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Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan
What's with the dip on ratings on S5:E6? I just read the synopsis (because I forgot about it) and is all the fuss over Sansa being raped by Ramsey? Seemed like a pretty powerful moment and a character defining event for Sansa and Theon. In retrospect it was a good writing decision, and it was true to the nature of the show being unforgiving to the characters. Sure, rape can be pretty upsetting, but how does it compare to all the other horrid things done in this show in the name of storytelling? Was it all that much worse than what Joffrey did to people off camera?
I don't get it honestly. The writing in general was a little worse than many other episodes in the series, but not glaringly so. It just seems like it's a taboo subject to display on screen (which they didn't even really do, but alluded to it more than anything). Even though we had consensual incest displayed several times, and I find that far more upsetting than something that commonly happened during times of war between soldiers and common folk.
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So you are saying that the bizarre attraction to a relative (surely something unrelatable to most), potential for a poor genetic outcome, is more upsetting than life-ruining, non-consensual violent forced violation of one person by another?
I’m not a fan of either incest or rape, just curious about the scale for what is upsetting.