Copious brothel scenes! Brawny lords who have never even heard of the concept of "her pleasure! Now don't get me wrong — I'm all for a good sex scene that tells us something about someone.
Yes, the sex scenes serve the overall purpose of conveying to the audience the impression that the GoT fantasy world is one of sexual hedonism. And I'm particularly fond of randy Peter Dinklage. But I am not down when gratuitous scenes of sexual shenanigans or SOSS, for short get in the way of storytelling — this is a one hour series, after all, and we have four more books' worth of storyline to get through.
Let me summarize my eye-rolling disdain of time-sucking tits and ass for fans and noobs alike by recapping just one of the alarming four SOSS in a recent episode: We cut to a charming, Zagat-rated seaside brothel, owned by Littlefinger, one of the King's councilmen — we see one naked prostitute, boobs-a-swingin', entertaining a paying customer. But wait, there's a second prostitute involved! Then we see that this menage a trois is being watched through a peephole by another customer, who's receiving some vigorous fellatio from another prostitute — and then we see that this pair is actually being watched through a second peephole by the brothel's proprietor, Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish.
Yes, we're talking meta-peepholery. Bet you didn't even know that was a thing. And was it crucial to any plot in any way? Not at all! I must also make mention of another particularly ludicrous SOSS from season one, a scene that makes the aforementioned Caligula-esque scene look like nothing more than a saucy French postcard. In a scene that hardcore fans are sure to remember, Littlefinger delivers a rather lengthy monologue while two hookers are practicing their O-face skills on each other with utmost dedication, humping each other the way the Barefoot Contessa's hands work a succulent lump of wet dough.
To be fair, these two scenes are absolutely the most graphic and sexually explicit scenes in GoT history, but HBO didn't allow me enough time to recover or masturbating geeks enough time to tidy up their Kleenex pile before it broke one of its own unwritten rules.
In the episode that included the now infamous peephole brothel scene, we were also treated to not one, not two, but three additional sex scenes. Fans are usually only treated to one "twack-twack-twack" interlude — so this was an unexpected delight, particularly in the scenes' sheer brutism and unpleasantness and incestuousness. The show is all about lesbian sex.
I'm not against sex scenes in TV show, I even hate when we show actors with clothes making love. What I hate is gratuitous sex scenes. For Game of Thrones when I watch the show for the second time I watch the censored version. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.
Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Why is Game of Thrones aimed at such a mature audience? Ask Question. Asked 8 years, 3 months ago. Active 4 years, 3 months ago. Viewed 4k times. The initial sex scene in the tower is as yet the only one I've read, although it's described quite graphically it's written from Bran's perspective and is very naive.
It describes both characters as naked which I don't believe they are in the series, presumably due to contracts but he has no idea what they're doing. Tyrion with the whores in Winterfell where Jamie invites more in. As far as I recall this scene does not exist in the book The scene of Daenerys getting into the bath, again it mentions robes but nothing about nudity Daenerys and Drogo's first night is only briefly hinted at yet we get a graphic sex scene.
I could go on Improve this question. Liath Liath In the book Tyrion was reading in the library but in the TV show they replaced the scene with the whores. It's worth noting that Tyrion's attachment to whores is indeed spelled out in the book, even if there's no graphic sex scenes in there with him.
One of Tyrion's lines in the book is that if he were to join the Black Watch, whores would go begging from King's Landing to White Tower, meaning he spends craptons of money on them. And in the book, you don't need to go into detail about what the brothel and its inhabitants looks like, only that Ned Stark would rather not be there.
In a movie or TV show, you don't have that liberty. I haven't read the books, but I think the producers of the show just recognised that there's a demographic of viewer who loves the swashbuckling-adventure-wizards-warriors type story but who are adults, and are looking for something a bit more grown-up than the Lord Of The Rings type movies.
According to Carl Pyrdum, a doctoral candidate in medieval history at Yale University, it's not too far off: livescience. In addition as others have said there are things in the novels that don't need visual representation, because we have POV perspective, where the show is following the characters without being inside their heads.
Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. System Down System Down Also worth noting, depending where the OP is from, I've heard that there are smaller versions of the books where many sexual contents are cut off.
Here in Brazil, there are a lot of people reading this " Summarized " version without knowing. Ernie Ernie 1 1 silver badge 4 4 bronze badges. Graham Graham 51 1 1 silver badge 1 1 bronze badge.
There are some interesting things that Benioff and Weiss might have done with this role ahem, Lannister honeypot ; instead they just turned her into more grisly fodder for the Red Wedding, the camera focusing very particularly on the repeated stabbing of her pregnant belly.
To what end? Because otherwise the massacre of Robb, his mother, and his entire army would not have been an unhappy enough development? Like Ros, Talisa seems to have been created in large part to be brutally murdered in a manner particular to her anatomy.
Among the more substantial alterations between page and screen has been the ascendance of the Bastard of Bolton as a central figure on the show. In the third book, by contrast, he was a distant, off-screen character about whom awful things were heard, and from whom care packages containing pieces of Theon were occasionally received.
It was at this point, however, that Benioff and Weiss decided Ramsay merited ample screen time, dramatizing at interminable length his torture and eventual castration of Theon. Especially notable was a scene in which two naked beauties one of them Myranda—see below arrived to sexually arouse Theon in preparation for his gelding. Since then, the show has taken every conceivable opportunity to remind viewers that Ramsay is a violent sexual sadist. More on the latter in a moment.
Seen only briefly in seasons three and four, Myranda became a regular, if minor, character in season five. In short, her sole purpose was to make Ramsay even worse , principally as an eager accomplice but also as a potential future victim.
Another example of Benioff and Weiss taking something implicit in the books and making it all-too-thoroughly explicit. Cersei and Jaime in the Sept of Baelor. In the book, Cersei kissed Jaime lightly, he returned the kiss lustily, she briefly pushed back at him out of fear they might be discovered, and then she quickly succumbed to lust herself, begging him to complete the act.
It was a horrible scene—two twins having sex over the corpse of their dead son—but the sex itself was consensual. But that 20 percent changed everything: Suddenly, Jaime—by that point one of the most sympathetic characters on the show—was a rapist. Subsequent comments by the director and performers made pretty clear that this was not the intent of the scene.
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