GoT is actually disgusting, isn't it?

[Miljah]

In what way can it be described as 'entertainment'?

I seriously, don't understand why people happily sit down to watch the carnage, the immolation, the screaming children.

What is wrong with people?

People are defensive as the OP basically saying disgusting people if watch it and comparing to aggressive porn, which is not the case as no one is actually having sex and the nudity is agreed by the actors (when one had to walk naked in the streets she chose a body double, as was her choice)

I watch it, I enjoy it in the books all the characters are much younger, should we ban books?

I actually stopped watching soaps years ago as I feel like they trivialise real life events, which I find more annoying.

I have little worry about being attacked by a zombie king or being burnt by a dragon but when a murder happens on a soap, it’s normally got away with or forgotten about a short time later. Saying that I don’t judge anyone for watching soaps it’s each to their own.

Although saying that the way Jon Snow gave up his dear Ghost, Without a heart felt pat on the head calling him the good boy, was the most disgusting act of the show 😉

Surely the point isn't whether or not a tv show contains certain subject matter eg sexual violence, but how it is done? Objecting to gratuitous violence doesn't mean you are against violence in entertainment - it's in the word 'gratuitous'. I think as a viewer of tv and film you can sense when a shocking event like a rape has been put in for a good reason and isn't glamourised in any way ie is treated seriously and necessary for the story, and when it has been put in for titillation and shock value. Somehow I don't think GoT would be so popular if it featured multiple rapes of men, which does happen in war. I enjoy aspects of GoT but am tired of having to look past the sexism and misogyny to enjoy it.

By season 8 GOTs strongest characters by far are its women.

Sansas rape was absolutely integral to her character development and her subsequent bond with Theon. She became what she is now because of the way she was brutalized.

And don't forget Sansa had her rapist eaten alive by dogs

I enjoy aspects of GoT but am tired of having to look past the sexism and misogyny to enjoy it.

Again, this seems like a terribly limited and superficial response to a series that’s given us so many complex, rounded, strong, powerful and radically different women.

Arya, Sansa, Cersei, Dany, Queen of Thorns, Margery, Yara, Lyanna, Caitlin, Brienne, Mel.

Save your ire for the many, many books/shows out there that present women as one dimensional saps.

I didn't like what they did to Sansa with the Bolton marriage storyline. It wasn't in the books (a different character was married off to Ramsay) and I don't understand why the writers made that choice. That scene in the first series where she nearly gets raped wasn't in the book either. It's one of the elements of GoT that I have always felt a bit icky about.

That choice was made surely because otherwise there wouldn't have been the battle of the bastards? They had to start bringing all the arcs together

Op, 'the disintegration of civilised societal norms.' Please do tell us when society was more civilised than now? I'd love to know.

Totally disagree that TV/films/books etc. are more nasty now due to our bring desensitised; certainly, for children the opposite is true.
In the late 70s, as child I watched an old Tarzan film where some native peoples were horrifically killed. It was in on a Saturday morning with children's programmes. I was very upset.

The fairy tales I read had people being eaten, killed, feet hacked off, etc. the same stories are still around but very sanitised.

Also, a few years ago we played a "Just William" (written many decades ago) audiobook in the car to entertain the DC on a journey. One story had various cats being put down at the vets in error and was supposed to be funny. So awful!

Straw Dogs was made in 1971. Clockwork Orange was too funnily enough.

Jodie Foster was gang-raped in The Accused, which came out in 1988.

The list could go on.

It takes me longer than a few frames of fake sex to have a wank. If you're managing to wank to GoT, I'm quite impressed!

Captainbrickbeardbut the tv put in sexual violence where there was none. Why?

Which ones?

The books and show arent exactly the same stories. I imagine there are many differences, including some violent scenes. Wonder why its only been reported about the differences in sexual violence.

If you know which parts, it may be actually explain why they did put it in.

I have never seen any sexual violence in GoT that felt it was there to just be there. It's usually horrifying and an important part of the events.

Think I’m the only person in the world who’s never seen it

'tiny people tend to get a bit defensive when somebody essentially calls them stupid or disgusting.

Both me and DH love GoT and are educated to PhD level so there goes your 'low intelligence' theory.

Don't watch it, tomtom it will drag you into a pit of utter depravity!

Well to be fair, I was called stupid first. For thinking GoT was porny. I mean I’ve watched it with my own eyes and it definitely is so I feel that was a bit uncalled for.

I tried to watch it but couldn't.

I'm no prude but the physical and sexual violence was too much for me and I just don't regard it as entertainment but, hey, each to their own.

Lots of sweeping statements by people who haven't watched all 8 seasons.

I have a PhD too. Jus sayin’

www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6085726/we-asked-a-researcher-what-she-thinks-of-game-of-thrones/

Well as you can do a PhD on GoT now (or basically anything you can think up) your stealth boasts don’t prove intelligence. Just sayin’. I’m joking of course, I’m sure your PhDs are in very worthwhile areas of research

It hasn’t been sexual for many seasons now (as many other posters have tried to point out.) If you admit you’ve only watched season 1 then yes there were lots of tits, but it hasn’t been like that for a long time.

People are insinuating that you have to have a low IQ to watch it, that it’s like porn, that we’re disgusting and love watching children burn to death. They’re then saying posters are getting wound up and aggressive, when the only rude people I’ve seen are the ones that are insulting most of the population because of their Tv choice. And it is just that..tv. I work in healthcare. I watch the nasty scenes with a lump in my throat behind a cushion, I’m not wanking off to people being burned alive. It’s good tv and that’s all it is.

As an aside, I don’t watch soaps. But when I was at my mothers I saw David platt being raped on coronation street and found it hard to watch. Is my mother evil for watching this show every night...

Well mine isn’t frankly, but it is relevant as it’s 18th century literature.

I think the opening post set the tone for stupidity and the OP’s inability to defend her rather stupid position has borne that out.

It’s not ‘basically porn’ but the sexposition stuff in the early seasons is there purely to titillate. There is definitely gratuitous nudity and sex but there was a discernible shift away from all of that in the middle seasons. The sex stuff never dominated a whole show either; there was always a lot more going on than just that.

Think I’m the only person in the world who’s never seen it

Nah, you're part of popular subculture, frequently to be seen on Twitter saying 'am I the only person never to have seen Game of Thrones?'