But there's tons of rape in the books, tons of it. Far worse stuff than in the show. So what does that say about society? I don't understand that.
I disagree they did it for viewership, it's one of the most popular shows already, they don't need to add a rape scene for viewership and the audience certainly wasn't expecting Sansa to be raped, they didn't do it because that was expected. I think there have been two rape scenes in the show? Sansa, Jamie and his sister was a bit rapey but possibly not intended, what else?
Regardless, rape is apart of life, it's apart of our history, it's apart of this fantasy world in the books.
Unnecessary? Why? Wouldn't most of the murders be unnecessary then under the same kind of logic? I just don't understand the backlash here regarding rape but everything else is ok. Let's cut Theon's dick off and eat a sausage in front of him! Was that necessary? No, but it was awesome.
Rape's definitely a part of life, and definitely existed in medieval times. It was all over the book. I don't have any problem with rape scenes in general. But when you rape one of the main characters when it doesn't happen in the book, I think it's pretty clear you're just doing it for shock value. 'We killed Ned Stark. We killed Joffrey. We killed Robb and Catlyn. What can we do this season? Let's rape Sansa.'
I'm not morally against rape scenes. I just think it was a cheap shock move on HBO's part.
I agree that the TV show was prematurely made when the entire thing hasn't been written yet. That's the real problem here. It's his story so he can add as much as he wants right? I mean even comics go on and on and on.
Is the Sanderson shit complete and is it going to be made into a TV show? I'd like to know before I go getting invested in a book series again.
Only two books have been released so far, but compared to GRRM, the guy is a machine. He's done like 28 books in the past 10 years. He writes two or three at a time. The third book in the series should be out in fall of 2016 and he should have every other one out within 1.5-2 years later.
I've been trying to finish the last book in the Mistborn series but it drags on so much I keep putting it down for months at a time. It's seriously the worst character progression ever, makes you appreciate A Feast for Crows a lot more. I was going to start the Raven's Shadow series next but I'll flip a coin between that and Stormlight if you say so.
Mistborn was his first real try at epic fantasy and not his best work. Stormlight is hands down the best he's done, and I've heard a few people complain about Mistborn but love Stormlight.
The best fantasy series I've read have probably been Stormlight, Kingkiller Chronicles, and the Farseer Trilogies. All for different reasons. GoT is venturing into Wheel of Time territory, and lost control of its own story.
Joe Abercrombie is one of the best. Have you read any of the Shattered Sea books?
In the past couple years I've probably read GOT, First Law, Farseer, Acts of Caine, Wheel of Time, Kingkiller, Stormlight, Mistborn, Demon Cycle, Malazan, Eli Monpress, Earthsea, the Magicians, Gentlemen Bastards, Chronicles of Amber, Dark Tower, His Dark Materials, Lightbringer, Night Angel, Fionavar Tapestry, and god knows what else. Stormlight was my favorite, period.
