joke, what purpose did this scene serve? In my mind, it just wasted about five minutes of time that could have been better spent on something that actually mattered. It was just generally a terrible scene.
3. Dany gets raped by Khal Drogo. Like the Jon and Ygritte scene above, this is an important character moment for Dany. It's her at her lowest, stripped down and at the whims of the barbarian she doesn't know and was forced to wed. Another fine scene, even if it's a little more rapey than its book counterpart.
4. Littlefinger reveals his master plan as two whores fuck each other. Like, seriously, this might be the most laughably bad scene in the show's four year run. It's just an awful scene with poor writing and Littlefinger might as well be twirling his damn mustache the entire fucking time.
Great television shows shouldn't have scenes like two and four above. They lower the quality of the show. Similarly, if your fans come up with the term "sexposition" to describe how you relate plot information to the viewer, you're probably doing something wrong.
