Welcome to America! Glad you came!
Meanwhile, if it bugs you don’t watch it.
Just thought I’d drop back in and see how the thread is going, surely this topic is pretty much exhausted by now…
Oh Dear God!!!! My eyes!!!!! It burns!!!!!!! Gahhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!
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So, we’re only allowed to be passive consumers who either love something totally or don’t watch it at all? We’re not allowed to enjoy something and feel it can be improved?
Are you sure a geek site is the best place for you?
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The worse thing is that everything in Game of Thrones is false! We want real sex and death! I expect the next iteration be a reality show.
I admit it’s been a while since I read those stories, but weren’t Littlefinger’s prostitutes basically wage slaves?
Well, well, well… This topic really inspires a lot of people to comment. 506 posts is already something. Please correct me if I’m wrong, but does the author say:
- Female nudity is okay, when featured by a three-dimensional main character,
- Male nudity is not put on screen often enough,
- Nude extras do not contribute to the story or general portrayal of the fantastic setting and are shown way too often,
- Most of the female nudity shown is unneccessary,
- Male full front nudity is underrepresented,
- Nudity is a kind of reward for not switching off,
- The show appeals to perverts by showing all this nudity,
- Well groomed crotches are historically inaccurate?
There are quite some points, that I do not get. Why do you blame the producers? Why not GRRM? After all, he wrote this stuff and I guess he is pretty okay with the screening.
I think, that nude extras do very well contribute to the story. By showing them the viewer gets not only a reward, but also gets to know the general feeling of ruggedness, treachery, moral decay and filthyness in Westeros better.
Well groomed crotches may not be historically accurate, but they do not have to be, because this is not the history channel, this is fiction (and contemporary aesthetic expectation).
After all I guess, this show is what you get when you try to mash up pulp fiction, a little gore and porn chic into something entertainig.
The general problem seems to be the expectation of the viewer. The internet has spoiled us all. A little nudity is not enough anymore. We want loads of it. A little cruelty is not enough. It must be over-the-top-crazy. That’s the problem: us.
And I guess we should be happy, that the French did not shoot the series (or maybe not).
So, a show whose entire plot is driven by a cultural construct that exploits the male body to the tune that thousands of them are slaughtered (in the show, and hundreds of millions in real life) and this writer focuses on boobs? Is she wearing blinders!? It’s ok to watch a show about the wholesale slaughter of millions of men, but it’s not ok to put a couple boobs in it? It’s ok to watch a show that promotes male-body exploitation, but not one that demonstrates female-body exploitation. Naked hypocrisy indeed.
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The author did not say #7 - she quoted a producer who said that. So let’s be clear, in HBO’s own view their targeted demographic is perverts in their own words.
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Did you read the comments before posting, or are you too busy boycotting Mad Max?
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Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
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Welcome red pill wonder.
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GRRM isn’t the one who determined what nudity ended up on screen. There are plenty of scenes in the books where guys got nude, including one in which Sansa found herself repulsed by the sight of Tyrion’s naked body (which was described in some detail).
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It’s time for Dragons and a… Err… Change of pace.
Behold, a proposed 210 foot tall sculpture of a dragon to be built in wales!! No!!! I am not joking!!
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It’s not wearing any clothes!
As a fan of the books but not the series, thank you. Also, have to add, would it be better if the women were raped while wearing more clothing?
I don’t totally “dig” the notion that the nudity sends the message that women are good for nothing more than decoration, especially not on a show that has characters like Brienne of Tarth, because if you want the message that that’s what women are for, watch a football game.
Anyway. Having said that, I also find it distasteful that there’s so much nudity. Again, I don’t see that it sends me the message that y’all aren’t good for anyhting other than looking at, but doesn’t it also send a message that hurr durr, there’s no way all these dudes are going to watch this nerd show if they don’t get to see bewbs, coz dudes are dum (a sentiment oft stated in this thread imho.) The message can be sent that we’re in a brothel without seeing nudity, surely, just as we can send the message that there’s a brutal battle going on without seing the actual brutality.
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So we’re only allowed to be exactly like you? This site is primarily characterized by its absolute uniformity of opinion?
You can do whatever you want. This was not an essay about improvement. It was an essay about being oppressed by the existence of something the author does not approve of, rather like Mike Huckabee having his belief in God oppressed by the very existence of gay marriage.
My overall point is that you do not have a right to go through life living in a world that never gives you offense. You do, however, have the right to walk away from that which offends you. If you choose not to do so, that is on you. Is that a point that geeks are opposed to?
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