But the scene in this latest episode which featured a fully clothed Peter Littlefinger monologuing while he ordered two naked women (because he owned them) to fuck each other struck me as being completely gratuitous.
OMG, it was so outrageously gratuitous it made me laugh at first! But then it went on FOREVER.
just adding naked-women-without-power-in-the-narrative to the background of scenes doesn't really liven up them up for me.
Apart from anything else, it's really tacky! It reminds me of nothing so much as "sexy slavegirls" on Star Trek or other dodgy sci-fi. Except this is HBO, so of course it's way more explicit.
I know that HBO has its own set of content rules that allows for more graphic, sex, violence, and language but, god damn, just because they can doesn't mean they should.
ITA, and why not do interesting things with the new freedom the writers have re. nudity and language on cable? The way things are done on GoT it's clearly for the titillation of straight guys, as the nudity and sex isn't gender balanced AT ALL. And they overused the doggy style position in the sex scenes in first few episodes to the point where I started to wonder if it was like, a visual motif or something, lol! Why did Jaime/Cersei in the tower look like Drogo raping Dany? Stupidity caused by testosterone poisoning in the writers' room, is my guess. ;)
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Date: 2011-05-31 09:33 pm (UTC)OMG, it was so outrageously gratuitous it made me laugh at first! But then it went on FOREVER.
just adding naked-women-without-power-in-the-narrative to the background of scenes doesn't really liven up them up for me.
Apart from anything else, it's really tacky! It reminds me of nothing so much as "sexy slavegirls" on Star Trek or other dodgy sci-fi. Except this is HBO, so of course it's way more explicit.
I know that HBO has its own set of content rules that allows for more graphic, sex, violence, and language but, god damn, just because they can doesn't mean they should.
ITA, and why not do interesting things with the new freedom the writers have re. nudity and language on cable? The way things are done on GoT it's clearly for the titillation of straight guys, as the nudity and sex isn't gender balanced AT ALL. And they overused the doggy style position in the sex scenes in first few episodes to the point where I started to wonder if it was like, a visual motif or something, lol! Why did Jaime/Cersei in the tower look like Drogo raping Dany? Stupidity caused by testosterone poisoning in the writers' room, is my guess. ;)