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What I didn't love is what HBO used to do with too many of its shows. Too much OTT sex scenes and nudity, and wayyy too much sexual assault.
It just seems natural to me. As for the amount of sexual assault, it’s war and power struggles — and we all know that rape is a standard part of war. I think including sexual assault contributes to not cleaning up and romanticizing war and power games. It’s also a world of arranged marriages to create power alliances. Women don’t have a lot of power in this world. And yet — there are tons of strong, kickass female characters in spite of the world they live in. That’s good enough for me.
I'll give one example - in the book, Dani and Khal's first encounter was consensual. He was patient, and waited for her to be ready, and they clicked sexually.
All of the above said, it’s very interesting that the show and novel wrote Dani and Khal differently. She was still sold to Khal by her brother in the novel, yes?
There was NO reason for this change. NONE.
In this case, I agree.
So glad HBO has largely dropped this kind of crap, at least in the shows I've seen.
For example, in the series Rome from the mid-2000s, did we really have to have peoples' boobs and wieners hang out all the time? Nope. stopped watching the middle of the first season because, c'mon. The edgy sexual fluff was already so passe. No thanks.
I guess I really don’t mind nudity in a TV show. Besides Rome and GOT, what other HBO series do you feel have too much sex and nudity? I’ve been watching a lot of HBO shows and haven’t noticed it.
The recent shows give women more agency in that regard, and we get strong women who chart their own course sexually. Recent example was True Detective S5.
I haven’t seen any True Detective yet. But I love Jodie Foster so I have S5 on my list. Is it okay to watch S5 without watching the previous seasons? It’s an anthology series, yes?
