The Game of Thrones Prequel Suggests HBO Didn’t Learn a Thing From How It Ended

“Oh, you thought Game of Thrones had too much violence against women? What if we start the spinoff with a forced medieval C-section?”

the violence against women that is inherent in a patriarchal system

,” but there’s so much violence in the show that it ceases to convey much of anything beyond the idea that this is a brutal and ugly world. It’s not enough to tell us that a notorious brigand is nicknamed “the crab feeder” because of how he disposes of his enemies. We get loving shots of men being nailed to stakes at low tide and screaming as crabs begin to nip at their flesh, next to picked-clean skeletons with crustaceans oozing from their eyeholes.

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