I'm upset for all the same reasons. And angry at the showrunners for not knowing WTF they are doing.
I definitely perceive Jaime in a negative light now. I don't care how much Cersei sucks - that was an awful scene and uncomfortable and scary to watch. Realizing that they made other scenes non-consensual when the scene in the book was consensual is even more upsetting - why are they doing this?
People who don't get that it was clearly rape may not be bad people - it could be that they just don't want it to be rape, as it wasn't in the books, and rape would invalidate Jaime's character change, and they just can't believe it. You know? I had to have a moment of cognitive dissonance where I kept thinking - this isn't happening, this isn't happening....I know I was in denial when Alli said "that was f'ed up" and I said "Oh, lots of people have sex after funerals." My brain just couldn't accept what had happened on the screen and I retreated to what had happened in the books.
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Date: 2014-04-23 02:08 pm (UTC)And angry at the showrunners for not knowing WTF they are doing.
I definitely perceive Jaime in a negative light now. I don't care how much Cersei sucks - that was an awful scene and uncomfortable and scary to watch. Realizing that they made other scenes non-consensual when the scene in the book was consensual is even more upsetting - why are they doing this?
People who don't get that it was clearly rape may not be bad people - it could be that they just don't want it to be rape, as it wasn't in the books, and rape would invalidate Jaime's character change, and they just can't believe it. You know? I had to have a moment of cognitive dissonance where I kept thinking - this isn't happening, this isn't happening....I know I was in denial when Alli said "that was f'ed up" and I said "Oh, lots of people have sex after funerals." My brain just couldn't accept what had happened on the screen and I retreated to what had happened in the books.