difficult content is fine as long as it's set up and justified, but when they're actually adding rapes to the TV show that never happened in the source material, it's worth doing the analysis. for example, none of Dany's, Cersei's or Sansa's TV rapes were in the books. I think the Dany one was justifiable as part of her arc to power, but the other two were clunky as hell in execution.
it's not as big a problem as the accelerating compression of the show's plot and themes into standard Lord of the Rings fare, but it's fair game to challenge from a writing perspective.
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