Post by katie on Apr 27, 2015 22:20:53 GMT
Can we also talk about Tyrion for a second here?
Last night's ep covered Tyrion's little trip to Selhorys where he eventually runs into/is kidnapped by Jorah. In the book, I think we all remember what goes down in that brothel -- namely that Tyrion fucks a whore who is CLEARLY disgusted by him, vomits, then fucks her again because shut up I'm paying for your cunt so just deal with it.
When run through the D&D filter, however, what actually happens on the show? The whore is utterly charmed by Tyrion (especially after he compliments her on her intelligence), and then when she offers to take him upstairs, he stops and says that he just can't do it. "No one is more surprised than me," he adds with a sheepish grin.
Oh. My. God. I laughed. I actually laughed out loud. Can D&D's chronic whitewashing of Tyrion get any more pathetic than this??? In a show that glorifies rape, and in an episode that is actually setting up a major female character for a spate of NON-CANON sexual abuse, they deliberately OMIT a canonical rape by a character they are determined to hero-ize by any fucking means possible. Sick. Really, really sick.
Last night's ep covered Tyrion's little trip to Selhorys where he eventually runs into/is kidnapped by Jorah. In the book, I think we all remember what goes down in that brothel -- namely that Tyrion fucks a whore who is CLEARLY disgusted by him, vomits, then fucks her again because shut up I'm paying for your cunt so just deal with it.
When run through the D&D filter, however, what actually happens on the show? The whore is utterly charmed by Tyrion (especially after he compliments her on her intelligence), and then when she offers to take him upstairs, he stops and says that he just can't do it. "No one is more surprised than me," he adds with a sheepish grin.
Oh. My. God. I laughed. I actually laughed out loud. Can D&D's chronic whitewashing of Tyrion get any more pathetic than this??? In a show that glorifies rape, and in an episode that is actually setting up a major female character for a spate of NON-CANON sexual abuse, they deliberately OMIT a canonical rape by a character they are determined to hero-ize by any fucking means possible. Sick. Really, really sick.
