Incest?
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meekorouse — 9 years ago(December 27, 2016 08:46 PM)
Yes, that is one of the key plot lines of the Game of Thrones.. the illicit relationship between Jaime & Cercei and her children. If you are binge watching the marathon on HBO (or elsewhere) then you will see how the secret relationship effects others in the coming seasons.. and what the Lannisters do to people that pursue that information.
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snepts — 9 years ago(December 27, 2016 08:54 PM)
Thanks. It just caught me a little off-guard.
That's one thing I don't like about GotT. It seems to push the envelope only for the titillation effect. It's sumptuously mounted (pun intended), but is it really that interesting? It's a long string of rapes and battles and blood-shed and back-stabbing. Not much to write home about.
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ChrisOlliYo — 9 years ago(December 28, 2016 01:06 AM)
I think the concept of the show is to depict every possible romantic relationship that ever exists in reality, so I think it's not really pushing the envelope because it's already there. However, like you said, the problem of this show is that it focuses too much on inhumane behaviors which could leave a bad taste in viewers' mouth.
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Krypteia1 — 9 years ago(December 28, 2016 09:21 PM)
Thanks. It just caught me a little off-guard.
That's one thing I don't like about GotT. It seems to push the envelope only for the titillation effect. It's sumptuously mounted (pun intended), but is it really that interesting? It's a long string of rapes and battles and blood-shed and back-stabbing. Not much to write home about.
Are you basing that assessment off of a few episodes of the first season? Because from your OP, it sounds like you just started watching the show.
If that's the case, then please keep watching, and stay off the message boards until you're caught up. There are several defining, jaw-dropping moments in the story and they're really best experienced without hype or advanced knowledge.
Personally I think GoT takes quite a bit of time to hook some viewers, and because the world of GoT is so vast and the show puts the onus on the viewer to pay close attention it requires a real time and attention commitment.
But after the show establishes the players, the game and the rules, it becomes one of the best TV shows of all time, easily. For what it's worth, the "twincest" wasn't invented for the TV show, it's a part of the original books and has a real impact on the narrative.
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kellydofc — 9 years ago(December 29, 2016 03:33 PM)
G. R. R. Martin has said this story is based on the War of the Roses and Renaissance politics. If you know anything about that time then you know that there was a VAST amount of rapes, battles and backstabbing and all the bloodshed that comes with those historically speaking. There are few things bloodier than histories about that time period.
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CharlesTheBold — 9 years ago(December 28, 2016 01:25 PM)
The relationship caused trouble because it messed up the rules of inheritance whether Joffrey was the real king was based on whether or not people thought Robert Baratheon was his father. It would still have caused trouble even if Jaime was just some random lover, rather than Cirsei's brother. The incest just made the story more lurid.
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Viltrumite — 9 years ago(December 29, 2016 02:49 AM)
It's actually better that Cersei had kids with her brother than some other guy. At least the Jaime/Cersei offspring's looks can be waved away with "They take after their mother". If their father was some
other
man that Cersei was knocking off, then their looks would be extremely suspicious.