Cry, cry, cry. That's all I hear from "Game of Thrones" detractors. Johnny Cash's estate should sue.
One minute, these characters are fictional so their plights and treatment shouldn't matter in the real world by extension of their fictionalization, the next minute the atrocities and abuse that they face on screen are all too real to continue watching and supporting the show. It's contradictory and highly hypocritical after demonstrating silent acquiescence for several seasons already, several seasons of which have already shown many other acts of violence and sexual abuse both similar and more extreme than anything that Sansa Stark endored in the fifth season's episode "Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken".
By the logic of the same people who've opportunistically become offended by "Game of Thrones" after four and a half seasons, "Agent Carter" should've been boycotted and pressured into being taken off the air after it's first episode which saw Peggy seduce and use poisioned lipstick to drug a man into unconsciousness in order to reach her own ends - something that if done by a male character to a female character, it would've been characterized by angry feminists as attempted "date rape" - but no, calling that out would've been too much like right. And too much like true equality, to boot.
People have the right to watch what they feel like watching and support or not support whatever they choose to. My only question is of the opportunistic timing of the outrage that so many have conjured up since last Sunday's episode of "Game of Thrones" as if ANYTHING featured in it was fresh to the show somehow.
Not everyone will agree with me all the time, and I don't expect them to, but I simply just don't understand the sudden anti-"Game of Thrones" rhetoric that I've seen so many spew online after enduring four and a half seasons of the series so far, which is far removed from introducing violent and abhorrent themes to it's narrative. If the show is too hardcore for you then maybe the "Scooby-Doo" and "Powerpuff Girls" reruns are right for you. They're right around the corner.
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