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How would you depict a world as low and as violent as ASOIAF without doing that for specific plot moments like that though?
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.
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
To be fair, we didn't literally see the kids that Theon's henchmen killed being killed. Only their charred bodies.
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.
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.
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).
you sound like the kind of person who enjoys laugh tracks
Comments like yours are one reason Lemmy is growing so slowly.
Gonna do my part and block your existence from my feed.