To find Game of Thrones unwatchable?

[Flumpsnlumpsnstuff]

I just can't bear it, DH loves it and thinks it's bizarre I don't. I hate the violence the sickening violence and debasement oh dear I've gone Victorian
I try and go out the room or read MN but he keeps saying "oh you missed such and such do such and such".
Maybe I should ltb
I think the dragons and wolves are pretty though.

[2nds]

Bibliomania if Theon being turned into Wreak is braking you stick with it that's all I'm going to say.

[limitedperiodonly]

What programmes do you find watchable OP?

[bibliomania]

Thanks 2nds!

[Gingermum]

The sex is explicit but it's not porn. People are too quick to throw that word around. Porn is rutting - it's wank material. Nearly all of the sex in GoT is face to face, apart from Ramsay's rape of Sansa.

Secondly, all the violence is in context - it's not the kind of horrendous graphic bloodletting you see in mainstream US horror films where the camera lingers oh so lovingly on the deaths of young women. Someone mentioned Saw. I would add Hostel and Wolf Creek to that list. Just nasty and stomach churning.

The worst bit of violence for me was the burning of poor Shireen but again, horrible though it was, her father pays for it dearly. He loses the battle, his men desert him and he dies alone. And Melisandre is banished, so anyone who took part in her death is punished severely. Again, in many mainstream Hollywood films, violence and xenophobia go hand in hand. In the Taken trilogy, Liam Neeson murders his way across Europe but that's ok because all the 'villains' are nameless foreigners.

[NeedACleverNN]

I dunno, I found myself...aroused..a couple of times

Especially the scene between the two women in littlefingers brothel. 100% consensual sex (fake I know) no rape and I felt myself go slightly warm..

[RepentAtLeisure]

the TV series is far too graphic for me. It's a bit like a cheap porn version of the books



The books are way worse than the show! I never understand why the novel readers criticize the show for sensationalizing the material. If they were faithful to the books, instead of a Sansa attempted rape scene we'd have seen Lollys getting raped by hundreds of men. Ramsay would have been seen raping the women he tracked and killed. Theon would have been involved in that other rape scene instead of watching.

The books are SO MUCH WORSE!

[RepentAtLeisure]

Nearly all of the sex in GoT is face to face, apart from Ramsay's rape of Sansa.

And then the camera cuts away, so no sickos can get off on seeing it. Jezebel complained at the time that it was misogynistic for the camera to cut to Theon/Reek instead of staying on Sansa, I found that baffling.

[proseccowithastraw]

Ah......

I am another who really wants to watch it, but after reading this thread, it's sounding like I've been cautious for a reason. Rape is something I just can't watch and it sounds unavoidable in GOT. I'm not too bothered by blood and gore, but rape just upsets me too much. Even just being implied gets to me, so this probably isn't for me is it?! Shame though. Really wish I could get past it.

Is this kind of violence in most episodes? Cos that's what it sounds like

[BertrandRussell]

Such a shame that "adult themed" means explicit sex and hideous bloody violence.

[NeedACleverNN]

What else would adult theme be?

[LaurieMarlow]

It's no more explicit sex and violence than that which has punctuated human history. And because it's fundamentally about the struggle for power, unsurprising that these two vehicles for achieving power feature heavily.

If you don't like it, don't watch it, but I don't get the angst given it's got an 18 rating.

[UmbongoUnchained]

It's fab I love it. But I love violence fantasy and gore. Don't know why people get so offended over a pair of tits.

[RepentAtLeisure]

I don't find the violence very graphic. Maybe I'm just used to it. But to me the flying heads are so obviously fake (duh!) and the blood looks like strawberry syrup, so I can't take it seriously.

Even watching the Mountain pull someone's head and spinal cord from their body didn't make me flinch, but I cannot watch horror films so if I'm jaded it's a very specific Game-of-Thrones-only kind of jaded!

[AdultingIsNotWhatIExpected]

Especially the scene between the two women in littlefingers brothel. 100% consensual sex (fake I know) no rape and I felt myself go slightly warm..

That scene involved at least one woman who Littlefinger threatened to kill if she didn't keep smiling and fucking (when she was upset about the infacide).. and then he sold her to Joefry so he could get off on killing her anyway

I don't think that counts as consent… just because she was smiling… remember the whole "sad is bad for my business" threats?

[NeedACleverNN]

There was that but at the time she willing went to him. The Joffrey part hadn't happened yet but it was awful what did

[MargaretCavendish]

Porn is rutting - it's wank material. Nearly all of the sex in GoT is face to face, apart from Ramsay's rape of Sansa.

I'm not quite sure of the distinction that's being drawn here. Is sex from behind inherently 'porn'?

[Theydontknowweknowtheyknow]

I don't know about the violent porn because I didn't even get that far. First scene, first episode showed heads on a stick on the roadside and I was off

[JessicaRabbit3]

Yabu I'm female. I've not enjoyed a series like this since Spartacus. I love the raw brutality of it all ,that your favourite character could die, that the good don't always come out on top. The twists and turns of each season fantastic series. Roll on series 7 🐉🛡🗡👑❄️🔥

[JoffreyBaratheon]

The pie was so OTT it made me laugh (Shakespeare did the same thing, although he's generally boring).

If they did stuff like that in Downton Abbey I might have watched it.

No. That's a lie. I still wouldn't have watched it.

[LaurieMarlow]

For me, the dragons are the least good thing about it actually.

[KnackeredDumpling]

Someone said its predictable - i don't think it's predictable. One of the things I love about GoT is that quite major characters sometimes die (or are murdered) in the middle of an episode - I never see that coming.

I love it. i thought the last two episodes of series 6 were fab. Up until that point I thought the series hadn't been quite so great as it had had to slightly slow the pace to cover the many different storylines going on.

Has anyone else seen the Comic Relief Coldplay musical version? That made me smile.

[NeedACleverNN]

Some parts are predictable but most are not. Some really make you go woah!

And comic relief version? No? Do you have a link for it?

[AdultingIsNotWhatIExpected]

I don't think Margaery was predictable at all… she had a plan.. and then..