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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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Well, that can be said for anything, no? Any TV show is not real and nobody will be hurt. All TV is, is escapism.
The problem is that some people have a hard time differentiating between real and fantasy and that these same bad, terrible things also happen in real life.
FTR, I love GoT and don't care about the rape scenes. I didn't like 50 Shades because I thought it was poorly written and executed and not nearly as sexy as what I was led to believe.