Yup. The reason I stopped watching the current season was because of a non canonical rape of a main character. It was...just so disgusting. I'm all for artistic license. After all, art can portray really terrible things in this world in order to convey and enforce a positive and eye-opening message. The way HBO handles rape, though, is simply utilizing and exploiting a very real and terrible problem in this world as a means of garnering ratings and putting on a show - which is, of course, in some senses just as inhumane and gruesome as ancient Romans cheering on gladiators as they hack other people down for sport. I hate how GoT on HBO has resorted to showing incredibly terrible things for the sake of creating a spectacle rather than meaning or even artistic value. Especially in this season, I get the sense that they're trying to amp up the blood and action and women to try and wow me. They put all this hollow nonsense in front of me then expect me to swallow non canonical bs reasons that they try to pass off as symbolic or philosophical when really, it's just putting a long and highfalutin language to back up absolutely ridiculous, careless, and offensive material in front of me to get my attention. Plus, such a high level of terrible things in combination with a low level of good things happening in the show takes away from the "realism" they're going after by dousing the audience in rape, murder, etc. etc. In other words, the show is starting to look simply ridiculous rather than "realistic" or novel in the sense that it doesn't follow conventional happy endings. The real world has good things too. Also, I thought we were in an age civilized enough to handle things like the portrayal of rape with a certain level of discretion.
Anyways, in short, I agree with you lol And that is the end of my off-topic rant.
@allenthomas I think Enter the Dragon would just be awesome. Imagine the fight scenes and the detail you could put into the figures and the architecture.... I'd like to have different famous or indie artists do each fight too. I'd love to see what Akira Toriyama could do with it for example~