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What character death made you not want to continue the series? (piefed.social)
submitted 5 months ago by [M] to c/television@piefed.social
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[–] 5 points 5 months ago (10 children)

There were a lot of questionably sadistic choices made by the producers in Game of Thrones, but when the >!orphans!< were strung up burned to death I said to my parter 'ok that's last warning. The show isn't good enough to endure this crap'.

Then the red wedding happened next season and it was full of sadism - unsuspecting soldiers gruesomely and gleefully murdered by their comrades, >!foetus stabbed in the womb!<.

And that was the last Game of Thrones episode I watched. I don't have any desire to revisit it.

A fantastic production in every other sense, ruined by extreme sadism at every corner.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    To be fair, both of these things happened in the books. Except the Red Wedding with regards to Talisa/Jeyne, but everything else happened. They were following it.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    Oh I'm not implying they didn't happen in the books. But there's a significant experiential difference between the written word and having it dramatically filmed, expertly recreated with special effects, centre-framed and shots lingered upon.

    The showrunners revelled in the sadism and sexual sadism way too much for my tastes.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 5 months ago* (7 children)

    How would you depict a world as low and as violent as ASOIAF without doing that for specific plot moments like that though?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (6 children)

    Just one example?

    The baby being slaughtered by the queens guards (illegitimate offspring of the king) in the first season is a perfect example.

    Harsh. Immoral. Brutal. Gets everything it needs to explain across to the viewer and does it all off camera.

    Shots can also be partial or glimpses instead of lingering and detailed (like the young prince's sexual-sadistic murder of the kind-hearted brothel girl).

    Whole series is a sadists wet dream.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Just wanted to say I've felt the exact same way about violence in movies/shows too. It's not that I want it removed, it's that it must matter to the plot. Not just be a prop for fan service.

    You do a better job of explaining it

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 5 months ago* (2 children)

    To be fair, we didn't literally see the kids that Theon's henchmen killed being killed. Only their charred bodies.

    Shots can also be partial or glimpses instead of lingering and detailed (like the young prince’s sexual-sadistic murder of the kind-hearted brothel girl).

    I don't see why you find that somehow more acceptable than the charred kids that Theon killed in the way the show presented it.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    I don't, I was giving another example of a lingering and detailed shot that didn't need to be to serve the story. Maybe I could've been clearer.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 5 months ago*

    No, I thought you pinpointed them as acceptable ways to portray brutality in a world like GOT

    Out of interest, do you think people who enjoy slasher/gore-horror shows/films are sadistic? Or that people who write them are?

    Like a webcomic I once read is Crossed. Have you heard of it? It's incredibly violent and could never be a TV show. It's about a zombie-type virus that makes people into psychopathic, deranged killers. The sign of infection of a rash in the shape of a cross on their faces (although its also very quick, like in 28 days later).

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  • [–] -2 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    you sound like the kind of person who enjoys laugh tracks

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago
    • Curious question to drive discussion.
    • Earnest response.
    • Earnest follow-up query.
    • Earnest response.
    • Some random chimes in with an insult.

    Comments like yours are one reason Lemmy is growing so slowly.

    Gonna do my part and block your existence from my feed.

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