Actually I'm not sure. I think it was less rapey, but still not something that she actually wanted.
It was still pretty rapey though. In either the book or the show, it's pretty clear that saying "No" was not a realistic option for her.
Actually I'm not sure. I think it was less rapey, but still not something that she actually wanted.
The only way your interpretation works is if you believe that some people are just born innately weaker than others, and have to be made strong by other, stronger people -- in this case by raping them. If you believe that people are all born equal, if you believe that all people are innately capable of great strength, if you have an optimistic and positive view of humanity, if you believe that we all have it within ourselves to overcome great adversity and grow stronger in the face of it, then you will see nothing wrong with Daenerys's story. If you believe that raping women makes them stronger, then yeah, you're gonna have a bad time.
Not to be that guy, but I'm pretty sure Dany's sex with Carl von Dragon is at least semi-consensual in the books.
Which is exactly why it is worth discussing why it is different in the show. Why is the show putting more rape and sexual violence in if the story, presumably, stood fine on its own.
I didn't talk about morality but reality. And I foresaw you not being able to distinguish the two.
Am I annoyed, sad or amused? I just can not decide."Sure, rape is wrong, but let's be real - is it wrong?"
In the course of the above interview, she makes some of the following remarks (transcript from The Mary Sue):
“Yes, so, you know, we spent a long time rehearsing it with Alex [Graves], the director, and myself and Nik and Jack [Gleeson] and you know, of course it’s a very complicated moment for many reasons and what I will say about it is, from my stance as an actor who’s had this character for three years, four years, who knows her intimately…you know you’re standing, as a woman in absolute grief, in pain that she’s never felt before. And you know, she’s staring at the body of her dead son who’s been her sanity and her purpose and she’s joined by her brother who’s also her lover so, you know, we’ve also got bigger problems going on than the ones everyone’s talking about]. And it becomes very messy. And there’s lust and desperation and you know, a need to feel something other than this searing, empty loss. And so that’s where I came from when we were filming. There was this need and it wasn’t right and yet it felt great and yet it wasn’t right and it played out the way it did. And I was really happy with it. I thought it was um, my intention was there and I think people’s reactions are right and opinions are varying.”
(...Q: was this consensual? In the book it was...)
I came from this place of grieving and a need to feel connected and alive and you know, this is the only other person, probably the only person she has ever trusted in the world. And she’s shunned Jaime and he’s never stopped loving her and in that moment she’s embracing and she’s rejecting of him in the same breath and you know, if I had not have said “not now, not here,” you know, if there were silence I don’t know how people would have reacted, you know what I mean? But it’s tricky, man, because we could go into this for a long time, I could get personal, we could…you know what I mean? It’s a real f***er of a situation. And I also think, you know, without being too much of a tw*t about it, we’re talking about a show with dragons, incest, babies taken by zombies, you know…
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Am I annoyed, sad or amused? I just can not decide.