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Originally Posted by Ashasx
Escapism isn't the sense that I want to actually live and exist in this world. I like horror movies too but that doesn't mean I want somebody to drop me off at the Blair Witch forest. Similarly, shooting up random civilians in Grand Theft Auto doesn't mean I want to do it in real life.
It helps creates an atmosphere for the story to play itself out or to engage the audience further.
It's not real. Bad things, terrible things can happen in this make believe world and nobody will be hurt by it.
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A million times this. Escapism is not the same as a fantasy (the dream kind, not the genre of literature).
And not to point fingers at firefly because it's only tangently related but I'd like to go on record that all of the GoT "controversies" have been stupid and overblown.
Sexposition is a moronic term and it is sad that it ever caught on. It was used to describe a single scene (the one where LF delivers a monologue as the prostitutes pleasure each other) and never meant to describe nudity on the show in general. Furthermore, the show has, on numerous occasions, used the exact same type of comparison between a characters words and the action on screen. This one just happened to feature sex so a bunch of prudes got mad.
All of the complaints about the amount of nudity, violence, violence against women, Sansa's rape, Sansa's revenge etc have no merit and it sucks that the show had to deal with those kinds of idiotic controversies. To make it worse, the shows creators, actors, writers and GRRM himself have all had to make comments about how they regret those themes and the scenes that were offensive for some people.