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Reddit is triggered by an overly shilled sword shit scene that most fans thought was weak and underwhelming 
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I don't get it. The original show was entirely based around pointless violence and s*x. That's the whole point, isn't it?
Why are they triggered by it now? Isn't this what they wanted?
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they did it offscreen! reeeeeeeeee
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I never really watched GoT but sometimes I'd visit friends and they'd have it on.
I remember walking into their house one day to hang out and they were watching it. The scene depicted some dude tied to a torture wheel. Two naked chicks walk up to him, untie him, and start fricking him. Then this angry dude comes in and cuts his peepee off.
IMO the overly gratuitous s*x and violence is one of the reasons I never bothered watching it in the first place. But I figured that was what people were watching it for. If you didn't want violence, surely you could watch just about any other fantasy show?
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The first seasons had a lot of political intrigue and cool action scenes too, but yeah, HBO putted a bunch of gratuitous s*x scenes which aren't on the books just to harvest the largest audience possible. However as the series progressed and became more popular, there are fewer and fewer s*x/nudity scenes, I think the last couple of seasons barely had any.
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Coincidentally, those are also the lowest rated seasons.
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Huh. I wonder if the censors got to them or if they just thought it didn't have wide appeal.
Did they tune down the s*x AND violence, or just the s*x and left the violence cranked all the way up?
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Just s*x, violence got worse (a woman and her baby ripped apart by dogs, a girl burned alive screaming for her parents).
It wasn't because of censorship, it was because the actresses got more famous and had more bargaining power with showrunners, they didn't want to do nudes anymore. It was also because those scenes were always pointless filler to attract audience so their purpose was accomplished.
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The show ran from 2011 to 2019, somewhere in the middle there we starting shifting towards being more prudish about s*x again, and the stars didn't want to do s*x scenes anymore after becoming household names.
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That scene was so silly lmao, Helaena neurodivergentally pointing out the kid, the stupid sound effect of the kid's head being cut-off. Helaena interrupting her mom and Kingsguard s*x session.
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God being a Kingsguard must be so cushy.
Just stand around and bully lesser knights around and kill people who aren't allowed to defend themselves on the whims of kings and queens.
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What show is this?
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The Legend of Kyrandia: Hand of Fate
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Never heard of it
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It's very old.
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House of the dragon
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Never heard of it
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