05-20-2015, 10:19 AM
Jakensama Wrote:Well they kinda fucked up the Jamie/Cersei rapey scene last year and there was some outrage about it, and it's a touchy subject for some - so I think the outrage was fairly easily predictable, even if I don't share it.
Great example. The Jamie/Cersei sceene in the books and clearly what the show was trying to do (according to the producers, actors and writers) was have them have sex next to Joffrey's body. How it was edited, shot and acted made it come off like a rape. A simple add on like showing Cersai getting into it would have solved the problem.
What happens though is everyone does this stuff in a bubble and the final product often doesn't come out like they expected.
This Sansa thing is an exact duplication of that same problem. We have talked before in this thread about that fine line of abusing your main characters, their is a point where the audiance is turned off and it isn't entertainment anymore. The Sansa rape was poorly thought out.
1. Ramsay is going to rape whomever he was married to so that was unavoidable.
2. You chose to replace Poole with Sansa so the writers had to know where this was going. That tells me the writers have no clue what their audiance thinks of Sansa. The Sansa character for good or bad has been the punching bag for GOT for years. So you take the punching bag that had to deal with Joffrey and Lannisters for 4 seasons then put her in the position to be the Ramsay Bolton punching bag as well? Viewers will eventually say enough is enough.
3. Why end a show on a rape? They had hundreds of choices to allude to Sansa's abuse or they could have put it earlier in the show but they chose to use rape as cliff hanger. That was like buying up a bunch of commercial time to advertise that your food sucks. Somebody is taking calls from HBO exec's this week.